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Episode 2.08 Ratings Update Posted 18th November 2008
We have some more information on the ratings of last night's episode. The show dipped from last week's phenomenal ratings, pulling in 9.70 million viewers and placing 2nd behind ABC's Dancing with the Stars. The show got a 3.7/10 rating. How I Met Your Mother, however, managed to tie first place in adults 18-49 with Dancing with the Stars, attracting 9.84 million viewers.
Episode 2.08 Ratings Posted 18th November 2008
We have some information on the ratings of last night's episode. The show scored impressively again, grabbing a 6.0/9 rating. This is up 20% from what How I Met Your Mother got in the same slot last year.
How I Met Your Mother dropped slightly to 5.9/9, Two and a Half Men pulled in a 9.0/13 rating, with Worst Week losing much of Two and a Half Men's ground and getting only a 6.2/9 rating.
Episode 2.07 Ratings Update Posted 11th November 2008
We have some more information on the ratings of last night's episode. The show broke the 10 million viewers mark for the first time, and placed first in the adult 18-49 demographic with a 3.9/10 rating. The episode was watched by 10.01 million viewers.
Episode 2.07 Ratings Posted 11th November 2008
The first ratings for last night's episode are out. The show got a 6.1/8 rating, placing it second behind ABC's behemoth Dancing With The Stars. How I Met Your Mother then posted a 5.8/9 rating, again placing it second.
Two and a Half Men, the hit show from BBT co-creator Chuck Lorre, pulled a 9.0/13 rating finishing in second place. Worst Week, which follows Two and a Half Men, lost a lot of the audience and managed only a 5.7/9 rating.
BBT pulls largest audience ever Posted 4th November 2008
The Big Bang Theory pulled its largest audience ever yesterday. CBS have released the following statement:
THE BIG BANG THEORY delivered its largest audience ever and matched its best adult 18-49 and adult 25-54 ratings while HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER posted season high adult 18-49 and adult 18-34 ratings, according to preliminary Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Monday, Nov. 3.
At 8:00 PM, THE BIG BANG THEORY was first in adults 18-49 (3.8/10), adults 18-34 (3.0/09), second in households (6.1/09), viewers (9.90m) and adults 25-54 (4.5/10, -0.2 behind ABC). BIG BANG THEORY delivered series highs in households and viewers, matched series highs in both adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 and a season high in adults 18-34.
Episode 2.06 Ratings Update Posted 4th November 2008
We have more info on the ratings of last night's episode. As we reported earlier, CBS faced stiff competition from NBC's Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash special, pushing them into 3rd place overall. The Big Bang Theory, and How I Met Your Mother, however, fared very well placing 1st in the adults 18-49 demographic. HIMYM was tied for 1st, while The Big Bang Theory was the outright winner.
The Bang Theory Viewers: 9.90 million (2nd), Adults 18-49: 3.8/10 (1st).
How I Met Your Mother Viewers: 9.56 million (2nd), Adults 18-49: 4.1/10 (1st).
Episode 2.06 Ratings Posted 4th November 2008
The rating for last night's episode, "The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem" are out. The show did well, out shining How I Met Your Mother, which succeeds the show, by quite a wide margin. The show was second with a 6.1/9 rating, while HIMYM slumped to third with a 5.7/8 rating. NBC posed stiff competition to CBS with a special Saturday Night Live airing, this pushed CBS to third place for most of the night, BBT help up comparatively well.
ChuckLorre.com has the vanity card from last night's episode, which was again censored by CBS. View vanity card at ChuckLorre.com.
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Episode 2.05 Ratings Posted 21st October 2008
The ratings for last night's episode are out. The show was ranked #2 with a 5.8/9 rating, just a little lower than lead-out 'How I Met Your Mother' which scored 5.9/9.
Episode 2.04 Ratings Update Posted 14th October 2008
As we reported earlier, The Big Bang Theory got higher ratings than How I Met Your Mother last night, now we've got the exact numbers for you.
The Big Bang Theory – Viewers: 9.36 million (#2), A18-49: 3.6/10 (#2)
How I Met Your Mother – Viewers: 9.14 million (#2), A18-49: 3.8/10 (#2)
How I Met Your Mother was more popular with the 18-49 demographic, but they had the same share so this can be explained by the fact there are more 18-49'ers tuning in at 8:30 than 8 o'clock. The Big Bang Theory did get 220,000 more viewers than How I Met Your Mother, at a time when there are fewer viewers about, that is good news.
This is a very big achievement for The Big Bang Theory, beating a show that follows it in a better slot isn't easy. Ratings for The Big Bang Theory did fall when it swapped slots with HIMYM, but now the tables have turned and TBBT is showing it's true strength by outshining the show without the advantage of the better slot.
Episode 2.04 Ratings & Vanity Card Posted 14th October 2008
The ratings for last night's episode are out, and the show beat How I Met Your Mother! The Big Bang Theory got a 5.8/9 rating, while How I Met Your Mother - which follows The Big Bang Theory - scored just 5.5/9. Both shows placed 2nd in their slot, behind ABC behemoth Dancing With The Stars.
You can view the vanity card for the episode at ChuckLorre.com.
Episode 2.03 Ratings & Vanity Card Posted 7th October 2008
The ratings for Episode 2.03 are out, and the show did well. It got a 5.9/9 rating, along with How I Met Your Mother, for the 8-9 hour. They were second in their slots, behind ABC's Dancing with the Stars.
Two and a Half Men continued to do well, but was again second behind the hugely popular Dancing, it mustered a 9.2/13 rating.
You can view the vanity card from last night's episode at ChuckLorre.com.
Episode 2.02 Ratings, Vanity Card Posted 30th September 2008
The ratings for last night's episode are out, the show ranked 2nd in its slot with 8.71 million viewers and a 3.3/9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic.
The vanity card for last night's episode can be found here on ChuckLorre.com, there are 2 as it was censored on TV for reasons quite clear.
Episode 2.01 Ratings Press Release Posted 23rd September 2008
CBS IS NUMBER ONE IN ADULTS 18-49 AND ADULTS 25-54 ON THE FIRST MONDAY OF THE 2008-2009 SEASON
CBS Wins Premiere Monday in Adults 18-49 For the First Time Since 2002.
The Second Season Premiere of "Big Bang Theory" Notches Its Best First Run 8:00 PM Deliveries in Viewers and Adults 18-49.
CBS comedies achieved several high water marks, including BIG BANG THEORY with its most watched 8:00 PM telecast ever, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER with its best ever season premiere in adults 18-49 and TWO AND A HALF MEN with its strongest premiere in adults 18-49 since 2004.
At 8:00 PM, BIG BANG THEORY (P) was second in households (5.7/09), viewers (9.36m), adults 25-54 (4.2/11) and adults 18-49 (3.6/10). This is BIG BANG's best first-run delivery at 8:00 PM in households and viewers, matches the best 8:00PM adults 18-49 delivery and is the second best 8:00 PM adults 25-54 performance.
Episode 2.01 Ratings in Full Posted 23rd September 2008
We have more information on the ratings for last night's episode, "The Bad Fish Paradigm".
It was second in the slot in total viewers and viewers aged 18-49. It was viewed by 9.36 million people, and got a 3.6/10 rating in adults 18-49.
Episode 2.01 Ratings Posted 23rd September 2008
The ratings for the second season premiere of The Big Bang Theory are out. Last night's episode was #2 in its slot (8/7c) and got a 5.6/9 rating. How I Met Your Mother, which followed BBT, increased the rating to a 5.9/9.
Two and a Half Men started off it's 6th season with a 9.0/13 rating, also placing it second.
Episode 1.15 Ratings Posted 7th May 2008
The ratings for Monday's episode are in and they were down on the previous week, the weather playing a large part in the willingness of people stay in at 8PM and watch TV instead of being outside.
The Big Bang Theory (Viewers: #3, 7.56 million; A18-49: #2, 2.8/ 9).
Episode 1.14 Ratings & Vanity Card Posted 30th April 2008
Ratings for episode 1.14 are out and we should be happy that the show seemed to rebound a bit.
The show was watched by 8.16m people giving it a 5.0/08 household rating, in adults 18-49 it got a 3.0/09 rating and with adults 25-54 it got a 3.7/10 rating.
ChuckLorre.com has the episode's vanity card.
We hope to have screencaps for this episode and last week's, but we've not been able to update the site as much as we'd like. We hope to be updating it fully as soon as possible.
Episode 1.13 More Ratings Posted 22nd April 2008
More ratings for last night's episode have been released.
The show was watched by 7.51 million people with a 4.7/8 rating in households which placed it 4th in the slot. The episode got 2.9/08 in adults 18-49 and was second.
Episode 1.13 Ratings Posted 22nd April 2008
The ratings for yesterday's episode are out and the show didn't do very well. It placed 4th in its slot with a 4.6/7 rating. This is another week of falling ratings. The show did fractionally better than a repeat of How I Met Your Mother did in the very same slot this time last year. Is The Big Bang Theory imploding?
We will have screenshots from the episode later and hopefully the vanity card. Right now ChuckLorre.com is down because it has reached it's bandwidth limit.
Episode 1.11 Posted 1st April 2008
Firstly, we're sorry we haven't added screencaps from last night's episode. Our man in Rochester hasn't been able to do them yet, hopefully we'll have them for you later.
ChuckLorre.com has the vanity card and its his 200th!
First look at the ratings, the show was second with 5.6/9. How I Met Your Mother beat it slightly with 5.9/9.
Episode 1.10 Ratings Posted 25th March 2008
The preliminary ratings for last night's episode are in and the show did OK, but as expected Britney Spears on "How I Met Your Mother" left BBT trailing.
The show got a rating of 5.3/9, for adults 18-49 it was 3.4/10 and it was viewed by 8,627,000 people.
How I Met Your Mother scored an entire point higher with 6.3/10 and got 10,622,000 viewers.
Episode 1.09 Ratings: Fast Affiliates Posted 18th March 2008
The fast affiliate ratings are out and The Big Bang Theory did relatively good considering its new timeslot & the effects daylight savings time has on TV viewership.
The show had 9.11 million viewers, 3.7/11 in the adults 18-49 demo, with 5.5/9 over all rating.
This compares to the shows last episode (1.08 The Grasshopper Experiment) which was seen by 9.32 million viewers with a 3.8/8 A18-49 rating and a 5.8/8 over all rating. So while viewer numbers fell, the share actually rose, so more of the TV viewing public were watching the Big Bang Theory than before.
The reasons for the fall in viewership are largely unrelated the show. Daylight savings time means less people are watching TV at night, opting to take advantage of the extra light outside, the new timeslot of 8PM always has fewer viewers than other slots, Dancing with The Stars was on at the same time - a powerful show, and of course any damage the writers strike might have inflicted.
CBS had this to say of last night's ratings: THE BIG BANG THEORY returned with first run episodes, finishing second in households (5.5/09), viewers (9.11m), adults 25-54 (4.3/11) and adults 18-49 (3.7/11). Compared to the program's live plus same day first-run delivery this season, BIG BANG THEORY was up +2% in adults 25-54 (from 4.2/09), +6% in adults 18-49 (from 3.5/09), added +320,000 viewers (from 8.79m +4%).
Episode 1.09 Ratings: First Look Posted 18th March 2008
The first indications of last night's ratings are out, The Big Bang Theory was second in the 8PM slot and got a 5.4/9 rating.
How I Met Your Mother which took Bang's old slot posted a 5.7/9 rating.
We'll have more ratings information later.
Episode 1.01(R): Ratings Posted 20th November 2007
Yesterday marked the first rerun of The Big Bang Theory, a repeat of the Pilot episode. The ratings were obviously down as many fans chose not to watch the rerun.
It was #4 in the slot with a 4.7/7 rating, down from a new episode of How I Met Your Mother at #2 and 5.0/8.
Episode 1.08 Ratings: Fast Affiliates Posted 13th November 2007
The fast affiliates are out and BBT was impressive again.
The show was #2 and viewed by 9.39 million. With adults aged 18-49 it was also #2 and got a 3.8/9 rating.
It built on lead-in How I Met Your Mother by 800,000 viewers and .5 in adults 18-49.
Episode 1.08 Ratings: First Look Posted 13th November 2007
The first look at the ratings for last night's episode are out, yet again it built on its lead-in How I Met Your Mother by a .3 rating giving a 6.1/9 rating. It was second in the slot.
Episode 1.07 Ratings Posted 7th November 2007
The Nielsen ratings were delayed for a long time yesterday so we are quite late in bringing these to you. On to the ratings ... they are quite astonishing.
6.1/9 rating in households, up .6 from How I Met Your Mother.
3.8/9 in the 18-49 demographic, up .4 from How I Met Your Mother.
9.675 million viewers, up 800,000 viewers from How I Met Your Mother.
Episode 1.07 Ratings: First Look Posted 6th November 2007
The fast national ratings are out, The Big Bang Theory scored a 6.2/9 rating in its slot, building on its lead-in "How I Met Your Mother's" 6.0/9.
Episode 1.06 Ratings: Fast Affiliates Posted 30th October 2007
The fast affiliate ratings are out with ratings to be proud of the show was #2 in viewers, with 8.92 million of them, placing #2 with adults aged 18-49 also, garnering a 3.6/9 rating.
The show built on How I Met Your Mother's by 370,000 and a .3 rating in both viewers & adults 18-49.
Episode 1.06 Ratings: First Look Posted 30th October 2007
The first indications of the ratings for last night's episode are out, the show was second in the slot, with a 5.3/8 rating, a .3 increase on lead-in "How I Met Your Mother".
More ratings to follow.
DVR & Internet Ratings Posted 25th October 2007
Over the last few years there has been significant change in the Entertainment Industry, specifically how we watch TV. Many of us are no longer watching shows live on our TVs, we are recording them with our DVRs or getting them on the Internet - from the streaming service offered by CBS to the download services from Apple and Amazon.
USAToday did the maths and found that an extra 540,000 people watch the show on their DVR within 7 days of its original airing.
They also found 911,066 full episodes were watched online and 430,372 clips - this doesn't even factor in iTunes.
Episode 1.05 Ratings: Final Numbers Posted 23rd October 2007
The final ratings for the last night's episode are out and The Big Bang Theory did better than expected.
It got 8.806 million viewers, 5.5/8 in US households and a 3.5/9 rating in adults aged 18-49. It got .30 million viewers more than How I Met Your Mother and built on both HIMYM's household and 18-49 rating by .1.
Episode 1.05 Ratings Posted 23rd October 2007
From the CBS press release:
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER and THE BIG BANG THEORY - each posted significant week-to-week gains in viewers and key demographics, according to Nielsen preliminary live plus same day ratings for Monday, Oct. 22.
THE BIG BANG THEORY was second in households (5.6/08), viewers (8.72m), adults 25-54 (4.2/09) and adults 18-49 (3.5/09). THE BIG BANG THEORY built on its HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER lead-in by +2% in households, +5% in adults 25-54, +3% in adults 18-49 and added +120,000 viewers.
Compared to last week, THE BIG BANG THEORY was up +8% in households (from 5.2/08), +14% in adults 25-54 (from 3.7/09), +13% in adults 18-49 (from 3.1/08) and added +780,000 viewers (from 7.94m, +10%).
Episode 1.05 Ratings: Fast Affiliates Posted 23rd October 2007
More ratings out for last night's episode, the show was second in its timeslot in viewers and viewers aged 18-49, it was watched by 8.72 million people, built on How I Met Your Mother by .12 million viewers and .1 in the 18-49 rating point giving the show a 3.5/9.
Episode 1.05 Ratings: First Look Posted 23rd October 2007
We have the first look at ratings for last night's episode, based on 55 of the top markets in the US, the show got a 5.7/8 rating and was placed second in the slot.
This was quite a bit higher than How I Met Your Mother's 5.4/8.
Ratings are subject to change,we will have more information later in the day which will better reflect how the show fared.
Episode 1.04 Ratings: Final Numbers Posted 17th October 2007
The final ratings for Monday's episode are out and they are less than stellar: 7.94 million viewers, 5.2/8 rating and 3.1/8 rating in the 18-49 demo.
The show did build on How I Met Your Mother in some metrics but was generally flat.
Episode 1.04 Ratings Recap Posted 16th October 2007
This is a new feature on the site called Ratings Recap, each week I will post a condensed and simplified look at the ratings so even I may finally understand them. Here is the ratings recap for last night's episode (1.04 The Luminous Fish Effect).
The ratings from last night's episode (1.04 The Luminous Fish Effect) are out and the show continued to lose some viewers. It was watched by 8.15 million viewers (down from 8.36 last week) which placed it 4th place (behind ABC's Dancing with the Stars, NBC's Chuck & Baseball on Fox). With viewers aged 18-49 the show ranked 3rd behind Dancing with the Stars & Chuck. The show did continue to build on its lead-in How I Met Your Mother but only slightly.
The ratings in full - Viewers 8.15 million, Households: 5.5/8 (#4), 18-49: 3.2/8 (#3).
Episode 1.04 Ratings: Fast Affiliates Posted 16th October 2007
The fast affiliate ratings are out. Last night's episode was watched by 8.15 million people placing it 4th in its slot with households and 3rd with 18-49ers. It got a 3.2/8 rating in 18-49ers and 5.8/8 rating in households.
Episode 1.04 Ratings: First Look Posted 16th October 2007
Early numbers for last night's episode are out. It looks like the show was place #3rd with a 5.8/8 rating but still building on the lead-in How I Met Your Mother.
More to follow.
Episode 1.03 Ratings Posted 9th October 2007
More information on the ratings for last night's episode.
8.36 million viewers (0.33 higher than lead-in How I Met Your Mother), 3.4 rating 8 share in 18-49 demo and it was second in the slot.
Episode 1.03 Ratings: First Look Posted 9th October 2007
The first indications of the ratings for last night's episode are out and look reasonably good.
The show got a 3.4 rating building on How I Met Your Mother's 3.2, placing CBS second in the hour.
Episode 1.02 Ratings Posted 2nd October 2007
More ratings out:
The Big Bang Theory dipped only 5% from its premiere and still built on its lead-in How I Met Your Mother.
The show placed CBS' second in the slot with 5.9/9 and 3.4/8 rating with Adults 18-49, it was watched by 8.58 million people.
The show got 13% more viewers 18-49 than How I Met Your Mother.
Episode 1.02 Ratings: First Look Posted 2nd October 2007
First indications of the second episode ratings are coming out and look reasonably well.
The Big Bang Theory slipped about 8% from last weeks numbers, while Rules of Engagement slipped a weightier 11%. The show had a 3.4 rating in 18-48 demographic, up from its lead-in (How I Met Your Mother) of 3.2; This placed CBS second for the night.
Premiere Ratings - Final Look Posted 26th September 2007
The final ratings are in and The Big Bang Theory did well, beating its lead-in (How I Met Your Mother) by a whopping 1.4 million viewers and beating NBC's Chuck by 0.31 million viewers.
Premiere Ratings - Fast Affiliate Posted 25th September 2007
The fast affiliate ratings are out. The Big Bang Theory was watched by 9.57 million people, was ranked 3 in its time slot and improved 16% on its lead-in (How I Met Your Mother).
3.9% of American households watched it and 9% of American households watching TV watched it.
We've updated our Episode Guide with the ratings.
Premiere Ratings - first indications Posted 25th September 2007
The first indications of the ratings for The Big Bang Theory Pilot/Premiere last night are out and are midly disappointing.
The show built on its lead-in, How I Met Your Mother which has lost a lot of viewers, but was 3rd place in the slot. 6.2% of US households watched Big Bang compared to 5.6% for its lead-in. Its lead-out Two and a Half Men was watched by 9.1% of US households. Rules of Engagement kept 88% of the Two and a Half Men audience.