'New Amsterdam' Loses 50 Percent Of Audience

The show has now officially lost more than half of its premiere audience after posting a 3.9 rating/6 share, according to Fast National ratings from Nielsen Media Research. That is a significant drop from the 8.3/12 the show premiered with on Fox less than a month ago, and could spell the eventual doom of a show that actually finished behind sagging ratings from "Dexter" on CBS.

Granted, "New Amsterdam" didn't have a tremendous amount of material to work with as its lead-in was a "House" repeat, but it still lost a significant portion of the 4.8/8 the hospital drama was able to garner for Fox, according to Zap2it.

Among the major networks, "New Amsterdam" finished last for its timeslot well behind "Dancing With the Stars" on ABC, comedies on CBS, and "Deal or No Deal" on NBC.

Fox finished fourth for the night with a 4.4/7 behind the 10.5/16 from ABC, the 7.8/12 from CBS, and the 4.8/8 from NBC which had one of the lowest-rated programs of the night in "My Dad is Better Than Your Dad," which had numbers rivaling only The CW.

Fast Nationals usually provide a snapshot of what Americans are watching by pulling numbers from the top urban markets that includes both live viewing and same-day timeshifted viewing. A rating point generally represents more than 1.1 million households while the share indicates the percentage of televisions turned on that was tuned to the specific program. These numbers typically shift when final ratings are issued.

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