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NBC is making changes on Monday in midseason and they can’t come soon enough as the network had another dismal ratings performance last night, with none of its series crossing the 2 demo rating mark. Chuck (1.8/5, 5.5 million) came the closest, down 10% from its last original 2 weeks ago (it was preempted for Matt Lauer’s interview with George W. Bush last Monday) and tying its series low. In total viewers, it drew its largest audience since premiere week. Freshmen The Event (1.7/4) and Chase (1.2/3) were both flat, tying last week’s all-time lows. NBC (1.6/4, 5.3 million) finished a distant fourth for the night.
ABC’s Dancing with the Stars (4.0/10, 20.6 million), which switched from a two-hour to a 90-minute format, was flat with last week’s season low for a performance show but will probably adjust up in the finals. With Dancing shrunk to 90 minutes, ABC ran a rerun of The Middle (2.3/6) at 9:30 PM to get additional exposure for the underrated sophomore comedy, which has been doing solid business at 8 PM on Wednesday. Castle (2.5/7) was flat with last week and currently tying its season low.
With a Middle repeat instead of original Dancing to go against at 9:30 PM, CBS’ new comedy Mike & Molly (3.8/9, 12.3 million) perked up, up 9% from last week in 18-49. Its lead-in, veteran Two and a Half Men (4.5/11, 14.1 million) was also up, by 5%, and ranked as the highest-rated program of the night in 18-49. How I Met Your Mother (3.5/10, 8.9 million) was flat while Rules of Engagement (2.9/7, 8 million) and Hawaii Five-0 (2.8/8, 10.2 million) were both down a tenth to tie their season/series low. Hawaii still won the 10 PM hour in viewers and all key demos. CBS (3.4/9, 10.6 million) won the night in 18-49 while ABC was tops in total viewers (3.2/8, 15.3 million)
Fox’s dramas rose for a second consecutive week. House (4.0/11, 10.8 million) was up 8% and hit a season high in total viewers. Lie to Me (2.0/5, 6 million) was up 11% and also drew its largest audience this season. Fox (3.0/8, 8.4 million) finished third for the night.
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And this is news? Is this a slow news day? Why not report on the latest syndication deal for the Brady Bunch or Veronica’s Closet or Family Matters?
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anyone notice “Son of the Beach” is back on Spike? So f’n funny!
Wow. I’m surprised that nikki would report something good about a republican actor, such as Kevin James.
Wow. I’m so surprised that a brain dead poster like Jon is so obsessed with the politics of Kevin James that he forgot to post his sheep like approval of said politics on the right thread.
Seriously, does NBC think by making changes to its schedule it will do any better? Just moving awful shows that nobody wants to watch from one day to another won’t make any difference. The only show that might benefit from the moves is L&O:SVU going YET AGAIN back to its 10pm spot. The place it should have been, but at NBC, they never learn. Having said that, L&O:SVU will get Chase as its lead-in, so again, getting no help whatsoever from NBC.
Oh, The Event going on hiatus for whatever amount of time, in other words, RIP.
I will be shocked if Comcast was to keep any of the people behind NBC. The only people worth their money is the people behind their cable properties and USA Network.
The Event isn’t going anywhere, IMO. The only thing that’s happening is that the D.O.A. superhero series “The Cape” is getting its chance to crash and burn in the 9pm Monday slot in January. I say this as a longime comic book reader and superhero fan: The costume is preposterous and the premise is old hat (even for superheroes.) The awfulness of the costume alone assures that it’ll get cancelled no later than the second or third week, especially given that it’ll have a two-hour premiere on a Sunday night ala 24 and last season’s premiere of Chuck.
IMO, what NBC needs to do is STOP juggling around the schedule. Worst thing they can do in the continuing aftermath of Lenogate is continue to make shows needlessly difficult to find. They need stability in the line-up, with only minimal swapping-in of new shows, no unnecessary hiatuses for existing shows and few, if any, switches of timeslots — moving Parenthood to Mondays at 10pm being the only move of an existing show that I currently agree with.
— Rob
IMHO, very impressive Hawaii Five-O last night. Whoever is casting that show, is doing an excellent job for parts that may see only 5-10 minutes of screen time.
Action quotient is a TAD high (do these guys get in gun battles EVERY week?? Wouldn’t someone higher-up start wondering about how much AMMO the dept. is chewing through??), but it does continue to be entertaining, and moves briskly. So far each show is largely self-contained, but there are enough recurring characters and references to past episodes to keep it consistent, w/o resorting to ‘flashbacks,’ ‘callbacks,’ and every other kind of ‘back.’
It’s just a fun show, so far.
I thought it was very boring. I only watched the first half. The banter was tiresome. I could see from the start who the killer was. And the sound was terrible. Snooze
Shouldn’t you know what your talking about if your writing for a popular industry website like this?
Last night was DWTS performance show. Not the results show. It increased it’s ratings from last weeks performance show and the show is doing even better at this time than last season which was the most talked about season they had up until this one.
Kinda an odd spin you put on fantastic numbers.
The Event GAINED 210,000 viewrs. Get it right, Negative Nellie. from 5.5 to 5.7million. First time the show has had an uptick but of course let’s not report that as the haters would get upset.
I watched 90210 the Gay Storyline has me hooks.
Mandy, I’m not the only one that noticed the sound quality of CBS shows is off? I thought I was losing my mind!! Notice how their dramas have CONSTANT music playing TOO loud in the background of scenes that don’t need music.