Desperate Housewives Wins Sunday with 2.3 Million Viewers Ratings / CTV Posted by RAD on Sep 30, 2008 - 03:10 PM As the dust settles on the first week of the new television season, CTV is the #1 choice for viewers, with eight of the Top 10 most-watched programs in the country. With 2.3 million viewers last night at 9 p.m., Desperate Housewives joins CTV’s Criminal Minds, CSI: Miami and Grey’s Anatomy on the list of the four most-watched programs in the country last week. In last night’s episode, the housewives returned five years in the future, with Bree (Marcia Cross) running a cookbook empire and Edie (Nicolette Sheridan) nabbing herself a creepy new husband (Neal McDonough). CTV won every time-slot from 8-11 p.m. Sunday night in total viewers and A25-54 and 18-49 with the Top 3 most-watched programs on Canadian television. A look at the night reveals that: · Up 5% over last season’s premiere, Desperate Housewives won the night nationally at 9 p.m. on CTV with total viewers (2.31 million) and the key A25-54 (1.24 million) and A18-49 (1.23 million) selling demos. It was also #1 among total viewers and A25-54 and A18-49 in Toronto and Vancouver. · Despite airing out of simulcast due to an NFL football overrun on CBS, The Amazing Race was the #2 show of the night nationally at 8 p.m. on CTV with 1.9 million viewers, besting the simulcast premieres of The Simpsons (Global/FOX; 904,000) and King of the Hill (Global/FOX; 655,000) · At 10 p.m., a stand-alone episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent on CTV attracted 1.2 million viewers nationally, 29% more than watched the season premiere of Brothers & Sisters (Global/ABC; 945,000) CTV ended Premiere Week with 8/10 of the most-watched programs among Total Viewers, 7/10 among A25-54 and 6/10 among A18-49, winning the three top slots in each demo. The Top 10 programs (total viewers) for the first week of the new TV season are: 1. CSI: Miami (CTV, 2.77 million) 2. Criminal Minds (CTV, 2.66 million) 3. Grey’s Anatomy (CTV, 2.38 million) 4. Desperate Housewives (CTV, 2.31 million) 5. Survivor: Gabon (Global, 2.21 million) 6. House (Global, 2.17 million) 7. CSI: NY (CTV, 2.08 million) 8. The Amazing Race (CTV, 1.89 million) 9. Dancing With the Stars Performance (CTV, 1.74 million) 10. Dancing With the Stars Performance/Results (CTV 1.44 million) Last night’s Desperate Housewives episode is available for viewing on demand on the CTV Video Player at CTV.ca All-new episodes airing on CTV tonight includes Dancing with the Stars at 8 p.m. ET, followed by CSI: Miami at 10 p.m. ET (visit ctv.ca to confirm local broadcast times). Source: Preliminary overnight data, CTV Total and Global Total (BBM Nielsen Media Research). This article is from CHANNEL CANADA   http://www.channelcanada.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.channelcanada.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2481