January 29, 2011 08:59 AM PDT

Fringe Repeats As Friday Ratings Champ

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Fox’s Fringe remains alive and well in its “Friday death slot,” topping the night for a second straight week in the coveted 18-49 demo, with a 1.9 rating.

Fringe shared the No. 1 demos honor with the 10 o’clock helping of Dateline NBC, which also won its time period in total viewers (netting 7.74 million).

With The CW bumping Smallville and Supernatural in favor of Vampire Diaries/Nikita encores, the only fresh fare Fringe faced was the first hour of Dateline (1.6 rating) and ABC’s Primetime: What Would You Do? (1.3).

Speaking of the TVD and Nikita repeats, they added 1.3 million and 1 million viewers to their Thursday tallies, respectively.

A repeat of CSI: NY was the night’s most watched program, copping 8.2 million total viewers.



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Comments (32)

  • i guess the CW is majorly kicking themselves now

    Comment by jess – January 29, 2011 09:02 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • It really doesn’t matter. It isn’t like there’s going to be one less episode of SV and SN. It just means one less repeat later on in the season.

      Comment by AJ – January 29, 2011 12:44 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Yeah, oh my God. What a disaster for CW. They didn’t even have to pull their Friday lineup to help their Thursday shows, since the Thursday shows did OK against American Idol.

    Comment by Sam – January 29, 2011 09:06 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I hope the show’s strength on Friday’s is enough to convince Fox to get us a fourth season of “Fringe.”

    Comment by amy – January 29, 2011 09:07 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • According to Ausiello: a sure bet.

      Comment by Rush – January 31, 2011 08:07 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Thank the TV Gods!!!!! FRINGE IS (HOPEFULLY) HERE TO STAY!!!!!!

    Comment by cody – January 29, 2011 09:21 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Go Fringe, I knew you could do it!

    Comment by Sarah – January 29, 2011 09:22 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Yeah! Fringe! It’s my favorite show. I’m glad its holding its own. please renew for many seasons Fox!

    Comment by Matt – January 29, 2011 09:24 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I love Fringe and this season is very good..; It’s better and better and better! Go Fringe!!

    Comment by Buborek – January 29, 2011 09:34 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I highly doubt the numbers for TVD and Nikkit are “new fans” not with the explosion on twitter after they premiered.

    The CW is run by idiots.

    Comment by Nerwen Aldarion – January 29, 2011 10:05 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Such a good episode yesterday! Fox HAS TO renew Fringe.

    Comment by em – January 29, 2011 10:10 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I hope Fringe gets a fourth season now! I’m not going to be able to relax about it until they announce it officially.

    Comment by Mikaylah – January 29, 2011 10:32 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Way to go Fringe! Hopefully it’ll hold up in the coming weeks against ‘new’ fare. It’s fans are very loyal so I’m crossing my fingers. Go Fringe!

    Comment by Kiddoo – January 29, 2011 10:33 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • We knew Fringe could do it. It’s such a great show

    Comment by Nalex – January 29, 2011 11:34 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Why are people acting like Fringe achieved some major accomplishment? It held its ratings against no new competition, just an hour of Dateline… celebrate when/if it keeps all its ratings against a new Supernatural next week people! I do think there are enough viewers to go around though.

    BTW, I’d like to know how much of TVD/Nikita’s ratings came from the Chicago and Baltimore markets since pre-emptions in those areas is supposedly what led CW to doing the encore of these episodes. Of course we’ll never get that info and CW will never admit that it made a mistake… bunch of jerks.

    Comment by Marc – January 29, 2011 01:04 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • Because when you are on the bubble- every week counts. When you’ve had as little good news as Fringe fans have, you take what you can get. Why Supernatural fans feel the need to constantly be negative on every “Fringe is hanging on” story, I don’t know. But it makes you guys look really petty and mean.

      Comment by Week by week.... – January 29, 2011 01:27 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

      • Supernatural fans are deluded and full of themselves. No reality check will make them realize they’re the only (small bunch) ones who care about their 2 million viewers show. Fringe has twice more viewers and won’t be affected by this little show.

        Comment by Shannon – January 30, 2011 10:31 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

        • Don’t speak in generalities, not all SPN think that way. In fact a good large portion of them are also Fringe fans. Like me.

          Comment by raelee514 – January 30, 2011 11:36 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I went to comments to ask if any of these numbers could be people who thought they were DVR-ing Smallville and Supernatural but ended up inadvertently getting VD and Nikita. Would this result in higher-skewing numbers than actually watched the episodes?

    However, I ended up laughing at your comment rules. Nicely done from one SPN fan who could use a good laugh.

    Comment by Dahne – January 29, 2011 01:10 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • yeah i DVRed supernatural and got nikita instead.

      Comment by SARA – January 29, 2011 01:53 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • As I was watching last night’s episode again, I couldn’t help but notice- does anyone else think that the Massive Dynamic scientist, the one administering the polygraphs and showing Nina the books, looks like a slightly heavier version of Ausiello?

    Comment by alice – January 29, 2011 01:33 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • Wow…yes, I totally see that. Ausiello, you need to cameo as his little brother! Once you’re done on Cougar Town, of course.

      Comment by John – January 30, 2011 08:39 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Very good news!

    Comment by Ben Phelps – January 29, 2011 02:21 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Week by week, I am not trying to be petty and/or mean, I said that I think there are enough viewers for both shows to survive… I’m not sure how that makes “us guys” (apparently I speak for all Supernatural fans now?) petty and mean. I was asking an honest question, I didn’t realize the hardships Fringe has been having because I don’t watch the show. Maybe you need to be a bit less sensitive?

    Comment by Marc – January 29, 2011 03:53 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Yay! This is such good news. It’s so great to see a good show come out on top, once in a while.

    Fringe has a terrific cast, especially Anna Torv, John Noble and Joshua Jackson. It has great cinematography, the concept is wonderfully complex, and the scripts are getting better and better. I’m just hoping it will be rewarded for its virtues.

    Comment by Jen – January 29, 2011 05:11 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Holding the episodes of Smallville and Supernatural back a week kind of makes sense. Nikita and TVD faced Idol for the first time and airing them on Friday gave viewers an extra shot to see the midseason premiere, in case you missed it. Apparently both shows got preempted in Chicago and Baltimore on Thursday as well, so the ratings were going to be down as well. I’d much rather have the final season of Smallville be (or SEEM to be) stretched out a little bit longer anyways. :)

    Comment by Dan – January 29, 2011 07:32 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Matt, could you give the ratings in actual viewers? I’ve no idea what a 1.9 rating means. Thanks.

    Comment by JScout – January 30, 2011 06:06 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Yeah for Fringe, I really want a season four, though yikes at this weeks episode for various reasons :-) .

    I do want to see what happens when Supernatural finally airs though, the CW in their very astute(not) move basically gave away all their Friday ratings momentum with their Nikita at 9 move. I’m not expecting SPN to have numbers as high as Fringe, not as many people even know about the CW as they do Fox, but I do expect Supernatural to hold it’s own and I want to see that happen.

    Not as much as I want to see the actual SPN episode, but I want to see it happen.

    Comment by raelee514 – January 30, 2011 11:39 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Frankly, I am sorry Supernatural and Fringe are up against each other, as I love both shows…!!!! Really!!!

    Comment by Vanny – January 30, 2011 11:43 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I am sorry that Supernatural and Fringe are up against each other too. Both are great shows and deserve more respect than the Friday night “kiss of death” timeslot. However, my loyalities fall with SPN because I have loved it from the first episode. That doesn’t mean I want Fringe to fail though. I am hoping both shows get picked up for next year.

    Comment by Lila – January 31, 2011 06:30 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • All well and good, but Fringe isn’t seeing real competition. Dateline is cheap NBC filler, and “What would you do?” is the same for ABC. It’s also manipulation TV that runs completely counter to Fringe’s demographic. CSI: NY is the worst of the CSI series’ and likley won’t see the light of day next year. Sweeps with be the real story when the CW brings back it’s genre shows in earnest.

    Comment by Rush – January 31, 2011 08:28 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • But I have to say that this is probably the best time-slot when compared to the face to face it had with a rejuvinated Grey’s.

      Comment by Rush – January 31, 2011 08:30 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

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