Posted:
11:36:13 on February 07 2002
By: Alexander Chase
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
Zap2It has posted the overnight ratings for Wednesday night. The latest first-run ENT episode, "Shadows of P'Jem", held steady in its overnight rating at 5.8/9, marginally up from a 5.7/8 for last week's episode, "Sleeping Dogs." More importantly, ENT reclaimed 4th place for the 8 o'clock (EST) hour though UPN finished in 5th place overall for the night. After That 80s Show's strong premiere, FOX fell to 5th place for 8 o'clock hour with That 80s Show and Grounded for Life scoring an averaged 4.9/9 rating. Not surprisingly, NBC dominated the night.
New episodes of all three of its Wednesday-night shows gave NBC a ratings win for the night as "Ed," "The West Wing" and "Law & Order" averaged a 10.3 rating/16 share. CBS, aided by a "Diagnosis Murder" movie, was second with a 9.1/14, followed by ABC (7.0/11) and FOX (5.6/9). UPN, 4.2/6, beat out The WB, 3.1/5, for fifth place.
An hour-long "My Wife and Kids" won the 8 p.m. hour for ABC with a 9.0/15, followed by "60 Minutes II" on CBS, 8.2/13. "Ed" managed a 6.6/10, while "Enterprise" on UPN finished fourth with a 5.8/9. FOX's comedy duo of "That '80s Show" and "Grounded for Live" averaged a 4.9/9 for the hour, while "Dawson's Creek" brought up the rear for The WB.
To read the original report, check out this page.
UPDATE: According to The Futon Critic's more detailed breakdown of the Wednesday overnight ratings, ENT finished 13th for the night (out of 18 shows) and was edged out in its first half-hour by "That 80s Show", which scored a 5.9/9. However, UPN edged out FOX during the 8 o'clock hour because FOX's average was dragged down by "Grounded for Life", which scored a 5.2/8.
On a side note, in the same article The Futon Critic confirms that the new Joss Whedon science fiction series, "Firefly", has received a commitment of 13 episodes from FOX.
To read the more detailed breakdown of the Wednesday overnight ratings, check out this page.
TrekWeb will post the final ratings for last week's episode, "Sleeping Dogs", as soon as the full set of rating numbers are available.
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