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UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers 
It was the Grinch (as played by Sue Sylvester) vs. Charlie Brown in the mostly Christmas-themed 8 PM time slot last night. Fox’s Glee (4.4/13, 11 million), topped the hour and the night in adults 18-49 but slipped a tenth from last week’s fast national demo rating (It was down two tenths from the Live+Same day number as Glee normally rises by a tenth in the finals.)
Heading into the live season finale next Tuesday, The Biggest Loser (3.1/8, 8.2 million, up 7% in the demo) hit a season high in adults 18-49, posting a second week of ratings growth in its new 9-11 PM slot. Its lead-in, the premiere of the Christmassy batch of Minute to Win It (1.9/5) was down 21% from its last cycle premiere.
The Christmas-themed Raising Hope (2.9/8) was up 7% to log its best performance since Week 2. And Running Wilde (1.7/4), which did not get a back order, is putting up quite a fight for survival, up 21% week-to-week after last week posting a 8% gain following another stretch of preemptions.
Ditto for CW’s Life Unexpected. With only a two-hour season finale/series finale left, the drama last night hit season highs in total viewers (1.8 million, up 20% from last week) and all key demos, including 18-34 (1.5/4). Its lead-in, veteran One Tree Hill (2.2 million, 1.3/4) also hit a season high in total viewers, up 22% from last week, as CW logged its most watched Tuesday of the season.
ABC’s Charlie Brown Christmas (2.6/7) was down 30% from the classic special’s airing last year. No Ordinary Family (1.9/5) held steady in its new temporary 9 PM home, while Detroit 1-8-7 continued to fade, down 13% from last week for a new series low. CBS’ aired all-reruns, led by NCIS (2.0/6, 11.8 million), which was still the most watched program of the night.
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No Ordinary Family is getting lousy ratings, and I expect it to be canceled. Raising Hope scored a 2.9, and had it’s highest ratings since September. I know Fox must be happy with it.
I love Raising Hope but it conflicts with other shows I watch so I have to watch Raising Hope online. I really hope the show sticks around and maybe consider a day/time change.
No Ordinary Family is a good show. I hope it sticks around, too.
LUX is the little show that could…if only it could have gotten these ratings earlier on in the season…
I like Liz Tigelaar. She seems sweet. Cable nets like FX and AMC order 13 season orders all the time. It seems like the CW has too many reruns.
They should still air their core series in 22 episode sets (could be even more for 90210, with the original clocking in at 27-30). Then air a mini 13 episode season for a show like LUX (like I guess they’re doing now). Didn’t One Tree Hill share a time slot with Gossip Girl or something a few years back? I don’t know all the economics behind it.
But arguing the con, the CW is all about being fresh and young, so like the fashion world or like rookies at the combine, its gotta bring us something new. Vampire Diaries shows they have potential to get bigger ratings than a lot of their shows (besides LUX).
ABC Family launched Pretty Little Liars in June, there’s no reason The CW can’t air 1 to 2 original drama series in June like a cable network.
Also, I’m going to be pissed if 90210 doesn’t send the entire cast to fictional California University. They referenced it last year (with a fake Bear mascot and NOT the original’s Condor). But I heard USC and UCLA referenced this season which pissed me the F off (CU had its own crosstown rival). I know you want to be new but little references here and there to the original are cool. Like have the gals all shack up in a beach house like the original and Dixon and Teddy can rush the same frat that Steve was in. Also, someone could date a militant chicano studies major like AC Slater did on Saved By The Bell the College Years. I also think there should be an anti-social vixen from a working class background (like Valerie, and more recently Gossip Girl’s Juliet) that brings hell on the gang. She could be from the valley. I love the working class vixen trope.
I wish the CW would realize that many people watch more than just Gossip Girl online at their site. I really like LUX and I hope that they keep it around. Even if they only have it as a midseason replacement for next year. It has a loyal fanbase and if anyone should understand loyal fanbases it should be the CW.
So maybe I’m not the only one who stuck with ‘Running Wilde’ after all. Never understood the hate for this show. Great fun, always laugh out loud bits, which I’ve learnt to not expect from sitcoms lately.
Amen. I really like this show too. I think if viewers and the network will give it a chance it will grow itself an audience. I think it would blow up on Sunday nights. I know we are all excited to watch a third Christian Slater vehicle get cancelled in as many seasons, but its a shame this show has to go away for it to happen.
Dear CW, Don’t make the mistake of cancelling a show just when it’s hitting its stride. Last night was an amazing night, with One Tree Hill’s hurricane/crazy Katie plot; and the jaw-droppingly great Life Unexpected. See, people WILL watch in greater numbers WHEN THERE’S SOMETHING HAPPENING ON THE SHOW. Too often, OTH and LUX have been talky-talky, feel-good, mushy nonsense. No plot movement. Not the case last night. I was on the edge of my seat for two hours.
Why not simply mandate to both showrunners that the stories must be “amped up” to the modern viewers’ short attention-span, meaning: STUFF MUST HAPPEN, EARLY AND OFTEN. Then, you’ll have two quality shows with loyal fanbases to build from.
This isn’t rocket science….there are too many TV choices for shows to rest on their laurels and offer boring stories.
CBS has LUX’s Kristofer Polaha signed to a talent hold deal and I have heard they have him lined up to star in their Wild Wild West remake as James West.
Love LUX! They need to rethink their decision to end it.
I wish the CW would realize that LUX has a loyal fanbase too. My family and I watch the show every Tuesday. The CW should cater to more than just the teen soap crowd. Remember when The WB was home to Everwood and Gilmore Girls? Anything else put in the Tuesday slot is going to struggle more than LUX has. LUX even brings in better ratings than some of the so-called “hot” shows on the network. If they do decide to go through with cancelling this great series it would be nice to see a network like ABC Family step in and save the show. It would fit their brand perfectly.
I hope that LUX can be saved….it’s one of my favorite shows…the story lines are on the serious side lately but overall it has a great deal of possibility…
I really hope there is still some way to bring back Life Unexpected. I wish more people liked good tv
Detroit 1-8-7 is one of the best new shows this season (The “Nobody’s Home/Unknown Soldier” episode has got to be one of the best single episodes I’ve seen of any show)–not that you would know it from the way ABC does their advertising. It would be a struggle for someone (who had not seen the show), to describe the structure and/or the characters (you know, the reasons to watch a show). What’s unfortunate is that it’s against The Good Wife, which is one of the best written shows on air right now.
No Ordinary Family was pitched in its promos as this quaky, silly, fun, light-hearted show (Jule Benz running so fast passing cars on the freeway), instead it’s leaning towards a dark, sad, violent Heroes typetone(and we know what happened with that show). When it actually focuses on the family (using their powers as a framework to hash out family “issues” like the Vigilante episode) it actually is one of the better (albeit a bit not typical) family shows on air.
No Ordinary Family is actually a nice little series… I don’t think it is dark at all yet and if the writing stays in the same way, it shouldn’t get any darker until the season finale.
LUX is/was a great show, GG/Everwood comparisons aside, CW produces nothing but trash at the moment and it was the one highlight on the network.
Running Wilde given the time is actually a laugh out loud comedy, it will be gone by the end of the season though…
Detroit 187 is also a good traditional well-executed cop show which several years ago would have done very very well.
This season has been one of the most poorly executed ones in terms of new programming ever, nothing has been particulary outstanding!