BURBANK, Calif. – July 31, 2007 – Paced by more strong numbers for the original summer series "The Singing Bee" and "America's Got Talent," and a winning performance from "Dateline" on Wednesday, NBC averaged a 1.7 rating, 6 share in adults 18-49 and 5.4 million viewers overall for the week of July 23-29, according to "live plus same day" in-home viewing figures from Nielsen Media Research.
NBC had three of the top 10 programs of the week in primetime's key demographic of adults 18-49. "The Singing Bee" ranked #2 (tied), "America's Got Talent" ranked #7 (tied) and the Wednesday edition of "Dateline" was #9 (tied).
In overall total viewers, NBC had the top two programs of the week, with "America's Got Talent" ranking #1 and "The Singing Bee" ranking #2.
Primetime averages for the week of July 23-29 in adults 18-49 were Fox (2.3/8), CBS (1.8/6), NBC (1.7/6), ABC (1.6/5), Univision (1.3/4), CW (0.7/2) and Telemundo (0.4/1). In overall total viewers the weekly averages were CBS (6.3 million), Fox (5.8 million), NBC (5.4 million), ABC (5.0 million), Univision (3.0 million), CW (1.9 million) and Telemundo (1.0 million).
In regular program averages through 45 weeks of the 2006-07 broadcast year, NBC is running within a tenth of a point of last year's average in adult 18-49 rating (2.9 vs. 3.0). Fox is also down a tenth of a point versus last year in regular program averages (3.8 vs. 3.9), ABC is down 6 percent (from a 3.4 at this point last year to a 3.2) and CBS is down 9 percent (from a 3.5 to a 3.2).
NBC highlights for the week of July 23-29:
* On Monday, "Age of Love" attracted its highest ratings in four weeks, up 22 percent in 18-49 versus the prior week.
* On Tuesday, "The Singing Bee" was the #1 show of the night in 18-49, sweeping its time period in every key ratings category. "The Singing Bee" built by 10 percent on the 18-49 rating of its lead-in "America's Got Talent."
* Also on Tuesday, "America's Got Talent" convincingly won its time period in 18-49, total viewers and other key measures, with a 26 percent increase over NBC's 18-49 rating in the slot on the same night last year.
* NBC won Tuesday night in adults 18-49, total viewers and all other key measures, marking the eighth Tuesday in a row that NBC was #1 or tied for #1.
* On Wednesday, Dateline NBC" swept its time period in all key adult demographics, winning its hour in adults 18-49, adults 18-34 and adults 25-54, while "Last Comic Standing" ranked #2 in adults 18-49 and #1 in all key adult male demographics.
* On Sunday, an encore "Law & Order: SVU" won its time period in adults 18-49, adults 18-34, adults 25-54, total viewers and other key measures.
Ratings reflect "live plus same day" data unless otherwise noted. Season-to-date figures are averages of "live plus seven day" data except for the two most recent weeks, which are "live plus same day."
NBC To Broadcast Encore Presentation of "Top Chef 3 Miami" Sat, August 4 at 10:00 – 11:00 P.M. ET/PT
NEW YORK – July 31, 2007 – Bravo's "Top Chef 3 Miami" packs on the calories with a supersized sixth installment that touches on the senses as the remaining 10 chef'testants' compete for immunity and identify ingredients by sight or taste (Wed, Aug. 1 from 10:00-11:15 p.m. ET/PT), with an encore presentation on NBC (Sat, Aug. 4 from 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT). Later, the contenders team-up and work their magic with frozen foods under the watchful eye of guest judge Rocco DiSpirito (Author of "Rocco's Real Life Recipes") who joins the judges' table alongside head judge Tom Colicchio, host Padma Lakshmi and judges Gail Simmons and Ted Allen.
IT'S A BLOGFEST ON WWW.BRAVOTV.COM: Catch "Top Chef 3 Miami" blogs from guest judge Anthony Bourdain (Host of "No Reservations" and Chef at Les Halles, NYC) and Barton G (Chef/Owner of Barton G. Enterprises), as well as Season 2 contestant's Josie Smith-Malave and Marcel Vigneron.
Meet Gracen (Fred Goss), a professional mediator and the voice of reason in the group. His wife, Leila (Faith Ford), has lucrative career as a "house flipper" that undermines Gracen's fragile ego, and his son, Marmaduke (T.J. Miller), is a deadbeat who secretly hatches get rich quick schemes. Then there's Laird (Jerry O'Connell), a womanizing dentist and recent divorcé; self-sacrificing Aubrey (Jerry Minor), father to a brood of kids and husband to a couch potato wife, which forces him to wear the oven mitts in the family; and Dougie (Tim Peper), a newlywed and the new guy still trying to fit in with this tight guy group, whose wife, Cindy (Allison Munn) is a perky muffin-making charmer.
"Carpoolers" stars Fred Goss as Gracen, Faith Ford as Leila, Jerry O'Connell as Laird, Jerry Minor as Aubrey, Tim Peper as Dougie, Allison Munn as Cindy and T.J. Miller as Marmaduke.
Bruce McCulloch ("The Kids in the Hall") is creator and executive producer. Marsh McCall ("Just Shoot Me"), Anthony and Joe Russo ("Arrested Development," "You, Me and Dupree"), Justin Falvey ("Las Vegas"), Darryl Frank ("Las Vegas") and David Miner ("30 Rock") also serve as executive producers.
"Carpoolers" is a production of ABC Studios.
Underwood also stars in the upcoming HBO drama series "In Treatment" (March '08) and will reprise his recurring character of Mr. Harris, opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus, on the Emmy-award winning "The New Adventures of Old Christine." Underwood is currently in post-production on his feature directorial debut, the independent drama "The Bridge to Nowhere" (starring Danny Masterson, Bijou Phillips and Ving Rhames). The film follows four blue-collar twenty-something men from North Pittsburgh who team up with a prostitute to create a high-priced escort service.
In addition, Underwood is producing television programs as well -- the first order of the TLC series "Easy Money" will follow a group of lottery winners in St. Louis, Missouri who went from modest lifestyles to multimillionaire status. He's also co-executive producing the upcoming reality competition "Stage Black" for TV One. His new fiction thriller Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story (Atria/Simon & Schuster, Inc.) just went on sale this summer. Underwood co-authors the detective novel (and first in the planned series) with best-selling author Tananarive Due and her husband, writer Steven Barnes.
"Dirty Sexy Money" stars Peter Krause as Nick George, Donald Sutherland as Tripp Darling, William Baldwin as Patrick Darling, Natalie Zea as Karen Darling, Glenn Fitzgerald as Rev. Brian Darling, Samaire Armstrong as Juliet Darling, Seth Gabel as Jeremy Darling, Zoe McLellan as Lisa George, with Jill Clayburgh as Letitia Darling.
"Dirty Sexy Money" was created by Emmy-nominated Craig Wright ("Brothers & Sisters," "Lost," "Six Feet Under"). Wright, Greg Berlanti ("Brothers & Sisters," "Everwood"), Josh Reims ("Felicity," "Everwood"), Oscar-nominated Matthew Gross ("Day Break") and Bryan Singer ("House," "Superman Returns," "The Usual Suspects") are executive producers. The series is produced by ABC Studios and will premiere on September 26, 2007.
