wpostServer: http://css.washingtonpost.com/wpost

The Post Most: EntertainmentMost-viewed stories,videos, and galleries in the past two hours

Trove link goes here

Going Out Guide

GOG Blog

AFI Docs begins June 19. Here are four films to look forward to.

AFI Docs begins June 19. Here are four films to look forward to.

A mere 53 films were hand-picked from 1,929 submissions, and the just-announced slate (unsurprisingly) looks promising.

Ten things to look forward to at this year's Capital Fringe Festival

Ten things to look forward to at this year's Capital Fringe Festival

Fringe is still two months away, but details about the performances, food and decor are starting to trickle out.

Best Bets

More Best Bets

Recently Reviewed Restaurants

More Recently Reviewed Restaurants

TV Column
Posted at 05:39 PM ET, 06/22/2012

Justin Bieber TV special sinks in ratings


“Justin Bieber: All Around the World” (NBC - WILL HART/NBC)

You’ve probably already read about how poorly Justin Bieber’s two-night NBC special “Justin Bieber: All Around the World” following him him on his “whirlwind” global tour, and plugging his new album dropping this week, did in the ratings relative to its broadcast TV competition.

Wednesday night’s Bieber-cast clocked just 3.02 million viewers, finishing in the 8 p.m. hour behind CBS’s new “Dogs in the City” (5 million), Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” (6.8 million), and ABC’s “The Middle” (4.0 million) and “Suburgatory” (3.3 million) reruns.

Likewise, Thursday night’s Bieber-cast scored an average of 3.1 million viewers, coming in behind ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel pre-NBA play special (3.2 million) and NBA walk-up show (6.4 million), behind CBS’s repeats of “Big Bang Theory” (8.4 million) and “2 Broke Girls” (7.1 million), and even Fox’s dating competition “Take Me Out” (3.2 million).

But maybe you did not know that Biebs scored fewer viewers than Bill O’Reilly both nights? FNC’s “The O’Reilly Factor” averaged about 3.3 million viewers each night at 8.

The teenaged YouTube sensation-turned-pop star did, however, beat O’Reilly both nights among O’Reilly’s target audience of 25-54 year old viewers. Biebs snagged about twice as many 25-54 year olds as did O’Reilly each night.

And, O’Reilly fared better among viewers aged 50 and older.

But, turns out, around half of Biebs’s audience each night was aged 50 years or older.

Wednesday night the 18-year-old averaged 1.4 million viewers aged 50 and up; Thursday that climbed to 1.6 million.

By  |  05:39 PM ET, 06/22/2012

Loading...

Comments

Add your comment
 
Read what others are saying About Badges
     

    © 2011 The Washington Post Company
    Section:/blogs/tv-column