The Office Nielsen Ratings, Season 6
Friday, May 21st, 2010 | 58 comments
May 20, 2010: ‘Whistleblower’
Overnight ratings: 6.60 million viewers, 3.4/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
May 13, 2010: ‘The Chump’
Overnight ratings: 6.575 million viewers, 3.4/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
May 6, 2010: ‘The Cover-Up’
Overnight ratings: 6.85 million viewers, 3.5/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Apr. 29, 2010: ‘Body Language’
Overnight ratings: 7.09 million viewers, 3.6/11 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Apr. 22, 2010: ‘Secretary’s Day’
Overnight ratings: 6.41 million viewers, 3.3/9 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 1st place, leading CSI and Private Practice in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Mar. 25, 2010: ‘Happy Hour’
Overnight ratings: 7.16 million viewers, 3.5/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 3rd place, behind NCAA Basketball March Madness and Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Mar. 18, 2010: ‘New Leads’
Overnight ratings: 7.63 million viewers, 3.6/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind NCAA Basketball March Madness in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Mar. 11, 2010: ‘St. Patrick’s Day’
Overnight ratings: 7.50 million viewers, 3.8/11 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Mar. 4, 2010: ‘The Delivery’
Part 1:
Overnight ratings: 8.71 million viewers, 4.5/12 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 1st place, leading Grey’s Anatomy and CSI in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Part 2:
Overnight ratings: 9.35 million viewers, 4.9/13 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 1st place, leading Grey’s Anatomy and CSI in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Feb. 11, 2010: ‘The Manager and the Salesman’
Overnight ratings: 7.40 million viewers, 3.7/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 3rd place, behind CBS Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains and Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Feb. 4, 2010: ‘Sabre’
Overnight ratings: 7.36 million viewers, 3.8/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Jan. 21, 2010: ‘The Banker’
Overnight ratings: 7.29 million viewers, 3.7/9 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Dec. 10, 2009: ‘Secret Santa’
Overnight ratings: 9.24 million viewers, 4.4/12 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 1st place, leading CSI and Fringe in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Dec. 3, 2009: ‘Scott’s Tots’
Overnight ratings: 8.05 million viewers, 4.1/11 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 1st place, leading Private Practice and Fringe in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Nov. 19, 2009: ‘Shareholder Meeting’
Overnight ratings: 7.43 million viewers, 3.7/9 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Nov. 12, 2009: ‘Murder’
Overnight ratings: 8.05 million viewers, 4.2/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
P.S. Numbers amended per this post. Tipster: Danny
Nov. 5, 2009: ‘Double Date’
Overnight ratings: 7.94 million viewers, 3.9/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Oct. 29, 2009: ‘Koi Pond’
Overnight ratings: 8.14 million viewers, 4.2/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 3rd place, behind the World Series Game 2 and Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Oct. 22, 2009: ‘The Lover’
Overnight ratings: 8.52 million viewers, 4.2/11 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Oct. 15, 2009: ‘Mafia’
Overnight ratings: 8.08 million viewers, 4.0/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Oct. 8, 2009: ‘Niagara’
Overnight ratings: 9.10 million viewers, 4.5/12 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 2nd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Oct. 1, 2009: ‘The Promotion’
Overnight ratings: 7.28 million viewers, 3.7/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 3rd place, behind Grey’s Anatomy and CSI in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Sept. 25, 2009: ‘The Meeting’
Overnight ratings: 7.33 million viewers, 3.8/10 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 3rd place, behind season premieres of Grey’s Anatomy and CSI in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers
Sept. 17, 2009: ‘Gossip’
Overnight ratings: 8.1 million viewers, 4.0/11 rating/share 18-49.
Placement: 1st place, leading Fringe, CSI, Grey’s Anatomy, and Supernatural in rating/share 18-49.
Source: TV By The Numbers, NBC
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The writers aren’t going to change anything. The ratings are fine, and writing staffs don’t write based on ratings anyway.
TV is changing every year. You aren’t going to see Seinfeld like ratings anymore, with more channels to watch, DVR, the internet, etc.
Overall viewers basically has no bearing for renew/cancel decisions. The only thing that matters is 18-49 rating, because that’s all the advertisers care about, and The Office is by far the highest rated 18-49 scripted show that NBC has.
Broadcast TV viewership is down basically across the board, and actually The Office has retained most of its 18-49 rating from last season. I believe it was a 4.2 average last season for new airings and a 4.1 for this season as of a couple weeks ago.
Also, if you look at the past ratings of the show, the spring ratings are always lower than the fall ratings. Less people watch TV in the warmer months, and during sweeps you have NBA and NHL playoffs that attract the 18-34M audience that The Office gets a relatively high draw with.
The average numbers for “The Office” (as well as some other NBC comedies) continue to drop. “The Office” should be fine for the year or two it apparently has left, however. But hopefully the writers are taking note that whatever they’re doing isn’t exactly working for a lot of people. Your average viewers just don’t drop 2 million for no reason.
I agree, I wouldn’t read too much into the numbers this week. The combination of the NFL draft and NBA playoffs had a big affect on the numbers this week. Next week will probably be back to normal.
I think the NFL draft might have affected the ratings. It was a struggle at my house; normally, we watch and DVR The Office, and DVR Fringe. With only two tuners, the draft was a problem, since my husband absolutely will not miss it!
Wonder what was going on. ‘Community’ and ’30 Rock’ had series lows! At least ‘The Office’ won its slot…
[from tanster: thanks denise! :) ]
30 rock got more viewers because march madness ended on the west coast. The office was great but i didn’t watch it until later on the internet because march madness was on. Nothing can compete with march madness!
The ratings have been really solid for The Office this year. Far and away NBC’s highest rated scripted show in the demos. Great to see!
The Office is starting to beat “Grey’s” (It got the same demo, but less viewers) and that show has really fallen.
End on a high, though for season seven!
@ 47. jkfan9989 — I agree. That is weird. A LOT more people tuned in later. I guess people got bored with Grey’s half way through. haha
Woo-hoo! FINALLY beat Grey’s in 18-49! Way to go, Office!
Isn’t it weird that Delivery Part 2 had more overall viewers than Part 1?
Wow! Awesome Numbers which were better than “Niagara.” And it was on NBC.
Well this show isn’t going anywhere for a long time.
Good Numbers. Getting closer to competition…
However, I think that promotion on NBC is lackluster many times. I think “The Office” and “30 Rock” get good (not great) promotion, but “Community” and “Parks and Recreation” hardly get any.
Hope to see the numbers rise when “The Delivery” airs.
Considering The Office went against a MONSTER turnout for the Survivor Heroes vs Villains premiere, this is a good number.
Ratings were higher for the Xmas episode because there was no Grey’s Anatomy. Good to see a higher rating but don’t think it is going to be that way once Grey’s comes back.
The ratings will now be higher because they now use a different system to determine ratings. They finally include online viewings and DVR recordings.
Nice! Great ratings, great Christmas episode! Glad so many people were watching!
This season needs MORE Angela. Please, writers, if you’re reading this, write more Angela. She had more lines in the last episode, that’s why the ratings were higher (just kidding). Loved this season so far.
It figures, the one episode I’m not loving all that much, is number one in the ratings. Yay Office!