Prime-Time TV Rankings

Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (May 30-June 5) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 277.93 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.

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*--* Program Network Viewers 1 CSI CBS 14.19 2 Dancing With the Stars (Wed.) ABC 13.48 3 CSI: Miami CBS 13.10 4 Without a Trace CBS 12.61 5 Two and a Half Men CBS 12.06

6 Everybody Loves Raymond CBS 11.23 7 48 Hours Mystery (Tue.) CBS 10.69 8 NCIS (9 p.m.) CBS 10.35 9 60 Minutes CBS 10.33 10 Law & Order: Criminal Intent NBC 10.10

11 CSI: NY CBS 10.03 12 NCIS CBS 9.35 13 Miss Universe Pageant NBC 9.19 14 Crossing Jordan (Sun.) NBC 9.14 15 Cold Case CBS 9.11

16 Law & Order NBC 8.95 17 Hit Me Baby One More Time NBC 8.90 18 “Eagles Farewell Tour” NBC 8.41 19 House FOX 8.14 20 20/20 ABC 8.13

21 Lost ABC 8.12 22 Supernanny ABC 7.83 23 Dateline: NBC (Fri.) NBC 7.53 24 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC 7.44 25 48 Hours Mystery (Sat.) CBS 7.39

26 Still Standing CBS 7.38 27 Family Guy FOX 7.35 28 Desperate Housewives ABC 7.30 29 60 Minutes Wednesday CBS 7.15 30 NBA playoffs (Mon.) ABC 7.10

31 According to Jim ABC 6.91 32 Primetime Live ABC 6.84 33 Hell’s Kitchen FOX 6.80 Listen Up CBS 6.80 35 According to Jim (9:30 p.m.) ABC 6.61

36 Law & Order: Trial by Jury NBC 6.55 37 Numb3rs CBS 6.53 38 Tony Awards CBS 6.50 39 Dateline: NBC (Sun.) NBC 6.47 40 George Lopez ABC 6.41

41 The Simpsons (8:30 p.m.) FOX 6.40 42 Blind Justice ABC 6.38 43 Trading Spouses FOX 6.31 44 Will & Grace (8:30 p.m.) NBC 6.29 My Wife and Kids ABC 6.29

46 ER NBC 6.25 47 Grey’s Anatomy ABC 6.24 48 King of Queens CBS 6.23 49 “Charlie’s Angels” ABC 6.18 50 Nanny 911 FOX 6.14

51 Yes, Dear CBS 6.13 52 American Dad FOX 6.09 53 America’s Most Wanted FOX 5.92 54 Crimetime Saturday CBS 5.84 55 Fear Factor NBC 5.73

56 Cops (8:30 p.m.) FOX 5.70 57 Will & Grace NBC 5.69 58 The Simpsons FOX 5.62 59 “Traffic” NBC 5.56 60 That ‘70s Show (9 p.m.) FOX 5.08

61 America’s Funniest Home Videos ABC 5.07 62 Crossing Jordan (Sat.) NBC 5.05 63 JAG CBS 5.02 64 That ‘70s Show (9:30 p.m.) FOX 4.87 65 Dancing With the Stars (Sun.) ABC 4.85

66 That ‘70s Show (8:30 p.m.) FOX 4.77 67 Cold Case (Sat.) CBS 4.69 68 That ‘70s Show (8 p.m.) FOX 4.64 69 WWE Smackdown! UPN 4.62 70 “The General’s Daughter” NBC 4.45

71 Cops FOX 4.43 72 Hope & Faith ABC 4.41 73 “NBA Gametime” (Mon.) ABC 4.32 74 “Glass House” FOX 4.10 75 King of the Hill FOX 4.06

76 8 Simple Rules ABC 4.04 77 Joan of Arcadia CBS 3.87 78 Wonderful World of Disney ABC 3.85 79 Complete Savages ABC 3.82 80 Less Than Perfect ABC 3.81

81 Blue Collar TV (8:30 p.m.) WB 3.52 82 Beauty and the Geek (Wed.) WB 3.17 83 Blue Collar TV WB 3.10 84 Malcolm in the Middle FOX 3.07 85 The O.C. (9 p.m.) FOX 2.94

86 The O.C. FOX 2.84 87 Eve (Tue.) UPN 2.72 88 Beauty and the Geek (Thu.) WB 2.70 89 Gilmore Girls (9 p.m.) WB 2.62 90 Reba WB 2.56

91 All of Us (Tue.) UPN 2.52 92 Britney and Kevin: Chaotic UPN 2.51 93 Steve Harvey’s Big Time WB 2.33 94 7th Heaven (9 p.m.) WB 2.29 95 Smallville WB 2.26

Eve (Wed.) UPN 2.26 97 Girlfriends UPN 2.20 98 7th Heaven (8 p.m.) WB 2.19 99 Gilmore Girls (8 p.m.) WB 2.12 100 Charmed WB 2.07

101 Cuts UPN 2.02 102 Half and Half UPN 1.98 103 Living With Fran WB 1.95 104 One on One UPN 1.88 105 All of Us (Wed.) UPN 1.86

106 What I Like About You (8:30 p.m.) WB 1.79 107 Kevin Hill UPN 1.60 108 What I Like About You WB 1.56 109 “Chill Factor” UPN 1.55 110 Bad Girls Guide UPN 1.49

111 Charmed WB 1.41

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Network averages

Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season.

*--* Network Last week Season to date CBS 8.40 12.72

NBC 7.06 9.65

ABC 6.48 9.87

FOX 5.22 9.85

UPN 2.47 3.33

WB 2.34 3.30

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