Season 4 "Alias" Episode 3: # 20

[Alias_Gay]

<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>ABC Wins its 6th Consecutive Wednesday:</span>

With its combination of first-place time period finishes for Lost (HH: 12.6/19; Viewers: 20.81 million; A18-49: 7.9/21) and Alias (HH: 8.9/13; Viewers: 13.90 million; A18-49: 5.9/14), followed by a respectable third-place Wife Swap at 10 p.m. (HH: 6.6/11; Viewers: 9.56 million; A18-49: 4.2/11), ABC won its 6th consecutive Wednesday in total viewers and adults 18-49.

After three-years, it looks like ABC has finally found the right time period for "Alias", which in two weeks on Wednesday has improved the 9-10 p.m. time period by 5.6 million viewers and 50 percent among adults 18-49.

Source MediaWeekOnline!

 

[Azalea]

Isn't it a shame that they didn't try to find a better night and timeslot for Alias sooner? I guess it wouldn't really have affected much, but it would still be nice to have a bigger audience. But then again, without the lead-in of Lost, and the fact that so many people are new fans of J.J. Abrams and want to sample his other projects, moving it in the past might not have had the same effect.

 

[freakforalias]

And here's hoping that the ratings will keep on getting higher and to hoping that American Idol doesn't pull away the audience....

 

[Alias_Gay]

The Top 10 shows for this past week ... "Alias" was # 20

1. CSI, CBS, 27.6 million viewers
2. Desperate Housewives, ABC, 24.1 million viewers
3. NFL Playoff Game (St. Louis Rams vs. Atlanta Falcons), Fox, 23.7 million viewers
4. NFL Playoff Game (Indianapolis Colts vs. New England Patriots), CBS, 23.6 million viewers
5. NFL Playoff Pregame, Fox, 21.4 million viewers
6. Lost, ABC, 20.8 million viewers
7. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, ABC, 20.4 million viewers
8. Without a Trace, CBS, 18.8 million viewers
9. ER, NBC, 18.4 million viewers
10. 62nd Annual Golden Globes, NBC, 16.8 million viewers

Just one week into its late-start season, ABC's Alias (20th place, 13.9 million) bled Lost fans (sixth place, 20.8 million), and fell off more than 10 percent from its premiere. On the Alias upside, more people tuned in to the Jennifer Garner series than bought tickets last weekend to the Jennifer Garner movie Elektra.

 

[aliasfanjay]

On the Alias upside, more people tuned in to the Jennifer Garner series than bought tickets last weekend to the Jennifer Garner movie Elektra.

This is hardly a good comparison. Ticket sales are a better indication of how popular something is compared to TV ratings, well in Australia it is anyway.