Ratings Watch: 20/20, Grey’s Anatomy Surge with Huge Episodes
Diane Sawyer’s 20/20: Bruce Jenner –The Interview (already a ratings smash) continues to impress, winning the week ending last Sunday in total viewers (a rarity for newsmagazines).
After three days of playback via DVR and VOD, the 2-hour special gained another 3.6 million viewers, adding up to 20.7 million. The interview also moved up to a 6.8 rating among adults 18-49 (from a 5.2 rating in live+same day) and a whopping 8.3 rating (up from 6.5 in live+same day) in the key news demographic of adults 25-54.
According to ABC, the 20/20 edition is now TV’s highest-ever rated newsmagazine telecast among adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 since Nielsen began reporting live+3 ratings in January 2007.
It was a good week for ABC. The April 24 episode of Grey’s Anatomy, featuring the surprise death of Derek (Patrick Dempsey), jumped up to 12.8 million viewers in live+3–its biggest audience since October 2013. The show also lifted to a 4.2 rating among adults 18-49, its highest young adult number since the season premiere on September 25.
Here is the top 25 total viewer ranker for the week ending April 26, 2015.
|
RANK |
SHOW & NETWORK |
LIVE+3 |
WATCHED |
|
1 |
20/20 ABC |
20.7 |
17.1 |
|
2 |
The Big Bang Theory CBS |
18.6 |
14.6 |
|
3 |
Dancing with the Stars ABC |
14.8 |
13.4 |
|
4 |
Blue Bloods CBS |
13.9 |
10 |
|
6 |
Criminal Minds CBS |
13 |
10.1 |
|
7 |
Grey’s Anatomy ABC |
12.8 |
9.5 |
|
8 |
The Voice (Tuesday) NBC |
12.4 |
11.2 |
|
9 |
Modern Family ABC |
12.3 |
8.9 |
|
10 |
The Voice (Monday) NBC |
12.2 |
10.6 |
|
11 |
Madam Secretary CBS |
12 |
10.5 |
|
13 |
Survivor CBS |
11.9 |
10.2 |
|
14 |
Castle ABC |
11.5 |
8.3 |
|
15 |
The Blacklist NBC |
11.4 |
7.5 |
|
16 |
Scandal ABC |
10.9 |
7.8 |
|
17 |
Hawai’i Five-0 CBS |
10.8 |
8.4 |
|
18 |
60 Minutes CBS |
10.7 |
10.4 |
|
21 |
NCIS CBS |
10.6 |
10.2 |
|
22 |
CSI: Cyber (Tuesday) CBS |
10.5 |
8.4 |
|
25 |
NCIS: New Orleans CBS |
10.4 |
10 |
| Total viewers; in millions |
