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Primetime Ratings: 'Big Brother' Tops Thursday

ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire scored its best numbers yet during its 10th-anniversary run but still finished second to CBS' Big Brother

By Jon Weisman (Daily Variety) -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/14/2009 12:50:17 PM

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire scored its best numbers yet during its 10th-anniversary run, but still finished second among adults 18-49 to Big Brother of CBS, which won Thursday's primetime competish.

Freed from tussling against Fox's So You Think You Can Dance, which ended its summer run last week, Big Brother improved to a 2.6 rating and 9 share among adults 18-49 at 8 p.m. and 7.6 million viewers overall, according to preliminary nationals from Nielsen.

Click here to read the full article on Variety.com.

Jon Weisman writes for B&C sister publication Daily Variety.

 

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