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It looks like ABC has a hit on its hands with Once Upon A Time. In its second airing, the fairytale drama drew a 3.9 rating/10 share in 18-49, matching the fast national for its series premiere last week. (It was adjusted up to a 4.0, which will likely happen this time, too.) Once Upon A Time has emerged as the breakout broadcast drama hit this fall and is certain to land a full-season order shortly. It has been a big fall for series with fairytale elements with NBC’s Grimm also opening well on Friday. The other ABC originals last night, Desperate Housewives (3.1/7) and Pan Am (1.9/5) both went up a tenth.
Fox’s new animated series Allen Gregory (2.4/6) was off to a slow start behind the highly rated annual The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror (4.0/10), which was up 8% from last year’s Halloween special and up 33% from the last Simpsons original 4 weeks ago. Allen Gregory was well below Fox’s most recent animated series premieres, Bob’s Burgers (4.5/11) in January, which also aired behind The Simpsons but the entire Fox Sunday lineup was bolstered by a big NFL overrun that night, and The Cleveland Show (5.3/13) in September 2009. Is Fox’s back-nine order to Bob’s Burgers on the same morning Allen Gregory’s premiere numbers came in below par a coincidence? At 9 PM, Family Guy (3.2/7) was down 9% from its last original 4 weeks ago. A special The Cleveland Show (2.3/5) aired at 9:30 PM.
NBC won the night with Sunday Night Football, which recovered from last week’s low to post a 14.7 overnight rating/23 share, up 79% from last week and 25% from last year’s Week 8 game, which faced Game 4 of The World Series.
CBS’ lineup was once again shifted by an NFL overrun, with 60 Minutes starting at 7:29 PM. The venerable newsmagazine posted a football lead-in-inflated 4.2/11 in 18-49. The halo effect carried over to The Amazing Race (2.9/7, 10.9 million), which was up 7% from last week in 18-49 and posted its largest audience of the seaosn. The Good Wife (2.0/5) was flat, while CSI: Miami (2.0/5) was down 5%.
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I’m happy for Jennifer Morrison( who i believe was hotter than Olivia Wilde on House though not in general)who left the now sinking ship called House and found a great new show that’s now a ratings hit. Now if she can only get more lines cuz seem like she’s reduced to a bit player on the show ( is it just em or is the other characters more fleshed out than hers?)
Morrison, at this stage, has the hardest part as all the “Storybook” characters are obviously more flamboyant and interesting— yet Morrison must be the center of the entire flight of fantasy whilst all revolves around her for now. Tough acting as she serves as the window into the surreal surroundings, yet must seem real as all are over the top and she must anchor the show and prepare us for the rest of the “fairytale” and its denouement.
Amazingly clever, high quality program that reminds me of the best of 50/60′s Disney TV, but with a 21st century absurdist twist.
Stories like this may cause me to watch Once Upon a Time.
Well, the second episode was way better than the pilot, so don’t get discouraged while catching up!
It’s a cute show with an engaging premise. I’m glad ABC gave it shot and didn’t flood the market with more cop/forensics crap show.
I do wish they could’ve gotten a child actor more engaging than the kid they have playing the son. He’s the intro for the viewer into the world and he’s painfully unegaging.
I love that little boy! I think he’s a terrific actor and very engaging.
It’s a lovely show… Hope it keeps these kind of ratings up.
Wow Paul Lee has been an invaluable player for Disney. He got ABC Family to where it is today and it looks like he’s preventing ABC from becoming the disaster NBC has become like so many have been predicting would happen. They at least owe him a very expensive fruit basket!
That’s because Bob Greenblatt didn’t have time to completely put his stamp on the fall lineup. The shows at midseason, Awake and Smash and The Firm are his shows. Most of the shows that he picked up for fall were developed by the old regime.
Actually, little known fact:
ABC has had a ratings slide equal to NBC since the writers strike.
However, ABC just may be able to recover earlier than NBC.
With Pan Am and Once Upon a Time, ABC is showing signs of being able to produce quality content, that at least some of the time also pays off in ratings. (Hopefully they will not give up on Pan Am, which really needs OUaT as a lead-in.)
Other networks should be so lucky. But if Awake and Smash are good/successful on NBC, they just might find their way out of the woods as well.
Excellent 2nd episode. Better than the pilot.
I adore Once Upon a Time! I was skeptical at first, but it very quickly endeared itself to me. It’s very original and inspired, like a breath of fresh air amidst all the cookie-cutter police procedurals. (Grimm was a big disappointment–not only is it a bad police procedural, it didn’t do anything new with the fairy tale concept, it just copied what other shows like Supernatural and X-Files have already done much better, and sprinkled some fairy tale bad guys on top.)
Also, Jennifer Morrison is magnificent! I stopped watching House when they sidelined Cameron and Chase. I am so glad she has found a new great character in Emma, and a new hit show.
Actually, Grimm is more of a Buffy ripoff. Any way you slice it, though, the show stinks.
Okay now we wait for the onslaught of fairytale pilots and reality shows.
Vacuous idiots rule!
I am not surprised. Fantasy shows like this often have a dicey pilot episode. Sci-Fi fantasy necessarily have a detailed backstory to get through in order to get going. Now that they are established, they can tell their story.
yeah morrison is great and should be in more. i think she’s more appealoing than Goodwin. also disappointing – the female lead on Grimm Bitsie Tulloch also seems reduced to bit player. Was a little disappointing because she was funny in her few scenes. speaking of House she was great in the Christmas episode she did. They are both very pretty and relatable and hopefully both Morrison and Tulloch have more good stuff coming up. I have to say I loved both shows! Exciting to finally have good fantasy TV to watch
The special effects, which are top-notch, make ‘Once Upon a Time’ a very credible show. You can tell they didn’t cut costs and fairy tale stories definitely need great effects.
I hope it becomes a giant hit.
Pan Am may have leveled off (with a less than 2.0 rating), but last night’s show was unwatchable. I done with it.
Pan Am is one of the hose shows that you hope nobody asks you what happened, because you won’t remember. Fortunately, nobody ever does.
I thought the pilot for Once Upon a Time was tedious, but I loved the second episode and will continue to watch.
You are SO right about Pan Am!
As for OUAT, I thought the pilot was exceptional and episode 2 was not as good (though definitely not bad).
Allen Gregory was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen, and I’m a ‘Cop Rock’ survivor.
That may be the best review of Allen Gregory I’ve read. I’m biased though, I too am a Cop Rock survivor…..we should start a support group.
I almost made it to the first commercial break, but didn’t. What a pile of shit.
Who knew the TV world needed MORE gay?
I loved both episodes of Once Upon a Time. I wanted to love Allen Gregory, but I just didn’t. The few laughs didn’t warrant the whole half an hour.
Was is only me or did the character on Allen Gregory playing the gay dad embody Donald Deline to a T ????
I agree! As I saw the character I had to check and see whether he was involved someway with the show! Donald is a fantastic good natured guy guy and not at all tyrannical like Richard, but I’m sure he was partly a model for this character. The visual resemblance is uncanny!
I was shocked at the low quality of Allen Gregory. I get what they were going for, but everyone is just so unlikable. The few likable characters are so brutalized by the other leads that it is a huge turnoff. There is potential there. I mean, the premise is good. But the execution was horrible.
^ I thought the premise was awful. A clear ripoff of the kid characters on Family Guy and Cleveland Show (who are themselves rips of Jimmy Neutron and Dexter’s Lab) mixed with a little of the underrated Comedy Central show Kid Notorious.
And I’m far from PC, but I didn’t laugh once, especially at all the gay, oriental, and other such “jokes”
Again, it’s all abut being consistent with the show as Pan Am is starting to follow a Love Boat pattern here of flying to a destination, telling a story and then back to NYC. I noticed that with last night’s episode, but again, it needs to follow a set pattern if people are going to be tuning into this show. Two episodes left before a two week break in the schedule so hoping they get it right and more people watch this.
Once Upon a Time it’s amazing.
ABC must be thrilled. They have the new breakout hit drama this season. Well actually in 2 seasons because no new drama was able last season to get those numbers.
The story is very interesting, loving it.
Allen Gregory was not funny
I love that little kid. I think he is adorable and a very competent actor.
He got me when he said he knew why she gave him up, to give him his best chance.
JJ, I would imagine you are about as engaging as the gum on the bottom of my shoe.
I really like this show so far. I hope it keeps getting better.
I really loved the once upon a time. It’s a really good show. I love fairy tales. And the story line was really good. ABC keep this show plase like you said the writer creates the lost show and it was a big hit. Now I really loved this show so please keep this show. And The cast was awesome. So plz keep this show on
Once Upon a Time is GREAT. Ginnifer Goodwin is a good actress along with Jennifer, and Lana. It’s good to see this many woman is primary roles. I also like some of the supporting roles, and to cast Kristin Bauer (van Straten) was a work of genius.
I really enjoy the show; its great to see a family values type of show, keep in coming.