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Titolo: [JOEY] Ratings del pilot

JOEY PREMIERES TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE START OF THE TELEVISION SEASON
AGAINST STRONG COMPETITION BUT TOPS ALL OTHER PROGRAMMING TO CLAIM
FIRST PLACE FOR THE NIGHT WITH 18.6 MILLION VIEWERS!
September 9, 2004: Fast National Ratings from Nielsen Media Research
      After months of Thursday night reruns, NBC finally unveiled new
"Must-See TV" programming on Thursday night, highlighted by the
long-awaited series premiere of Joey, a spin-off from the highly
successful Friends.  Joey replaced Friends as the anchor for NBC's
Thursday night and did not disappoint in the ratings.  While NBC chose
the unusual strategy of premiering its shows two weeks prior to the
official start of the television season in order to benefit from its
large audiences from the Olympics, Joey still faced stiff competition
from a special NFL Opening Kickoff 2004 on ABC and a live episode of
Big Brother 5 on CBS.
      Despite airing against competitive programming, the "supersized"
38-minute premiere of Joey still emerged as the most-watched show of
the entire night, pulling a preliminary estimate of an 11.7 rating and
a 20 share with a final value of 18.6 million viewers.  Comparably,
the rating was about 25 percent lower than the tenth season premiere
of Friends a year ago and about 20 percent below the Friends pilot ten
years ago, which aired at a time when network television controlled a
much larger portion of the overall audience.  As a result, were it a
Friends episode, the Joey premiere would rank as one of the ten
least-watched Friends episodes of all time.  However, with the
networks losing a sizeable percentage of viewership to cable, Joey
topped all other programming for the night and is on pace to rank
number one for the week, as shown by Thursday night's preliminary
ratings.
1. Joey: 11.7/20
2. NFL Football: Indianapolis vs. New England: 10.8/18 (during
primetime)
3. The Apprentice: 9.4/15
4. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: 8.9/14
5. Medical Investigation: 8.3/13
6. Without a Trace: 7.6/12
7. NFL Opening Kickoff 2004: 6.8/11
8. Big Brother 5: 6.2/10
      Overall, behind its premieres, NBC scored a tie with ABC for the
night with a 9.5/15 average, easily topping CBS's repeat-filled
third-place 7.5/12 average.  Since the television season does not
officially begin until Monday, September 20, the first two Joey
episodes will not be included in Joey's season-to-date ratings for the
2004-2005 season.  However, because of the abnormal nature of this
year's season, Planet Dan will still include them in its own numbers.
The second episode of Joey airs next week, and is again "supersized"
to 40 minutes!
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September 9, 2004: Fast National Ratings from Nielsen Media Research
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NEW YORK (AP) - Based on its series premiere, Joey Tribbiani is
missing a few viewers along with his ``Friends.'' An estimated 18.6
million people watched the first episode of ``Joey'' Thursday, the
spinoff of ``Friends'' that NBC was counting on to keep its Thursday
night lineup strong, according to Nielsen Media Research.
That's lower than any original episode of Matt LeBlanc's old series
drew last season, including the 24.5 million people who saw the season
debut.
NBC notes that ``Joey'' gathered the largest audience among the
advertiser-friendly 18-to-49-year-old age group of any other
entertainment show since May. It was also the best-rated 8 p.m. comedy
premiere for NBC in 14 years.
Yet given that NBC promoted the series heavily during the Olympics and
its chief Thursday competition, ``Survivor,'' hasn't started the
season yet, it seemed the number would have been higher, said Marc
Berman, a television analyst for Media Week Online.
``I can't imagine they're all there (at NBC) jumping for joy,'' he
said.
``Joey'' should settle in to being ``a respectable hit, but it won't
be a breakout hit,'' he said.
The ratings compare to last season's premiere of CBS' ``Two and a Half
Men,'' which drew 18.4 million viewers.
If he looked at Thursday night's numbers, Donald Trump's job security
may not be that much better than the ambitious contestants he's
putting on the firing line.
The debut of ``The Apprentice'' for its second season was seen by 14.1
million people, Nielsen said. That's the lowest number yet for the
business game, down from the 20.7 million average for the first season
and the 18.5 million who saw the first episode ever.
``The Apprentice'' was going up against the first game of the National
Football League season, stiffer competition than usual on ABC. CBS'
``CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,'' was airing a rerun at the same
time.
Television viewers haven't exactly jumped at the chance to see network
fare ahead of the traditional start of the fall season in late
September. Fox's effort to debut new series in the summer proved to be
disastrous.
So many viewers still may not have shed their summer viewing habits. 
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