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Dick Clark Still Rockin' Ratings
Dick Clark won in absentia.
With the 75-year-old Clark hospitalized due to a stroke, the TV icon's annual New Year's Eve bash on ABC went on without its namesake host--and stiff-armed would-be party crasher Carson Daly.
In head-to-head competition in the 10-11 p.m. hour, Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve 2005, with Regis Philbin on ball-watching duty in Times Square in place of Clark, outdrew NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly by 3.4 million viewers, per Nielsen Media Research.
New Year's Rockin' Eve entertained 7.9 million stay-at-home revelers, good for 40th place. It was the special's most watched prime-time outing in three years.
Daly's attempt to play Dick Clark for the Total Request Live generation was witnessed by an MTV-esque 4.5 million (79th place).
As clocks struck midnight 2005, Philbin and Daly were joined in the ratings race by Ryan Seacrest, attempting to play Dick Clark for the American Idol generation with his own countdown show on Fox. Numbers for the late-night shows were not available Tuesday.
Elsewhere:
Medium, the new NBC drama with Patricia Arquette as a psychic crime-solver, conjured up 16.1 million viewers Monday night, per preliminary ratings. CBS' CSI: Miami lived larger in the 10 p.m. slot, with 18.2 million viewers.CBS predictably spun Tuesday's night-owl debut of Craig Ferguson as permanent host of The Late Late Show as a positive ("double digit increases in viewers and key demographics over the time period's season-to-date average). Rival NBC predictably spun it as a defeat ("a Conan encore [aka, repeat] breezes past" Ferguson).
An estimated 6.3 million watched T.J. Myers cry tears of joy and/or embarrassment upon being reunited with her biological father Monday on the Fox exercise in exploitation, Who's Your Daddy?. The 90-minute special "led" the network to a fourth-place finish for the night, which means it did about as well, or poorly, as the rest of Fox's struggling lineup.
The Fox medical drama House played doctor to a middling 6.9 million (54th place)--and won a new five-episode order from its grateful network.
NBC burned off three more episodes of the animated misfire Father of the Pride. The shows averaged 4.9 million Siegfried & Roy diehards, with no individual installment ranking higher than 71st place.
A Primetime Live special on the Indonesian tsunami disaster drew in 10.3 million for ABC (19th place).
In a rerun-heavy holiday week, NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent (fourth place, 14.8 million) and Crossing Jordan (eighth place, 14.1 million) were able to break into the top 10 with new episodes.
Overall, CBS won the barely watched TV week ended Sunday. Its collection of reruns and newsmagazines averaged 10.2 million.
ABC ran second in total viewers, averaging 9.7 million, and first in totally desirable ones, aged 18 to 49. NBC ran third in both categories, averaging 8.5 million; Fox brought up the rear, with 5.5 million.
UPN distanced itself from the WB, 2.7 million to 2.3 million viewers.
Here's a rundown of the 10 most watched prime-time shows for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen Media Research:
1. CSI, CBS, 18.3 million viewers
2. 60 Minutes, CBS, 16.44 million viewers
3. Monday Night Football, ABC, 16.36 million viewers
4. Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NBC, 14.8 million viewers
5. Everybody Loves Raymond, CBS, 14.8 million viewers
6. Without a Trace, CBS, 14.3 million viewers
7. NFL Monday Showcase, ABC, 14.2 million viewers
8. Crossing Jordan, NBC, 14.1 million viewers
9. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 13.5 million viewers
10. CSI: Miami, CBS, 13.4 million viewers
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