Many more disclaimers can be seen on the individual pages, but the most basic one is that the listed schedules are fall lineups, even when midseason replacements may have done much better. Please also note that the 2003-04 thru 2005-06 numbers still contain the "old" A18-49+ scores from before I filled in the missing data from those seasons. So those numbers will change (slightly) when the 2014-15 numbers are entered this summer.
It was a bit awkward to do historical "ranks" for the WB/UPN networks since these networks merged in 2006, so for each night I'm just including the full A18-49+ era averages during WB/UPN times (2001-06) and during CW times (2006-14).
More 2001-03 Schedules Plus updates: ABC | CBS | NBC | Fox | CW
Monday
| WB | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | ||
| 2001-02 | 7th Heaven | Angel | 61 | ||||
| 71 | 51 | ||||||
| 2002-03 | 7th Heaven | Everwood | 62 (+2%) | ||||
| 71 (-0%) | 54 (+5%) | ||||||
| 2003-04 | 7th Heaven | Everwood | 52 (-17%) | ||||
| 57 (-20%) | 47 (-13%) | ||||||
| WBAvg | 61 | 44 | 52 | ||||
| CWAvg | 30 | 31 | 31 | ||||
| UPN | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | ||
| 2001-02 | The Hughleys | One on One | The Parkers | Girlfriends | 40 | ||
| 34 | 40 | 42 | 44 | ||||
| 37 | 43 | ||||||
| 2002-03 | One On One | The Parkers | Girlfriends | Half and Half | 39 (-3%) | ||
| 39 (+13%) | 36 (-9%) | 43 (+2%) | 37 (-15%) | ||||
| 37 (+1%) | 40 (-7%) | ||||||
| 2003-04 | The Parkers | Eve | Girlfriends | Half and Half | 39 (+1%) | ||
| 37 (-5%) | 39 (+8%) | 41 (-4%) | 40 (+7%) | ||||
| 38 (+1%) | 41 (+1%) | ||||||
| UPNAvg | 36 | 40 | 38 | ||||
| CWAvg | 30 | 31 | 31 | ||||
Monday was really the only night on which both the WB and UPN did significantly better than the average in the CW era. 7th Heaven was a monster at the beginning of this era but took its first huge drop in the 2003-04 season; the second huge drop came in its final season on the CW. The UPN Monday African-American comedy lineup was remarkably consistent during these years but began to tail off in the last couple UPN seasons, and then even more in the first couple CW seasons (leading to the Dawn Ostroff comedy purge).
Tuesday
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | |||
| 2001-02 | Gilmore Girls | Smallville | 62 | ||||
| 55 | 70 | ||||||
| 2002-03 | Gilmore Girls | Smallville | 73 (+17%) | ||||
| 58 (+6%) | 87 (+25%) | ||||||
| 2003-04 | Gilmore Girls | One Tree Hill | 44 (-40%) | ||||
| 49 (-15%) | 38 (-56%) | ||||||
| WBAvg | 56 | 59 | 57 | ||||
| CWAvg | 39 | 30 | 35 | ||||
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | |||
| 2001-02 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Roswell | 46 | ||||
| 61 | 31 | ||||||
| 2002-03 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Haunted | 36 (-22%) | ||||
| 50 (-19%) | 22 (-28%) | ||||||
| 2003-04 | One On One | All of Us | Rock Me Baby | The Mullets | 30 (-17%) | ||
| 31 | 38 | 25 | 25 | ||||
| 35 (-30%) | 25 (+12%) | ||||||
| UPNAvg | 41 | 24 | 32 | ||||
| CWAvg | 39 | 30 | 35 | ||||
Though they may not seem perfectly compatible, Gilmore Girls and Smallville made for quite the powerhouse night, especially in Smallville's sophomore season. That 2002-03 lineup sits over 10 points ahead of the next-biggest combo on a netlet in the last 14 years. While it will be difficult for this season's The Flash (86 as of this writing) and Supernatural (53) to match that 73 average, they definitely seem to be on track to come in second.
On UPN, things kept getting worse in the years after the end of Buffy. In 2004-05, the 8/7c comedy hour got much weaker leading into modest newbie Veronica Mars. Then the network ended up airing a large volume of repeats on the night in its last season.
Wednesday
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | |||
| 2001-02 | Dawson's Creek | Felicity | 43 | ||||
| 48 | 38 | ||||||
| 2002-03 | Dawson's Creek | Birds of Prey | 50 (+15%) | ||||
| 52 (+7%) | 48 (+26%) | ||||||
| 2003-04 | Smallville | Angel | 56 (+12%) | ||||
| 60 (+15%) | 52 (+9%) | ||||||
| WBAvg | 50 | 39 | 44 | ||||
| CWAvg | 54 | 34 | 44 | ||||
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | |||
| 2001-02 | Enterprise | Special Unit 2 | 60 | ||||
| 79 | 41 | ||||||
| 2002-03 | Enterprise | The Twilight Zone | 38 (-36%) | ||||
| 47 (-40%) | 29 (-28%) | ||||||
| 2003-04 | Enterprise | Jake 2.0 | 31 (-19%) | ||||
| 39 (-17%) | 23 (-21%) | ||||||
| UPNAvg | 57 | 31 | 44 | ||||
| CWAvg | 54 | 34 | 44 | ||||
No night was more important in the shift in power from UPN to the WB across this three year period than Wednesday; Enterprise lost half of its Plus juice from season one to season three and brought its soft 9/8c lead-outs down with it. Meanwhile, Angel came to Wednesday in January 2003 and Smallville the next fall, providing a nice increase on the last couple seasons of Dawson's Creek.
Thursday
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | |||
| 2001-02 | Popstars | Elimidate Deluxe | Charmed | 36 | |||
| 22 | 20 | 50 | |||||
| 21 | |||||||
| 2002-03 | Family Affair | Do Over | Jamie Kennedy | Off Centre | 22 (-38%) | ||
| 21 (-7%) | 19 (-7%) | 29 | 20 | ||||
| 20 (-7%) | 24 (-51%) | ||||||
| 2003-04 | Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge | The Jamie Kennedy Experiment | What I Like About You | Run of the House | 24 (+7%) | ||
| 28 (+36%) | 27 (+45%) | 20 (-31%) | 19 (-3%) | ||||
| 28 (+40%) | 20 (-20%) | ||||||
| WBAvg | 31 | 30 | 30 | ||||
| CWAvg | 55 | 36 | 46 | ||||
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | |||
| 2001-02 | WWE Smackdown! | 59 | |||||
| 59 | 59 | ||||||
| 2002-03 | WWE Smackdown! | 48 (-18%) | |||||
| 48 (-18%) | 48 (-18%) | ||||||
| 2003-04 | WWE Smackdown! | 48 (+0%) | |||||
| 48 (+0%) | 48 (+0%) | ||||||
| UPNAvg | 47 | 45 | 46 | ||||
| CWAvg | 55 | 36 | 46 | ||||
Though it's been the CW's best night historically, Thursday was a nearly impossible frontier for ABC and Fox to conquer in the days of the epic duels between Survivor and Friends, and it was not much easier for the netlets. The WB got good numbers from Charmed in the years leading into the era but was mired in sub-mediocrity after moving it to Sunday, while UPN succeeded by targeting a different demo with wrestling. Neither network really made a mark with scripted series until 2005-06, when the WB brought in Smallville and UPN had the breakout start from Everybody Hates Chris.
Friday
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | |||
| 2001-02 | Sabrina the Teenage Witch | Maybe It's Me | Reba | Raising Dad | 30 | ||
| 29 | 25 | 38 | 28 | ||||
| 27 | 33 | ||||||
| 2002-03 | What I Like About You | Sabrina the Teenage Witch | Reba | Greetings from Tuscon | 32 (+5%) | ||
| 29 (+1%) | 28 (+12%) | 40 (+4%) | 29 (+4%) | ||||
| 29 (+6%) | 34 (+4%) | ||||||
| 2003-04 | Reba | Like Family | Grounded for Life | The Andersons | 30 (-6%) | ||
| 37 (+27%) | 25 (-12%) | 29 (-28%) | 27 (-6%) | ||||
| 31 (+8%) | 28 (-19%) | ||||||
| WBAvg | 28 | 33 | 30 | ||||
| CWAvg | 30 | 29 | 29 | ||||
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | |||
| 2001-02 | (movies) | 27 | |||||
| 27 | 27 | ||||||
| 2002-03 | (movies) | 19 (-30%) | |||||
| 19 (-30%) | 19 (-30%) | ||||||
| 2003-04 | (movies) | 20 (+5%) | |||||
| 20 (+5%) | 20 (+5%) | ||||||
| UPNAvg | 27 | 24 | 26 | ||||
| CWAvg | 30 | 29 | 29 | ||||
Reba was truly a hero for the WB on Friday, making the network's stab at a TGIF-esque lineup more competitive than it probably had any right to be. The only things the CW has ever had at Reba levels on Friday were Smackdown! and the last couple seasons of Smallville.
Sunday
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | |||
| 2001-02 | The Steve Harvey Show | Men, Women and Dogs | Nikki | Off Centre | 26 | ||
| 30 | 26 | 25 | 24 | ||||
| 28 | 24 | ||||||
| 2002-03 | Charmed | Angel | 49 (+85%) | ||||
| 51 (+82%) | 46 (+88%) | ||||||
| 2003-04 | Charmed | Tarzan | 46 (-6%) | ||||
| 54 (+5%) | 38 (-17%) | ||||||
| WBAvg | 44 | 32 | 38 | ||||
| CWAvg | 18 | 16 | 17 | ||||
After toiling away with a largely uncompetitive comedy night in 2001-02, the WB moved Charmed to Sunday for 2002-03. It had a very solid run on Sunday for the last four years of the WB's existence, and the CW was never capable of even getting in the same stratosphere ratings-wise on the night.
1 comment:
Spot,
What would Enterprise's Plus be it you strip out the big premiere number
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