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NBC’s The Voice was the top show in the adults 18-49 demographic on Tuesday in primetime, earning a preliminary 4.5 rating and 9.9 million total viewers to give the network the nightly demo win. It wasn’t such good news for Fox’s Breaking In, which the network moved to its Tuesday night comedy block after canceling it last week, suggesting it might be rethinking its move to end the show. Lacking its usual American Idol lead-in, however, the sitcom managed only a 1.4 demo rating and 3.2 million viewers behind Raising Hope (up 10% with a 2.2 rating). Breaking In fared better than Traffic Light in the slot, up 8%, but that’s probably not good enough to give it a reprieve.
CBS won the night in total viewers and was up across the board, with the season finale of The Good Wife (2.5 rating) up 25% compared with last week leading the way. The finale of NCIS (3.8) was up 9% over last week, and NCIS: LA (3.2) grew 13% from last week and 19% compared with last May’s finale.
On ABC, a Dancing With the Stars special (2.4) was up 14% from last week; the results show (3.5) was up 3%. The season finale of Body Of Proof (2.2) was up 5% over last week. On The CW, the series finale of Hellcats drew 1.2 million viewers and a 0.5 rating.
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Gotta say it was really lovely of Fox to make the decision to move the show over the weekend and then hope they could promote its Tuesday slot well enough. I know a number of people who didn’t know that it wasn’t going to be on on Wednesday this week and missed it as a result.
So, lemme get this straight. You cancel a show, THEN, move it to a different time slot to see if it picks up more viewers?! That is the dum–
Nevermind I’ll just use one of their marketing slogans. That’s SO Fox!
Exactly! How can they expect to get an accurate idea of the show’s popularity when they stop after only 7 episodes as people are just starting to notice the show, and then change it to Tuesday night so that even those that do follow the show didn’t know to when to watch it!
moving a shows time slot is a proven method of improving ratings…wait no scratch that reverse it.
Maybe if Fox announced the switch from Wednesday to Tuesday more than a week, more people would’ve seen it. But nope, fox had to decide to change it 5 days before with little advertising to alert fans.
The only one’s who knew about the change was deadline readers and fans of Mr. Rosenbaums twitter account. Fox is crap, will always be crap, I’m done with ‘em.
Ridiculous. Breaking In was set up to fail with this move. This is a solid and unique show that needs a real chance to grow and find an audience. To put it in poker terms, canceling it now is like folding before you see the river.
That’s a bummer as I was one of the ones to give it a try at it’s new time slot. I thought it was funny. Like a 30 Rock set in a security company — only not nearly as smooth.
Though it took 30 Rock a season to find it’s voice too.
Shows get cancelled far too early nowadays.
It’s pretty obvious that FOX just moved the show so that it would drop in the ratings. Now they can make it sound like they tried to save it and use the lower ratings as a justification for giving it the axe. In their minds that’s how to handle the outcry of disapproval the cancellation announcement caused: In reality it really makes no sense and everyone knows that FOX is full of shit. Good job guys, you managed to screw over another great show.
Suck it, “Breaking In” fans. Your show’s awful.
All it had to do was keep some of the viewers who were watching “Raising Hope.” As soon as it came on, everyone ran away like bin Laden when the Seals showed up.
Now your dreadful show is dead too…
Thank you. The show is terrible. Lack of quality is the reason for the drops (it dropped BEFORE the move, as well people), not the fact that Fox doesn’t support it. It couldn’t retain much of an audience from RAISING HOPE.
Oh yeah, because a show that has only had 7 episodes is comparable to one that has had 22. Add in the fact that it was a different time slot for breaking in and you’ve got yourself a big bag of shut the fuck up, troll.
looks like someone is looking forward to all the female programming FOX has lined up for the fall.
Good. I wanted its cancellation to stick.
It was always going to stay cancelled. Any idea of a reprieve was a PR push by Sony.
Breaking In only had the numbers it did because it was behind Idol, not because it was successful. If they had put it behind Raising Hope from the start, it would have failed just like Traffic Light. Good grief.
Again, TRUTH. Thank you. I can understand liking a show and supporting it, but facts are facts. It sucked.
“I understand liking a show…but it sucked” Then really you don’t understand those that like the show because we do not feel it sucks.
In fact, I don’t find Raising Hope funny at all, but I understand that people do like it. I feel no need to denigrate the show or the people who like it by saying it “sucked”.
it’s sad that people come on to boards just to post hate filled comments.
I don’t think “It sucked” is much of a fact…
Don’t be a dick. The show was fine. It just was not given the opportunity to blossom. It could have at least gotten 2 or 3 seasons strong. Look at Glee for instance, crap show but its still going strong because it was given the chance to do so.
They should have tried to make the move the week beforehand, but whatever. It’s done now.
What a bad year for Sony TV.
Damn! Was really hoping to see it do well…. I really liked Breaking In…
While I am sad to see the numbers this morning for Breaking In I am not surprised. Don’t get me wrong, I love the show and have been fighting to save it but when FOX decided just days before to move it to a new date and time it was bound to come in lower that it previously had. The fact of the matter is that even with the move and zero advertising on Fox’s part it still did better than Traffic Light when it was getting the full PR push.
Fox really screwed up by canceling Breaking In but like a fellow poster noted, I am sure they will use last night’s numbers to prove why they did it. The truth is I am sure that the DVR numbers will roll in for the show after the fact but by then it won’t matter. Fox will use the initial figures as a justification for their actions which is just plain stupid.
Maybe if it didn’t cost the studio so much $$ to produce what should be a simple and inexpensive show the show runners would have been given a second chance. Too bad, there were some talented and dedicated people on that crew.
Why no numbers for “The Biggest Loser”?
Traffic Light was UBER LAME..Breaking In was VERY funny. FOX was just the WRONG place for the show. PERIOD. Why so negative…FOX SUCKS!
I really liked this show and you are right no one except people who go on these entertainment sites knew it was on last night. Luckily I had it set on the DVR to record but it really confused my boyfriend when I put it on last night. Silly Fox..
That was meant to be @ brick. Comment system doesn’t work on my phone
What about L&O: L.A., which had maybe its best episode yet.
Just keeps getting better since the re-tool, aaannnd…canceled.
NBC tools.
You’re right, facts are facts. This is an opinion though. I loved this show. It was aimed at nerds and geeks though, so for people who don’t care about pop culture icons like Goonies, Transformers, and all things comic con related, I could sew how you would think it sucks. You probably think Big Bang Theory sucks too, but that’s your opinion too. Fact is that it isn’t your taste. Doesn’t mean you have to insult it though.
I should have said, @haha. Don’t want to confuse anyone.
I really feel FOX should have left Breaking In on Wednesday if they had no intentions of promoting the switch to Tuesday. This show has a large fan base, and if anything the ratings would have gone UP with that fan base assuming the finale was Wednesday. As has been mentioned here, had it not been for twitter pages, or facebook, what viewers did tune in may not have. I really think FOX should look deep into itself and go back to its roots and take chances. Agreed, not all shows deserve chances, but Breaking In was the highest tested pilot, held very good numbers before the unpromoted schedule change, and has an establisge fan base that’s only expanding daily. FOX, please take one last chance and order at least an abbreviated second season of this truly unique and promising show!
It’s been ages and ages and yet networks are still pulling the same old bs to force a cancellation of a new hot show that they for some odd reason don’t personally like. MOVE IT’S AIR DATE FROM IT’S ORIGINAL TIME SLOT TO SOME RANDOM NEW TIME SLOT. I loved this show and I had no clue that it was moved from Wednesday to Tuesday until after it already aired and obviously I wasn’t the only one that was tricked since the shows viewers dropt to half on it’s last night. BS JUST BS !!!!! FU FOX!!!
Why not just move the show to FX channel Fox? Or sale it to another network. It has more then strong enough numbers for a network like The CW.
The show is funny so suck it
Ugh.
This is why FOX is the most frustrating and annoying network on TV. They do the stupidest things with their unique shows and destroy any hope they have of succeeding.
The only exception is Fringe, which apparently survives simply because a high up exec is a personal fan and wants to see how it ends.
Breaking In was my #1 favorite show on tv right now. Not favorite NEW show, favorite show.
It was hilarious. It was cool. It was interesting. It had great spy/break-in/con-man type story lines. The actors were great. Slater was great. Lex Luthor stole the show!
Its a Happy Madison show, maybe Adam Sandler can get it on another network.
Michael: But don’t you think that with it’s lightning-fast jokes and 2-second flashbacks, “Breaking In” wasn’t giving its individual moments enough time to breathe and resonate?
Didn’t “Breaking In” sort of feel like a really good 60-minute show edited down to 30?
I know you’re tempted to write some variation of “No” and “No” to these two questions but I’d love to get a more considered and reflective answer. (Sample response: “Okay, how about ‘HELL no!’”)