
Hawaii and Los Angeles proved a potent combination as the Hawaii Five-0 crossover episode of NCIS: LA (3.0/8) shot up 25% from the last original three weeks ago. NCIS: LA was the only series in positive territory last night as the rest of the shows were flat or down. NCIS: LA matched its lead-in, NCIS (3.0/8), which was even with the fast national for its last original two weeks ago, down a tenth from the final. Unforgettable (1.8/5) was flat with its last original three weeks ago, tying its series low. CBS won the night in total viewers and adults 18-49.
NBC’s The Biggest Loser had a ho-hum season closer. The hourlong finale (2.1/7) was down a tenth from last week and down 30% from last spring’s two-hour finale to rank as the veteran franchise’s lowest-rated season finale ever. The Voice‘s results show (3.1/8) also was down a tenth from last week to a series low. Fashion Star (1.5/4) didn’t get a boost from the baby news for star Jessica Simpson yesterday, down a tenth from its fast national last week and flat with the national, but the fashion reality series may be adjusted down in the finals again.
Fox’s Glee (2.4/8) was down 11% from its Whitney Houston-themed episode last week. New Girl (2.1/6) was down 19%. ABC’s comedies Last Man Standing (1.4/5) and Cougar Town (1.3/4) were both down 13% from their last originals to series lows. The Dancing With The Stars results (2.3/6) was down a tenth from last week to tie series low. Private Practice (2.1/6) was also down a tenth but is still potent, winning the 10 PM hour in adults 18-49. And when you start off with a 0.3 demo rating, it’s hard to go lower: In its second original airing. the CW’s Canadian import The LA Complex (0.3/1) matched the rating for its series premiere and encore airing last week. 90210 (0.6/2) also was steady.
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Glee needs to seriously rethink its writing. Last week’s Whitney tribute was clunky, whth characters serving plot and weak storylines – with an emphasis on already over-exposed characters. So, people didn’t come back this week. I suspect the incredibly cringe-worthy PSA on domestic violence this week for Choke snuffed out the lead-in for New Girl. The only successful episode of this spring run was Glee-ver which at least continued plotlines of established characters as well as being well performed by a couple of its stars. That boost to ratings for the following week was again reversed. Some brave choices need to be taken. I wonder if Fox regrets not going ahead with a spin-off which would at least had the bonus that the stars Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Chris Colfer could be perhaps saved from the mess of the main show.
What exactly is “Glee” going to do with all those graduates? At least on “Gossip Girl,” everyone stayed in NYC for college – not that anyone actually bothers to go.
Looks like a sick sad night all around the big four networks. FOX’s Glee (2.4) and New Girl (2.1) have just completely imploded. New Girl was a steady 4.5 4.8 demo performer in the fall. Never seen an audience abandon a new show so quickly. In the meantime over at NBC 2nd season semi-hit, The Voice, is quickly losing its muscle as well. Having already lost Mondays, it’s about to choke and cough up Tuesdays as well. Viewer numbers have never been consistently strong for The Voice anyway and they won’t grow next season either, especially if NBC leaves it on Mondays and Tuesdays. CBS, still fine even with fading numbers for the NCIS machines. Although, if they start to fall into the low 2′s , Unforgettable will become even more forgotten than it already is- 1.8, YiKeS! ABC, should have moved LMS to Wednesdays, shoved Cougartown to summer, and brought back the DWTS encore show three weeks ago. They are so clueless over at that network. It is just mindboggling that anything positive ever gets accomplished over there. Well actually, basically nothing positive did get accomplished over there since losing McPherson. Their #1 comedy, highest rated and viewed drama last week, Grey’s Anatomy, and last week’s #1 watched show, Dancing With The Stars, all are leftovers from McPherson.
The CW is in big trouble right now and unless they get an infuse of newer and more reliable scripted programming onto their dockets for the fall season, this network will be finished one year from now. Those numbers are unacceptable and that show needs to be pulled from the schedule immediately and just trashed. NBC is a lost cause right now but the CW needs to get their act together.