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NBC can exhale — its first night of all-new fall programming did OK. At 8 PM, the second episode of The Voice posted a 3.9/12 in adults 18-49. That was down a modest 7% from the Monday season premiere, which aired from 8-10 PM, while last night’s episode ran in the 8 PM hour where HUT levels are lower. (Though the show faced lesser competition last night.) There is no suitable prior-season comparison as this is the first time The Voice has expanded into multiple nights a week during the higher-rated blind auditions stage. The singing competition delivered NBC’s best non-sports rating in the time period since January 5, 2011.
At 9 PM, the time-period premiere of the new Matthew Perry comedy Go On (3.4/9, 9.6 million) marked NBC’s highest-rated comedy premiere since Outsourced in 18-49 and My Name Is Earl in total viewers. It was down 39% from the Go On preview during the Olympics as well as down 8% from the debut of Perry’s most recent series, the short-lived ABC comedy Mr. Sunshine, and Up All Night‘s preview behind America’s Got Talent last year.
At 9:30 PM, the time-slot debut of fellow new comedy The New Normal (2.5/7) was even with the show’s preview after The Voice on Monday. It retained an 74% of its Go On lead-in. NBC easily won the night in 18-49 but its demo ratings declined steadily from 9-11 PM, hitting a low note with the season premiere of Parenthood (1.9/5) at 10 PM. The heavily DVR-ed dramedy, featuring new recurring guest star Ray Romano, was down 14% from last season’s debut, which followed America’s Got Talent, for its lowest-rated opener. The premiere tied Parenthood‘s most recent season finale.
Elsewhere, Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance (1.5/4) was flat with last week. ABC and CBS aired reruns.
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Good for GO ON and THE NEW NORMAL. TNN is easily one of the best new shows this year. And haters begin:
I don’t hate. I just wait. It will go away, because it is preachy and awful and not funny, soon enough.
I’m gay and can’t believe how bad The New Normal is. The character are pure stereotypes. It is laugh free. And Ellen Barkin is embarrassing herself. I find the whole thing sad.
WAY too much talk about the fact that the show has gay characters. It doesn’t matter. All that matters is jokes and this show just isn’t funny enough. Gay characters aren’t new in comedies. The funny ones become hits.
For what it’s worth, I didn’t realize last night’s episode was new until a few minutes before it aired. I thought it was just a repeat of the pilot, which I viewed after the olympics. Perhaps some advertising on NBC’s part that it was the 2nd episode of the series would have helped?
PARENTHOOD might have benefitted from some push during the Olympics. That this show has not been a big hit is a shame as it is very good. I hope NBC is learning again how to market and promote and nurture hits. The Peacock once knew such things. This Tuesday 9-11 block has a nice flow and I like it. Prefer it to the predictable NCIS franchises and the ABC snark of ENDINGS and APT 23 and the dying PRIVATE PRACTICE.
Congratulations, NBC! Your “comedy” programs did moderately okay with absolutely no original competition!
“Go On (3.4/9, 9.6 million) marked NBC’s highest-rated comedy premiere since Outsourced.” Ha! HAHAHAHAHA… kudos!
Why does Matthew Perry do these downbeat premises? First “Mr. Sunshine,” now this. He’s a nice guy it seems, and I wish him well, but brighten it up.
The high water mark of NBC – our shows do alright. What a joke!
Ha! Years ago, I remember thinking really positively about Heroes: “wow, Heroes really didn’t suck that much this week!” the same soft prejudice of low expectations must apply to anything compared to Outsourced…
It’s too bad that parenthood isn’t pushed hard. The series has gotten better in terms of writing over the seasons and is something a little different than the usual faire on network tv. With the way ratings have been going, I don’t think it’ll last another season, but one can hope!
Matthew Perry in “Go On” is just so pushed. He and the rest of the cast seem to be trying way too hard to be funny. All the characters are just recycled characters we’ve seen in the past…nothing new.
I found Perry annoying!!!!!!
Most new shows take a few episodes to find their legs. Bebe Wood WAS Little Edie – fantastic!
Getting comparable numbers to one of the funniest, most successful shows in TV history, “Outsourced”, should be a positive omen. I wouldn’t be surprised of TNN and “Go On” were by the end of their runs more successful than “Seinfeld” and Perry’s first show, “Friends”
would never watch anything with Ellen Barkin, not now not ever. It is about time “hollywood” gets the fact that there is a lot of country between NY and LA…..over it. Maybe they should think about the consequences of the garbage they put out there and the arrogance of their elite selves. Dont wish a drownding but do wish failure.