TV Show Ratings for Friday, 04/15/11 [finals]

CBS’ new dramedy, CHAOS had another lousy week but at least it didn’t drop any lower. How soon before it’s cancelled? The kick-off of the final season of Friday Night Lights did just as poorly over on NBC but then many viewers have already seen those episodes on DirecTV or bought the DVD set.

ABC’s Shark Tank had a a nice bump, giving the reality series it’s best Friday ratings of the season and outperformed previous timeslot holder Supernanny. It was business as usual for Primetime and 20/20.

On the The CW, Smallville recovered from last week’s drop and Supernatural dropped a bit. And over at FOX, Kitchen Nightmares was flat and Fringe matched its last original episode from March.

8pm
CHAOS
– 5.683 million viewers
– 3.4/6 HH
– 1.0/3 A18-49 (+11.1%)

Shark Tank
– 5.282 million viewers
– 3.2/6 HH
– 1.5/5 A18-49 (+25.0%)

Kitchen Nightmares
– 3.910 million viewers
– 2.4/4 HH
– 1.6/6 A18-49 (+6.7%)

Friday Night Lights
– 3.574 million viewers
– 2.3/4 HH
– 0.9/3 A18-49 (new)

Smallville
– 2.374 million viewers
– 1.4/3 HH
– 1.0/4 A18-49 (+11.1%)
– 1.0/4 A18-34
– 0.8/3 W18-34 (+33.3%)

9pm
CSI: NY (r)
– 7.356 million viewers
– 4.6/8 HH
– 1.1/3 A18-49

Dateline (120 min)
– 5.849 million viewers
– 4.0/7 HH
– 1.4/4 A18-49 (+7.7%)

Primetime: What Would You Do?
– 4.235 million viewers
– 2.6/4 HH
– 1.4/4 A18-49 (0%)

Fringe
– 3.645 million viewers
– 2.2/4 HH
– 1.4/4 A18-49 (0%)

Supernatural
– 2.257 million viewers
– 1.4/2 HH
– 0.9/3 A18-49 (-10.0%)
– 0.9/3 A18-34
– 0.9/3 W18-34 (-10.0%)

10pm
Blue Bloods (r)
– 7.942 million viewers
– 5.0/9 HH
– 1.0/3 A18-49

20/20
– 5.063 million viewers
– 3.4/6 HH
– 1.5/5 A18-49 (0%)

Raw ratings data copyright Nielsen, courtesy MediaWeek.