CBS tops Friday; 'Dollhouse,' 'Terminator' fall (again)

 Why am I in a graveyard?

UPDATED: Like a slow-motion car accident advanced one frame at a time, Fox's continues its Friday night sci-fi pile-up.

"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and "Dollhouse" both fell for the fourth week in a row.

"Terminator" was down 17% this week in the demo (3.0 million viewers, 1.0 preliminary adults 18-49 rating and 4 share) and "Dollhouse" dropped another tenth (3.5 million, 1.5/5).

In the case of "Terminator," I'm calling it. Time of death: March 7, 9:20 a.m. "Dollhouse" needs to improve, too, but its hill is not nearly as steep. Hurry up, Episode 6. 

NBC's "Friday Night Lights" (3.8 million, 1.2/4) also took a hit this week, while ABC drew a solid number at 9 p.m. with a special "20/20" interview with Siegfried and Roy (8.4 million, 2.0/6).

Most everything else was on par. As usual, CBS' drama block easily won the night (averaging 10.3 million, 2.3/7). 

UPDATE: For those wondering, week two of DVR data showed both "Dollhouse" and "Terminator" improving 29%. That roughly matches the premiere DVR addition for "Dollhouse" while slipping a bit for "Terminator."

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Comments

[Thecolours]

Not really suprised by the ratings. Watchmen stole a huge chunk from Terminator, and Dollhouse's audience.

[Jane]

Could you show the numbers for each CBS show please? Thanks

[Stefan]

these dollhouse nurmbers are really depressing - i love the show, but it seems DOA :(

[James Hibberd]

How about if I just assure you they're not interesting?

ghost - 11.1 2.6 9
flash - 9.8 2.0 6
numbers - 10.0 2.3 7

[Kristina]

I agree with TheColours in regards to Watchmen influencing the overnight ratings.

Most of the TSCC fans were expecting a drop in the overnight ratings this week. TSCC, Dollhouse and Watchmen all appeal to the same group of people. I think it is more that just a coincidence that TSCC has been holding steady all these weeks and suddenly drops significantly the weekend Watchmen opens.

Kevin Reilly was quoted this week saying the advertisers still likeTSCC and that they are still doing well with the c7's. He stated it was too early to make a decision.

Please do not call the shows death until the DVR numbers come in.

[RJ]

Do you have the numbers for Wife Swap?

[Jane]

Thanks. I was mainly interested in seeing if Flashpoint had continued dropping (it didn't).

[roa]

Do you have the numbers of 20/20 at 10pm?

[James Hibberd]

No! I'm not your ratings monkey. I want to go outside today.

[Chris]

Kristina, you have not been paying attention to the ratings. The demo numbers for the four eps of TSCC have been 1.4, 1.3, 1.2, 1.0.

You don't get to call 0.2 a "significant" drop and drops of 0.1 as "holding steady."

Watchmen is not a factor. Boring storylines are.

It's deader than dead.

[Starfe]

gotta love how whedonfans make up a new excuse each week.

[roa]

But there are other things on Friday that are NOT Dollhouse and Terminator.

[RJ]

I agree. It's pretty amusing. :D

[RJ]

Ok

[Thecolours]

Starfe, I'm not a Whedon fan in the least bit.

[James Hibberd]

Gah!

Ok.

Wife Swap: 4.2 mil 1.3 5
20/20 10 p.m.: 7.6 2.0 6

But if somebody asks for "Howie Do It," the answer is no.

[roa]

thank you thank youuuuuuuuu

[BG]

May every show you ever like be cancelled. After the second ep. God bless.

[RJ]

I hope Flashpoint sticks around. I wonder what the ratings would be like if CBS switched Flashpoint and Numbers around.

[Chris]

That's gonna convince folks to try your show.

[Navin R Johnson]

If Friday Night Lights get canceled. I'm pooping on Jeff Zucker's desk.

[TiVotee]

Why would any network think *anything* even vaguely interesting to 15-40 year olds do well on a Friday night. I haven't watched anything "live" on a Friday since I lived with my parents (a lonnng time ago.) Leave Fridays for 'family' shows, and movie events... or really view your numbers with more weight to DVR viewings. Shift that paradigm!

[DB]

for some reasons, Fox forgot the fanboy orgy happening this weekend for the Watchmen and still scheduled original episodes to burn. i hope TSCC has a good series ending...

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Whatever happens to TSCC, you can't really blame it on boring storylines. The pre-holiday break episode was great. There's been one slowish ep since it came back but otherwise it's been pretty good stuff. This past episode was fantastic.

Dollhouse has been pretty hit or miss:
Ep 1: Lame-o
Ep 2: Great
Ep 3: Eh
Ep 4: Pretty good

I think Dollhouse's biggest problem is that the first ep was so bad that a lot of people who watched probably figured it wasn't worth continuing. Some of the mythos that's been intro'd in the next three eps should have been revealed in the first to hook people better. As it was, there was very little reason to care in that first ep.

[The Hutt]

Well, I guess we can agree to disagree, but I'm baffled that you can say Terminator's storylines have been good stuff. There's been almost no action since the return from break-- the Terminator hasn't terminated anything but a bird.

One entire episode was spent at a funeral for characters we don't care about. That ridiculous dream storyline was boring and a trick to boot (but thanks, say the monkey brains, for the one inexplicable and gratuitous shot of Summer Glau walking past camera in a bathing suit). The past two weeks were among the most boring hours of TV I've ever suffered through, and last night's episode was only barely interesting because of the fight-- which didn't include any super robots.

Two unimportant, uninteresting characters fighting until only one survives-- the audience loses either way.

The first ep back from break was really exciting, and the reveal of the T1000 was very cool, but absolutely nothing of interest to our main characters has happened since. It's hard to imagine why John even liked Riley.

Haven't watched last night's Dollhouse yet, but it seems like an exercise in necrophilia to do so. The show never had a shot in this time slot, and nobody at Fox is dim enough to really believe otherwise. I think they made up their minds about this show a long, long time before it ever went on the air.

[Navin R Johnson]

I'll say it again...

If Friday Night Lights get canceled. I'm pooping on Jeff Zucker's desk.

[crash]

Dollhouse stinks. Call it!

[crash]

If Dollhouse was anygood they would not have put it in the Friday slot. Fox was smart to put both those losers on Friday night. They would have been even smarter not to have ever made them! But in the end they are only TV execs, what do they know about TV?

[BeBop]

Dollhouse reeks, starting from the termite infested foundation up to the DOA actives. They'd have to tear it down to the studs to fix it. Get rid of the snuff-film creepiness, turn the Actives into proactive heroes with brains a la Dark Angel or Alias and focus on one Active only - no more mass bathing. Alias was a hit because of a smart and sexy lead actress that men loved and women admired. Dollhouse is a dud because of it's doe eyed and damaged lead victim/actress. Give Echo some personality or the show will wither and die like the flaccid errections of the pudgy creeps who get off on the Rohypnol-porn that is Dollhouse.