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The premiere of CBS’ Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior drew a 3.3 rating/10 share in adults 18-49 and 12.9 million viewers last night. It dominated the 10 PM hour, built slightly on its lead-in, mothership Criminal Minds series (3.2/9, 12.8 million) and ranked as CBS’ top-rated program of the night. Vs. the premiere of The Defenders in the same slot in September, Suspect Behavior was up 14% in the demo.
CBS’ Survivor was impacted by its new regular competition, Fox’s American Idol. The debut of Survivor: Redemption Island (3.2/9, 11.2 million), the first season premiere of the veteran reality show to face Idol, was down 29% from the show’s spring premiere last season in its old Thursday 8 PM slot. It was Survivor‘s lowest-rated opener and lowest-rated regular telecast ever. Survivor didn’t go down without a fight. It dinged Idol a bit, with the 8-9 PM portion of the singing competition slipping 14% from last Wednesday.
Fox’s American Idol aired a two-hour episode (8.1/23, 22.8 million), which was down 4% from last week’s hourlong show. Vs. the comparable episode last season, Idol was down 21% but that episode was highly promoted as it featured the debut of Ellen DeGeneres as new judge. Extending Idol from an hour to two-hour this week pushed the 9 PM shows down. For instance, Criminal Minds was down 11%.
But the drops were steepest at ABC where the Matthew Perry starrer Mr. Sunshine (2.6/7, 7 million) was down a whopping 30% in the demo from its premiere last week. Its lead-in, Modern Family (4.3/12, 10.5 million) was down 16%. Adding Survivor to Idol as competition took a toll on the 8-9 PM ABC comedies. The Middle (2.3/7, 8 million) at 8 PM was down 12% in 18-49 for a season low, while Better with You (1.8/5, 5.9 million) was down 14% for a series low. There was more bad news for ABC at 10 PM, where medical drama Off the Map (1.5/4, 4.3 million) was down 21% in the demo for a series low.
NBC’s once promising game show Minute to Win It (1.0/3 from 8-10 PM) was crushed, down 41% from last week. Law & Order: SVU (2.2/6) was down 15%. The CW aired repeats.
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sunshine’s a failure, but at least samie’s quoted in usa today
magic and chemistry indeed. good thing she doesn’t take herself too seriously.
Sunshine looks like a bad Matthew Perry movie stretched out over 22 episodes. I don’t know if people really missed seeing him on TV. I sure didn’t.
I love matthew perry and do miss him but not sure if this is the show. He’s a great actor.
i actually forgot survivor was on, ugh.
I’m not fan of Minute to Win It…but gotta feel for any non-arc reality show that is up against arc reality series like Idol and Survivor in the same timeslot. They should move it stat
It’ll be interesting to see how well CM: SB hold over the next few weeks. That hour has seen decent debuts, but also steep declines and Suspect Behavior, despite a well-known cast, was about as awful as all the early reports said.
Suspect Behavior was a disappointment on every level. Such a gifted cast but they had bad material to work with. They should’ve let Jeff Davis work his magic on this one like the original.
Yeah, this was a pale imitation of the original. When CM’s characters stride around, it means something urgent is at stake. When CM:SB’s characters do the same, it just seems like a lot of walking that’s trying to generate excitement. And talk about an undistinctive bunch of characters…sheesh. Whitaker and Garafalo are the only ones given something to play here.
CM SB was such crap. It’ll major drop next week. And too bad for Mr. Sunshine. I liked it.
Criminal Minds SB was amazing . It is a perfet fit for the Original.
CBS finally has a hit this season.
ummm, blue bloods is not a hit for cbs???? Or mike and molly???
I didn’t think I’d like CMSB as a loyal viewer of CM but I did. Surprisingly good.
There are only so many ways you can soften the fact that AI is down before you accept that their glory days are over and they are done.
Don’t kill AI yet — it’s still the elephant in the room, stomping on everybody. other networks WISH it had AI’s numbers. And other networks are copying its format: X Factor and Voices. It aint over yet, sir.
Off The Map is soft core porn for women. But I guess that’s how women have been presented by men on TV for years. Everybody deserves some fun. Just wish Off The Map had better stories. The show is a real opportunity.
Off The Map is pretty terrible. I’ve never seen a single episode of Grey’s Anatomy, but if this is what people have been watching for the last 8 years or whatever, wow. From a setting standpoint one thing I can’t quite get is where exactly are they? Is it a rural setting? Near a city? In the pilot it was presented as the middle-of-nowhere deep jungle, yet there are tourists everywhere doing tourist things, a seemingly big town with a social life, cruise ships, people casually decide to get in/get out on the next flight … then the next minute there’s a massive medical crisis and suddenly the clinic is deep in the jungle, completely cut off from the outside world. It’s just sloppy, and it doesn’t have to be.
Why would an oscar winner be starring in a tv series?
Ask Holly Hunter (Saving Grace) or William Hurt (Damages). The best writing in Hollywood is more consistently on television than in movies. If you don’t want to do comic book movies and tentpole summer films or manboy comedies, but you still want to work and make a living, TV is a reasonable alternative. Richard Dreyfuss, Marcia Gay Harden and Ellen Burstyn have also tried their hand at a tv series. Oscar caliber actors like Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin and Glen Close have also done series.
Mr. Sunshine is a disaster. There’s no show there. The writers have thrown everything against the wall and nothing has stuck. But TV media will never stop fawning over it only because it stars a Friend.
OMG. Mr Sunshine is so bad it brings back memories of another ABC classic 1/2hr called “In Case of Emergency”. I didn’t laugh once when I viewed Mr Sunshine last night.
CM:SB was awful. Uninspired, cliche, and unneeded. Cardboard cutout characters and production that reeks of “24″. The original is awesome and different; this was a blatantly mercinary attempt to cash in on the name with little of the substance. You couldn’t tell any of the actors had talent.
I’ve been watching CM:SB from the beginning and was hoping it would get better but it has actually gotten worse. I agree the writing is not great but Forest Whitaker is too over the top IMHO. This is the last one I will be watching.
I enjoy CM, and thought that I would enjoy CM:SB, but when I saw that Jeanene G was on the cast, killed this idea. She is so rude and I refuse to watch anything that she appears.