Even though “The Big Bang Theory” beat “American Idol” in 8-8:30PM timeslot last week, the average for the entire “Idol” episode–an hourlong affair–still topped the rating for CBS’ flagship comedy.<\/p>\n
FOX, therefore, could realistically claim “Idol” maintained its Thursday dominance.<\/p>\n
That may not be true this week. According to the fast nationals, “Big Bang” tied the “Idol” hourlong average with a 5.4 adults 18-49 rating. On a half-hour basis, the CBS show cleanly defeated “Idol,” which only mustered a 4.8 for its first portion.<\/p>\n
“Big Bang,” in fact, even won the head-to-head viewership game, scoring 16.0 million against the 15.5 million for “Idol.” For the hour, “Idol” managed a 17.0 million average.<\/p>\n
While a loss to “Big Bang Theory” is rough at this point in the season, there was still some good news for “Idol” and FOX. Despite dropping massively on a week-to-week basis for this Wednesday’s airing, Thursday’s “Idol” actually held relatively steady in comparison to last week’s show. The series has definitely lost a lot of spark, but at least there are signs the nosedive is slowing.<\/p>\n
Against repeats of “Person of Interest” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” and an episode of low-rated “30 Rock” instead of usual competitor “The Office,” new series “The Finder” better retained its “Idol” lead-out, delievering a series-best 2.9 rating and 8.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n