Question: Among which age demographic was the series rated as the sixth highest in America in terms of scripted shows?
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Since its premiere, the series has remained popular.
In its first season, the show became the sixth highest-rated scripted show in America among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, and the third-highest rated new show.
Aided by winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, the show's second season became the highest rated show on Wednesday on premiere week and also rose 34% from the previous season among adults between the ages of 18 and 49.
The show frequently ranked as television's top scripted series in adults 18–49 as well.
The success of the show has been positively compared to "The Cosby Show".
During the 2010–2011 season, "Modern Family" was the highest rated scripted show in the 18–49 demographic, and the third highest rated overall sitcom behind CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" and "Two and a Half Men".
The season also ranked first among DVR viewers.
The third season premiere became ABC's top-rated season premiere in six years.
The series' success in ratings has also led to the series being credited for reviving sitcoms.
In its original American broadcast, "Worlds Apart" was seen by an estimated 4.46 million household viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The episode was down 24% from its series debut, which garnered a 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
Nevertheless, "Falling Skies" remains TNT's highest-rated scripted series.
"Worlds Apart" received a 1.5 rating among viewers between ages 18 and 49, meaning 1.5 percent of viewers in that age bracket watched the episode. 
For its second year, the show still maintained its ratings – with 22.2 million viewers, it reclaimed its position as the number four most watched show.
The second season's premiere was watched by 28.4 million viewers.
The episode drew in the second largest audience for the series in its history.
However, several critics started to notice a declining quality of the show's script, and "USA Today"'s Robert Bianco suggested that the part of the show getting "less good" was that showrunner Cherry had left much of the series writing in the hands of others.
Midway through the season executive producer Michael Edenstein left the show due to conflicts with Cherry and in May 2006, just a couple of weeks prior to the second season finale, so did Tom Spezialy.
After the end of the season, Cherry agreed that the second year's script had been weaker and also agreed that it had been a mistake to let go too much of the show.
He now stated that he was back full-time, claiming that both he and the writing staff had learned from their mistakes.
The critics generally agreed on the improved quality for the third year, but the overall ratings fell notably from previous seasons.
Due to complications from her pregnancy Marcia Cross was put on bed rest.
After filming one episode from her own personal bedroom she was forced to take maternity leave with eight episodes of season three still remaining.
It was predicted that the ratings would be down by over 25% since the premiere year.
However, for the last three episodes of the season, the rating turned somewhat, and the season ended up with 17.5 million viewers, falling from number four to number ten on the list of most watched shows.
While Cross's departure allowed for the much-underused Edie to have more story, fans noticed a decline in the stories during Cross's departure.
Stories such as Lynette's emotional affair with restaurant manager Rick, proved unpopular.
Furthermore, Susan's contrived triangle with Ian and Mike seemed tiresome to many viewers, particularly in an episode where Susan is lost in the woods.
Notable, however, was that the show's rating among viewers age 18–24 increased from the previous season.
For its fourth season, the series proved to have staying power.
The series averaged 18.2 million viewers.
Ratings peaked in Episode 9 where 20.6 million viewers tuned in to see the heavily marketed tornado episode.
The show once again moved back up into the top 5 highest rated programs in the 2007–2008 season, being the #1 ABC drama and beating popular medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" after falling behind it for the first time in the third season.
It also became for the first time the #1 scripted show, beating "CSI".
Although ratings were down for the fifth season, along with every single scripted series on television, "Desperate Housewives" was still the most watched scripted series on ABC, consistently beating the other ABC flagship shows, "Lost" and "Grey's Anatomy," although the latter is still number one in the 18–49 demographic, followed by "Housewives".
Similar to the fifth season, ratings were down for the sixth season because of heavy competition in many airings, but the show still managed to remain the second most watched scripted show on ABC and the eleventh most watched scripted show of all broadcast television.
The series continued to hit lower ratings, because of competition like the 67th Golden Globe Awards, 2010 Grammy Awards, 2010 Winter Olympics, and the new CBS reality series "Undercover Boss".
Nevertheless, the sixth season managed to finish in the top twenty overall, both in total viewers and 18-49 demographic audiences.
Among scripted shows, it still ranked inside the top 10, in both categories.
The seventh season premiered on September 26, 2010 and averaged 11.85 million viewers.
The season saw new lows for the series reaching for the first time below 10 million viewers, and saw lows of 2.7 in the 18-49 demographic.
For the first half of the season, ratings started off strong averaging 12.3 million viewers and 3.9 in the 18-49 demographic which is similar to the second half of the sixth season.
However, ratings declined in the second half of the season, after two continuous episodes had to first compete against the 68th Golden Globe Awards and then the 2011 Grammy Awards.
The show failed to recover back to viewer levels hit in the first half of the season, and continued to receive 9 - 10 million viewers and 2.7 - 3.1 in the 18-49 demographic.
This was the first time in its history that "Desperate Housewives" would not place in the 20 most watched shows of the season, although it would place in the 20 most watched scripted shows.
Season 8 continued to see declines in the show's ratings.
The season premiered to 9.93 million viewers and a 3.2 in the demo making it the least watched season premiere in the show's history.
The season started off averaging ratings similar to those of the latter half of season 7, averaging 8–9 million viewers and between a 2.8 to 3.0 in the 18-49 demographic.
However after the mid-season finale the ratings returned lower, hitting the 7 million viewer mark and a 2.2-2.5 in the demo.
Season 8 also saw the lowest ratings in the show's eight-year run.
Opposite the 2012 Grammy Awards, which featured a tribute to the recently deceased Whitney Houston, and the mid season premiere of "The Walking Dead" on AMC, the show fell to a 1.8 rating in adults 18-49 and 6.4 million viewers.
However unlike season 7, the show's ratings slightly recovered after the series low and leveled around the 8 million viewer mark and a 2.6 in the demo.
Despite the series lows, the season finale was able to go out on a season high in the ratings and the highest rated episode in over a year and a half, since March 2011 with "Searching".
The series finale titled "Finishing the Hat" aired May 13, 2012 was viewed by 11.12 million viewers and a 3.2 in the demo.
Despite the lows in the ratings the show managed to remain in the Top 25 watched shows in the 18-49 demographic, placing in at 25th.
However the show dropped out of the Top 30 most watched shows in total viewers, coming in at 35th place.
No other series has shown success in the timeslot since Housewives leaving the air in 2012.
In 2006, the American cable network Bravo launched their reality series, "The Real Housewives of...", in the footsteps of the "real life desperate housewives" phenomenon.
That program has taken place in areas such as Orange County, California, Atlanta, and two series within the New York-Tri-State Region, within the City itself and the New Jersey suburbs.
According to a survey of twenty countries conducted in 2006 by "Informa Telecoms and Media", "Desperate Housewives" was the third most viewed TV show in the world, after fellow American series "" and "Lost".
During a fund raising auction for the British child charity ChildLine in December 2006, a walk-on part in "Desperate Housewives" had the highest bid, £17,000, beating Daniel Craig's James Bond tuxedo from "Casino Royale".
In Fall 2013, North Korea allegedly executed 80 people for watching banned South Korean soap operas, Desperate Housewives being the most common soap opera.
Desperate Housewives was being secretly watched by mp3 players, hard drives, and DVDs. 
The season ranked 21st in the seasonal 18–49 demographic ratings with an average of 3.9 rating/10% share in the demographic meaning that the season was watched by an average of 3.9% of households and 10% average of all televisions were tuned to the season when it was broadcast.
The season also ranked 36th in the seasonal total viewers with an average of 9.48 million households.
The season became the third highest rated new series, the second highest rated new scripted show, and the highest rated new sitcom that season.
The penultimate episode, "Hawaii", was the highest rated episode of the season with a 4.3 rating/11% share in the Nielsen ratings and at the time was the highest rated episode of the series.
The lowest rated episode was "Fizbo", which was viewed by an estimated 7.12 million households with a 2.4 rating/7% share in the 18–49 demographic although this is might have been caused by the episode airing on Thanksgiving Eve.
The ratings later went up mid-season despite competition against "American Idol" with two episodes ("My Funky Valentine" and "Fifteen Percent") tying with the pilot as the second highest rated episode of the season. 
"The Big Bang Theory" has been highly rated since its premiere.
When the third season premiered on September 21, 2009, "The Big Bang Theory" ranked as CBS's highest-rated show of that evening in the adults 18–49 demographic (4.6/10) along with a then-series-high 12.83 million viewers.
After the first three seasons aired at different times on Monday nights, CBS moved the show to Thursdays at 8:00 ET for the 2010–2011 schedule, to be in direct competition with NBC's Comedy Block.
During its fourth season, it became television's highest rated comedy, just barely beating out eight-year champ "Two and a Half Men".
However, in the age 18–49 demographic (the show's target age range), it was the second highest rated comedy, behind ABC's "Modern Family".
The fifth season opened with viewing figures of over 14 million.
The sixth season boasts some of the highest-rated episodes for the show so far, with a then-new series high set with "The Bakersfield Expedition" (Season 6, Episode 13), with 20 million viewers, a first for the series, which along with "NCIS", made CBS the first network to have two scripted series reach that large an audience in the same week since 2007.
In the sixth season, the show became the highest rated and viewed scripted show in the 18–49 demographic, trailing only "NBC's Sunday Night Football" coverage, and was third in total viewers, trailing "NCIS" and "Sunday Night Football".
Season seven of the show opened strong, continuing the success gained in season six, with the second episode of the premiere, "The Deception Verification", setting the new series high in viewers with 20.44 million.
Showrunner Steve Molaro, who took over from Bill Prady with the sixth season, credits some of the show's success to the sitcom's exposure in off-network syndication, particularly on TBS, while Michael Schneider of "TV Guide" attributes it to the timeslot move two seasons earlier.
Chuck Lorre and CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler also credit the success to the influence of Molaro, in particular the deepening exploration of the firmly established regular characters and their interpersonal relationships, such as the on-again, off-again relationship between Leonard and Penny.
Throughout much of the 2012–13 season, "The Big Bang Theory" placed first in all of syndication ratings, receiving formidable competition from only "Judge Judy" and "Wheel of Fortune" (first-run syndication programs).
By the end of the 2012–13 television season, "The Big Bang Theory" had dethroned "Judge Judy" as the ratings leader in all of syndicated programming with 7.1, "Judy" descending to second place for that season with a 7.0.