The Last Chuck Ratings: Time-shifting Report for the Week of January 23rd

The Live + 7 day ratings data is in for the week from January 23^rd to January 29^th, 2012 and that sadly means the very last time a new episode of Chuck will appear in a Nielsen report. All that remains now is the inevitable move of the reruns to some cable network yet to be named. Who knows if we’ll even know what ratings it will get.

While one would think that the finale of a 5-year series would draw a higher than normal increase in viewing, Chuck’s finale only got a 29% lift for Live + 7 over Live + Same Day.

Still, the Live + 7 rating for “Chuck vs the Goodbye”(1.68) was the highest of the fifth season. The rating for “Chuck vs. Sarah”(1.52) was 3^rd highest. Second highest was the Season 5 premiere, which garnered a 1.59 back in October.

No Season 5 episode even matched the lowest rated episodes of Season 4 for Adults 18-49. Three episodes in Season 4 tied for the season low of 1.78. However, “Chuck vs. The Goodbye” did have higher total viewers (5.109 million) than two season 4 episodes (“Final Details” and “Wedding Planner”).

Top 21 Time-shifted Programs:


Here are Chuck’s season 5 averages:

• Live 18-49 rating: 0.79
• Live + Same Day 18-49 rating: 0.98
• Live + 7 Days 18-49 rating: 1.35
• Live + 7 days total viewers: 4.29 million (Median Age: 50.8)
• Percentage of Chuck’s viewers season 5 who were aged 2 to 11: 4%
• Percentage of Chuck’s viewers who were 55 or older: 40%
• Episode with the lowest number of viewers: “Chuck vs. the Bearded Bandit” with 3.87 million

Elsewhere on the Time-shifting ranker, Fringe had another big lift of 75%. Josh Schwartz’s Hart of Dixie came in second and Whitney (?) came in third.

Castle and Alcatraz also made the top six with lifts just below 50%.