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CBS’ idea of possibly expanding its Thursday comedy block to two hours passed the litmus test last night as a repeat Big Bang Theory (3.0/8) topped all original competition at 9 PM and a 2 Broke Girls rerun (2.1/6) finished tied for second at 9:30 PM. Last night also delivered good news for CBS’ perennial bubble comedy/utility player Rules Of Engagement (2.7/8), which proved it can stand on its own by matching its demo result from last week despite its lead-in shrinking dramatically from a 4.2/14 18-49 fast national for an original Big Bang last Thursday to a 2.8/9 for a repeat last night. At 10 PM, Person Of Interest (1.8/5) also did decent business for a repeat, doubling the original delivery of NBC’s doomed new drama Awake (0.9/2).
With Big Bang a repeat and some drama surrounding the use of the judges “save”, Fox’s American Idol (4.2/12) was up 8% from last week’s fast national. Touch (2.3/6) may have bottomed out, even with last Thursday after a couple weeks of declines. Fox (3.2/9, 11.8 million total viewers) won the night in 18-49 and total viewers.
ABC’s Missing (1.4/4) was flat with last week’s fast national, down a tenth from the final. Grey’s Anatomy (2.9/8) was up a tenth. In its second week, Scandal (2.1/6) was even with the fast national for its premiere, up a tenth from the final. NBC’s lineup was mostly higher from last week’s string of series lows. Community (1.4/5) was up a tenth (8%), 30 Rock (1.4/4) was up two tenths (17%). Anchor The Office (2.1/6) came back from a long hiatus down 13% from its most recent original four weeks ago. The Office‘s return came just in time for the season finale of Up All Night (1.5/4), helping the freshman comedy to a 25% boost from last week when it followed an Office repeat. NBC (1.3/4) once again finished the night behind Univision (1.5/4) in 18-49. The CW aired repeats.
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I guess that means that Awake will be put to sleep, damn shame. I was really starting to enjoy it.
Awake tries to hard to be all things to all people: a procedural, a scifi mind twister, s domestic drama, and a conspiracy thriller.
They should have picked one of these and done it well.
Person of Interest is getting better each week and that is why ratings are getting stronger .I think this is the best CBS drama in at least a couple of years.
Person of Interest is one of the best shows currently on TV. Too bad it’s making the same mistakes of Lost in season 2, and losing audience thru too many repeats.
I’ve got to agree. CBS is killing POI by not having enough connected ‘new’ episodes and scheduling illogical repeats.
Totally agree. This second hiatus coming so soon after the last one is not doing them any favours and losing momentum at this point in the season is unwise. Whoever suggested that bumping their best show for a comedy block would be a good idea needs to start looking for a new job.
SCANDAL is insanely addictive, and I’m glad the ratings are holding.
I totally agree…I was told by people who have seen several episodes that after the 3rd, you’ll be hooked. But I’m hooked already!
Love SCANDAL! Kerry Washington is BAD A$$!
True BUT let’s be real, show is NOT Good or original. I’m sorry to set the bar that high since little else on network tv is original but one can hope.
Am dissapointed in how formulaic and cliched both Missing and Scandal are.
As far as quality and likability of the singers, Idol is having one of it’s best seasons ever.
After a captivating and rousing pilot episode, Touch has since gone completley off the rails.
Rules of Engagement has once again proven it’s got its own solid audience. It should be party of the new two-hour block this fall.
Thanx for the numbers Nellie. You gotta love Nbc (or maybe not!). I mean,personally I don’t really see any encouraging news for them. Their line-up went up a little bit,&, yet they STILL finish behind a spanish telenovela network in 18-49. Look what’s happened to Awake. I wanted to watch it since its’debut,but, I hedged my bets thinking exactly what’s happening would take place. Because of Nbc’s current rep among fans, any new upcoming pilots with any promise at all could be doomed by the simple misfortune of airing on Nbc. As a long-time tv fan, I still remember the days when Nbc ruled with the likes of Cheers,Cosby, and others. In my eyes,this guy gets one more season to start turning this network around,but,there have to be real tangible results-not just a success here & there i.e. Grimm,Smash. Also,if Awake is canceled before ending its’ short run-that will be 3 failures at Ten pm Thursday nights(Prime Suspect,The Firm,Awake) how depressing & pathetic would that be?
Watched the NBC “comedy” lineup last night for the first time in years. The flu will do that to a person. I counted 3 laughs in 120 minutes — one in Community, two in The Office (“vegetable cake” was funny). When did 30 Rock devolve into a sloppily written cartoon with moronic caricatures instead of characters? And is Up All Night always that bad? Lazy lazy lazy writing. Put on some multi-cams so it will at least sound funny.
All these shows are …..t e r r i b l e …..
Try the Disney channel… Shake it up …show on the Disney channel is so funny great clothes artistic great acting music. Yep broadcast is
d e a d …..
Scandal is awful. The second big flop for Shonda Rhimes after Off The Map last year. ABC should cancel Scandal and let her spend her efforts trying to save the mother ship — Grey’s Anatomy which is now under a 3.0 for two weeks running.
I think CBS’ test was lukewarm, at best. POI’s repeat DIPPED from it’s usual, as far as I recall. (Comparing it to NBC is illogical.) TBBT rerun did well, but it would do well anywhere in the schedule. You can’t pin a night on a comedy that has been proven unable to share it’s numbers. I think they should launch a new comedy out of TBBT next year and keep POI where it is.
I think CBS may be considering a second night of comedy because there may be a log-jam coming soon on CBS Monday nights. They need to open up a slot at 8:30 between HIMYM and 2.5 Men/Mike-Molly. 2 Broke Girls will be moved somewhere – probably Thursday (8pm?). Rules of Engagement will get some number of episode-order also for Thursday/8:30? – CBS won’t thrown Rules into Saturday night again like last fall – no show deserves that fate. Hence, CBS needs to make some room on Thursday night, which means POI moving to 10pm, and probably Mentalist over to Friday at 9pm, or maybe to Tues 10pm, forcing Unforgettable to either Friday 9pm, or canceled. Ouch. CBS will want to bring along at least two new comedies – one at 8:30/Monday, and then another at probably 9:30/Thurs after TBBT. The timing may be good – Office/NBC is near the end of its run at 9pm, and Greys on ABC is nearing the end of its run as well. This is the time for CBS to make their move on Thursday at 9pm if they are ever going to. TBBT is strong and getting stronger (syndication may be helping as well).
Final note – I agree with Anthony’s prior notation on 30 Rock. I’m just shocked at what happened to that show. Maybe Tina has not had the time (w/maternity leave and all) to work on the writing/scripts for this season. Something is wrong. 30 Rock was maybe the best comedy around two years ago – last season was pretty good as well – Avery/Jack. This season – wow, what happened? Did anyone see this past Thursday’s episode? I watched in shock – way, way, way too much Kenneth. I think Alec B is getting ready to jump ship. Tina is saying ‘the end of the series is approaching’ – the end may be sooner than she realizes if the writing does not improve soon. That show is just not funny any more, and in some instances, is bordering on bad taste. If I were an exec at NBC, and I saw that 30 Rock episode last Thursday night, I would not be happy but extremely disappointed. There’s a lot of talent on 30 Rock – I just don’t see the results on screen. I pray for NBC. What else can you do?
Recently I read somewhere a fan chastise another fan because he classified an Nbc program which had between 3 and 4 million viewers as being a hit. Later on,the fan who made the earlier statement, clarified it by adding that with Nbc current standards-it was a hit. What I’m trying to say is-what kind of shape is Nbc really in when fans of their shows now rationalize ratings numbers that would get shows cancelled on other networks. Or,in other words Is Nbc grading its’ programs on a curve these days?
SCANDAL is painful to watch. Maybe a charismatic powerhouse of an actress could make this cartoon-protag a bit more watchable, Washington sure can’t. The pilot just plain sucked beyond words on so many levels, OMG. Episode 2 wasn’t much better. I kept on thinking of different lead actresses and if scenes could work with them, how the energy would change. It’s just ridiculous…
Eli Gold so deserves a GOOD WIFE spin-off, he’d have this wannabe for breakfast.
I don’t get it. Is it that people really dislike the shows on NBC or is it all this constant bashing of NBC as a company (which does suck, I admit) that puts people off of their programming. Yes, most of their programming is mediocre at best but they have some good shows, I count Community, Smash and Awake among those. I honestly don’t understand 0.9 in ratings when something as awkwardly terrible as The Big Bang Theory can get solid ratings with reruns. I weep for network TV.