There was a lot of reality and a lot of Ramsey on television Monday night. ABC’s The Glass House (0.9/3) wrapped up its first season with Toledo police officer Kevin Braun the $250,000 winner. Up 29% from last week, the once legally embattled show, which debuted on June 18, has generally floundered in the ratings since the very beginning. Before The Glass House, ABC ran a two-hour Bachelor Pad (1.5/4) at 8 PM. Bachelor Pad also was up from last week, 25% in its case from last week’s series low. With local market pre-emptions of NFL Preseason Football, those ABC numbers could be inflated in fast nationals. Over on Fox it was a double serving of Gordon Ramsey with Hotel Hell (2.0/6) and Hell’s Kitchen (2.5/7). Hell was up a slight 5% from its Monday debut last week, but Kitchen was down 7% from last week’s high-rated episode. Still, despite its slump, Hell’s Kitchen was the highest-rated show in the Adult 18-49 demo and the biggest draw of the night with 6.17 million in total viewers. Overall Fox won the night among Adults 18-49 and in terms of total viewers. NBC had a repeat of America’s Got Talent (1.1/3) at 8 PM, followed by the second week of Stars Earn Stripes (1.1/3). The celebrity competition series fell 35% from its debut last week. Things picked up a bit for NBC with the new episode from the second season of Grimm (1.6/5). However, Grimm was still down 20% from the second highest rating ever the show had in its season premiere. CBS had all repeats on Monday night with How I Met Your Mother (1.2/4), 2 Broke Girls at 8:30 PM (1.4/4) and 9 PM (1.6/4), followed by Mike & Molly (1.5/4) and Hawaii Five-O (1.0/3)
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And here I thought that Stars Earn Stripes was going to be Dean Cain’s big comeback vehicle. Tremendous shame, he’s such a great actor . . . probably one of the best of our generation. Wait. What? This isn’t a scripted show? It’s a reality show? Dean Cain is on a reality show? No frickin’ way. Dean Cain would never do a reality show. It’s beneath him.
Though I think the first 2 episodes of Grimm were amazingly great, it certainly is not the same family viewing show from last year. It is now VERY dark and is deserving of a 10:00pm time slot. I love it, but folks that think it is still a companion piece to ‘Once Upon A Time’ on ABC, will most likely be shocked.
Hopefully, this turn in scheme won’t get the show cancelled! If the ratings drop, I hope it ends up on the SYFY channel. It may not be BattleStar Galactica…but it IS damn good.
The ratings drop will only suffice once Stars Earn Stripes is cancelled.
Stars Earn Stripes will be done after next week as NBC can’t afford any more of a decline to that show and besides, the show is just stupid but what do you expect from NBC nowadays? Thank goodness Glass House is finished and will be over with after one season as that show has been nothing short of a trainwreck and too much Ramsey on FOX, as they need to tone him down too.