Ratings Review: BONES (Season Nine)

You can move it, preempt it, switch it's time slot on a moment's notice, or anything else a network programmer can do and BONES will remain a stable and consistent draw for television viewers. In it's ninth season, FOX's BONES is still one of the best show on the network.

Beginning the season on Monday night's, BONES was off to a very solid start, grabbing over 7 million viewers and a 2.0+ demo rating each week, for the 8 episodes on that very competitive night.

Then, in the middle of November, it was scheduled to move to Friday nights, to make room for the new action drama ALMOST HUMAN. It took a couple of weeks, but BONES was soon back on the ratings track pulling great numbers for a Friday night. It is the first Friday night series to do well there in many years. it looked like the answer for the network to rebuild the night. but, FOX is in such bad shape, that rebuilding would have to wait.

With ALMOST HUMAN not being the hit FOX had hoped, BONES was one the move again, going back to it's Monday night time slot. The good ratings came back with it, although they were down to the normal spring levels.

BONES also did fine in the LIVE+7/DVR ratings, usually getting an additional three million viewers added on to it's total.

For the season, BONES averaged 5.62 million viewers and a 1.4 rating in Adults 18-49, for the 24 airings, including 10 repeat episodes. That is a heavy load for a series, with a lot of repeat episodes. BONES will be back for a 10th and final season and is currently scheduled for a Thursday night, 8 p.m. time slo.

BONES (Mondays at 8 p.m., on FOX)

Date	Viewers*	A18-49	L+3	L+7
09/16/13	7.76	2.3	(2.9)	(3.0)
09/23/13	6.74	1.9
09/30/13	7.26	2.2
10/07/13	7.30	2.1	(2.8)
10/14/13	7.30	2.0
10/21/13	7.60	2.2
10/28/13	preempted
11/04/13	6.97	2.0
11/11/13	7.35	2.0

BONES (Fridays at 8 p.m., on FOX)

Date	Viewers*	A18-49	L+3	L+7
11/15/13	5.18	1.2		7.82 (2.1)
11/22/13	5.78	1.5		8.41
11/29/13	2.89	0.6	(R)
12/06/13	6.91	1.7		9.66 (2.7)
12/13/13	3.49	0.8	(R)
12/20/13	3.42	0.8	(R)
12/27/13	2.83	0.5	(R)
01/03/14	preempted
01/10/14	6.88	1.5		9.77 (2.5)
01/17/14	6.78	1.5		9.79 (2.6)
01/24/14	7.49	1.8		10.35 (2.8)
01/31/14	6.78	1.6		9.37 (2.5)
02/07/14	3.05	0.8	(R)
02/14/14	3.09	0.8	(R)
02/21/14	3.15	0.9	(R)
02/28/14	3.42	0.8	(R)
03/07/14	3.28	0.7	(R)

* - in millions

BONES (Mondays at 8 p.m., on FOX)

Date	Viewers*	A18-49	L+3	L+7
03/10/14	6.55	1.7		9.11 (2.6)
03/17/14	5.63	1.4		8.15 (2.2)
03/24/14	5.82	1.4		8.66 (2.4)
03/31/14	5.72	1.5
04/07/14	6.58	1.6		8.82 (2.4)
04/14/14	5.79	1.4
04/21/14	5.97	1.5
04/28/14	3.99	0.9	(R)
05/05/14	preempted
05/12/14	6.38	1.7
05/19/14	6.07	1.6