Despite new episodes of Dollhouse, Ugly Betty and Dateline, Medium easily won its timeslot last night with its first new episode in two weeks. The bio-terror attack and Lee’s proposal managed to get kind of a low 6.96 million total viewers, but a respectable 1.8 in the ratings. While this is a huge improvement over last week’s rerun, it’s down slightly from Medium’s last new episode, which garnered 7.80 million viewers with a 1.9 in the 18-49 group.

I’m still dismayed to see that Dateline (6.28/1.5) is still routinely grabbing second place, because we really need to support scripted programming on …read more

If you spent the Thanksgiving weekend anything like my family and I did, it involved a lot of stuffing your face with ill-advised foods and maybe glancing at a football game or two before drifting off into a wine-induced slumber. I barely watched any TV at all over the weekend, and the fact that most shows were reruns made that feat quite easy indeed.

Medium showed a repeat from season 5 called, “The Man in the Mirror,” guest-starring Arrested Development’s Jeffrey Tambor (whom I love). Overall, I enjoyed the episode, but many of you commented that it wasn’t a strong choice …read more

The overnights are in, and while last night’s episode of Medium, in which Allison had some crazy magical sunglasses that made her look like Alabama Whitman, was slightly down in overall viewers, it scored the same in the18-49 demo. Medium garnered 7.80 million viewers with a 1.9 in the 18-49 group, compared to last week when it had 8.16 million viewers and a 1.9.

Medium came in a close second to Ghost Whisperer, which had 8.43 million viewers and 2.0 in the 18-49 group, but beat CBS’ 10:00 show, Numb3rs, in the 18-49 demo, with its 7.84 million total viewers and …read more

Mike already beat me to this in the comments, but Medium’s numbers are up from the last two weeks. Last night, they scored 8.16 million total viewers with 1.9 in the 18-49 demographic. While that’s a nice jump in total viewers from last week’s 7.6 million, it’s not a huge jump in the main demographic, as they garnered a 1.8 last week.

However, it was enough to allow Medium to easily win its timeslot, and for CBS to easily win the night. Once again, Dateline on NBC came in second place with 7.32/1.7. Medium also improved as compared to its Friday …read more

Granted, my theory that last week’s ratings lows were based on people being out at Halloween parties wasn’t entirely serious, but I did believe that the low ratings were an anomaly. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case, as Medium scored the same ratings as it did last week, and for the first time, lost the hour.

Scoring a total viewership of 7.6 million, and a 1.8 in the 18-49 group, Medium lost the 9:00 hour to a special two-hour episode of Law & Order. L&O garnered 8.0 million and a 1.8 at 8:00, but grew its audience in the …read more

Even though ratings were down from the week before, CBS in general, and Medium specifically, easily won the night. CBS’s lineup of Ghost Whisperer, Medium, and Numb3rs easily beat fare that included Dollhouse on FOX, Law & Order on NBC, and The Forgotten on ABC.

Medium’s total viewers for the night were 7.7 million, building slightly on Ghost Whisperer’s audience of 7.6 million. Medium also won in the 18-49 demographic, snagging 1.8 million viewers.
While Friday night’s ratings may not be as high as they would be were these shows to air on a different night, they are blowing away the competition. …read more

As some of you have read already, Medium’s premiere dominated the Friday night ratings. Not only did it easily win its timeslot, but with a viewership of 8.78 million (2.1 18-49) it had the most total viewers of the entire night. Not bad for a canceled show, huh? In fact, CBS’ lineup of Ghost Whisperer, Medium and Numb3rs each won in their respective timeslots.
What makes this so important is not only the fact that Medium has so far proved itself to be a viable show, but CBS’ lineup is helping to make Friday a viable night. Friday night has been …read more

Although you guys mostly talk about Medium (obviously), I’m sure that’s not the only show you watch. Some of you have talked about loving Ghost Whisperer, others have never seen it. Some of you watch American Idol, others hate it. So I’m curious? What else do you watch? I want to know what some of your other favorite shows are.
For me, I’m in love with Mad Men. It is hands-down one of my favorite shows on television right now. I’ve also gotten into Dexter, and I love all of the Law & Orders. As far as comedies go, I’m a …read more

I wrote earlier about how Friday nights seem to be the new TV hotspot, and now there’s even more good news coming out about Medium’s chances this fall. Brett Love, who writes for CliqueClack TV (which, full disclosure, is another site I write for), thinks that Medium will easily win the night, when it premieres later this month. He says,
“The real fun though, starts at 9. All of a sudden everybody wants to come out and play. The four big networks all have original scripted programming. Who’d have thought? You could actually bend the numbers to make a case for …read more

In case you somehow missed me hollering about the great news (You only live a continent away? How could you not have heard that?) when CBS picked up Medium, here’s the announcement:
Folks, CBS has picked up Medium. The show will air between Ghost Whisperer and Numb3rs, which means I’ll have to start watching Ghost Whisperer again. (You killed her hubby, you murdering writers! A ghost is not the same!) However, I won’t have to stay up til 11 pm, because it will be on at 9 pm EST. And, there’ll be publicity. Actual publicity where people promote a …read more