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UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers 
In its second week against new competitor The Voice, ABC’s reality veteran Dancing With The Stars (3.1/8, 17.6 million) was down 11% from its season premiere last Monday, which was the lowest-rated ever in the franchise’s history. Dancing still was the most-watched program of the night by a mile. At 10 PM, Castle (2.4/6) was even with last week’s fast national. (Compared with the final it was up 4%, but those comparisons are irrelevant since Castle‘s fast nationals are always inflated by a Dancing overrun and are adjusted down in the finals.) NBC’s The Voice (4.4/12, 11.8 million) was down a tenth from last week’s fast national to a season low, and Smash (2.2/6) was flat.
Fox aired a two-hour season finale of Alcatraz (1.5/4), which didn’t make a case for renewal — down a tenth from last week’s hourlong episode to a series low. With CBS in repeats, NBC and ABC split the honors for the night, with NBC (3.7/10, 10 million) taking the demo crown and ABC (2.9/8, 15.8 million) No. 1 in total viewers. The CW aired Confessions Of A Shopaholic.
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Why did they replace the creator of Alcatraz again?
They didn’t replace the creator of Alcatraz, they replaced the oringial show runner who had some involvement in the show’s creation. The original creators who came up with the idea, Lilien and Wynbrandt, were involved through all of the first season. Hopefuly Fox brings it back, Alcatraz wasn’t perfect but what first year show ever is. It kept me watching from week to week, I can’t say that about any other freshman show this season.
I’m guessing Alcatraz will soon be closed again.
I don’t at all dislike Abrams or his general ouvre……….but this one never really came together.
The DWTS judges are really whooping it up these days. Why does every show have to be a competition, now? I’d love to see these people perform without it all being a competition. Get rid of the judges.
They probably replaced him because he’s creative and has new ideas and provided a challenge to the old ways of the networks and same derivative mindset of those that will do anything to stay in the system.
Why don’t you mention how the voice has dropped from just this season from a 7 to a 4.4? I really wish that NBC would get off mondays and go to tuesdays where there is no reality competition and actually have a hit show and not play second fiddle with viewers and have dropping demos when it can literally have high viewers and a higher demo on Tuesdays. It’s crazy to have two powerhouses go against one another, they just hurt both shows.
The battle rounds, which ended last night, are the worst part of the show so it’s not surprising that ratings have slipped the past few weeks, just like Idol went down during the Hollywood week portion. Viewers should be back next week with the first live episode. It still does well in the demo compared to the older-skewing DWTS or even Idol.
i’m sorry more people did not get into Alcatraz, a show i found fascinating, …i hope FOX brings it back!
Fringe has a better shot at renewal than Alca–
I guess the age old mystery of why all those deadbeat cons were time traveling will never be answered. Let’s all take a moment of silence to remember them now.
This show should have never had the case of the week vibe… was just ridiculous. Sure it gave the suits what they wanted but it killed the show creatively.
Another case of FOX making a bad decision. They chose this over the vastly superior and infintely more interesting “Locke and Key”…guess they’re wishing they had done it the other way around now…
Actually they didn’t like it much at all… and stick by their decision.
Remember nobody else wanted it either when it was shopped.
I’m still hoping Locke and Key makes its way to cable. It’s too good to be on broadcast television.
Can they resurrect Locke & Key now, please? It almost certainly would be better than the Alcatraz borefest.
Cable already took a look at it, and didn’t want it. It’s too bad too… but I guess SyFy is up to their eyeballs in WWE and Katy Perry Pro Active commercials, there’s really no space for an actual show on the network anymore.
Maybe Netflix can revive it since they passed (thankfully!) on Terra Nova?
My family loves Alcatraz – I hope they keep it on the air. It is the only show this year I never miss.
Last night’s The Voice, made it tough, and potentially difficult to want to continue the journey of watching these talented hopefuls achieve their dreams. In my humble opinion, the judges made some vital errors and sent some extremely gifted and marketable singers home while keeping those (while talented), unmarketable and limited genre singers on their teams, thereby created what many of my industry professional contemporaries perceive to be mediocre teams and relatively uninteresting to watch. If it wasn’t for a client’s sister on one of the teams, I would be not be following this year. What do you all think? I would love to know your opinions. Again, this is just one person’s opinion.
ALCATRAZ is one themost original interesting series as well as the best actors in the business,
Locke and key was an ATROCIOUS pilot. One of the worst I’ve ever seen. Which is why it didn’t get picked up. Alcatraz wasnt always perfect but it was good fun and the last three or four eps really started to find its stride. Oh well…
No surprise DWTS is done – this season has the blandest celebrities (if you can call them that considering most people had never heard of half of them). There’s no Bristol Palin or Kate Gossellin or Chastity Bono for people to love or hate. It’s all one big meh. I mean, Jack Wagner? Melissa Gilbert? Really? LOL!
I agree. They got the most bland group of D-list celebs making it one of the most boring seasons of DWTS.
On the contrary, they have one of the best, most watchable group of celebs this season that they’ve had for a long time.
Didn’t Locke and Key get shopped everywhere and everyone turned it down?
Alcatraz needs a couple of cast changes and it should get back on track. The stories are interesting and compelling enough to get a renewal. Besides, I love the live shoots around the Bay Area, especially when my house was captured in one.
Locke an Key will NEVER be a series. It’s DEAD. Move on people. Focus on world hunger. Or how to stop Iraq from getting nukes.
I watched two eps of Alcatraz, to get a feeling for it. My reaction was that the unknown female lead couldn’t carry the show; just sticking Jorge Garcia into a show doesn’t make it Lost; I didn’t care why the convicts were time-traveling; and that this was nothing more than Chase with a boring time-travel mystery jammed into the middle of it.
My opinion is that adult action shows with female leads don’t make it, generally speaking. I’m expecting Missing to fail for that same reason. I know there must be exceptions, but all I could think of was Alias, and it wasn’t a ratings success.
Alcatraz just took too long getting around to answering the Why question. They just kept serving up the same storyline every week: A criminal from 1963 Alcatraz is on the loose, doing whatever his specialty is, they track him down, someone might get hurt, they capture (sometimes kill) him, and we’ll see you again next week. Of course, House managed to stay on the air for 8 years repeating the same pattern over and over. Only difference is, no one really cares about the characters on Alcatraz (i.e., no chemistry).
I enjoy Alcatraz.I have not missed an episode. I hope that FOX gives this show a chance.
The case of the week vibe was what made me get bored of it instantly. I watched 3 episodes, only felt they were teasing at a greater story to keep me hanging on, but the case of the week vibe was over-powering. I’m only interested if it’s a serial.
Alcatraz is liked by all my friends. How can it not be brought back