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It is not a pretty picture looking at the fast national ratings this morning, with most of them painted in red — indicating week-to-week declines. 
The only show in the plus column was NBC’s The Voice (4.5/11), up 6% from its fast national last Monday. The Voice is about to face its biggest test next as its traditionally highly rated blind audition rounds are now over. Its lead-out last night, Revolution (3.2/8), was once again the dominant player at 10 PM but shed another 9% from last week’s fast national as it is yet to level off. However, the futuristic drama quickly established itself as a top DVR gainer, adding a 1.75 18-49 rating in Live+3 last week.
Related: PREMIERE WEEK: DVR’s Power Grows, NBC Tops, ‘Revolution’ Leads Drama-Heavy Fall
It’s time to sound the alarm for Fox’s freshman drama The Mob Doctor, which dropped to a 1.0/2 in its third airing. It matched the delivery of Fox’s fall 2010 drama Lone Star in its second and final outing before the network pulled it from the schedule. At 8 PM, Bones (2.1/6) was down 9% from last week.
ABC’s Dancing With The Stars‘ downspiral continued with a 2.0/5, down 20% from last week’s meek season premiere for the franchise’s lowest-rated regular telecast ever. At 10 PM, Castle (1.9/5) was down 24% from its fast national last week as the crime drama regularly is adjusted down in the finals. ABC (2.0/5 in 18-49, 11.6 million total viewers) still edged NBC for the No. 1 Monday spot in total viewers. NBC (4.0/10, 11 million) won in adults 18-49 by a wide margin.
In the 10 PM hour, Castle matched the performance of CBS’ Hawaii Five-0, which was even with the fast national for its underwhelming season premiere last Monday. CBS’ comedies were all down, with rookie Partners (2.1/5) falling the most, down 13% from its lackluster series premiere last week; a call on substitute Rules Of Engagement may not be far down the line. How I Met Your Mother was down 6% from its fast national last week, 2 Broke Girls (3.4/8) was down 8% and Mike & Molly was down 6%.
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Partners will be moving to Saturday in a week or so to burn off remaining episodes. Does anyone remember the show Dweebs? David Krumholtz does better in dramas, I guess. Weird, he was great in Addams Family Values.
Krumholtz is very likeable in any genre and Sophia Bush is super adorable and fashionable. Brandon Routh is awkwardly terrible, but much better in comedies than drama, since we are laughing at his bad performances in drama, but with his stilted performances in comedy. His stiff mannerisms get to be passed off as comedic choice. They will all probably land another show. Michael Urie is the one in trouble. Talented and likable, but his Just Jack on speed impression really hurt him.
Bummer about The Mob Doctor. It’s actually quite good and getting better. Maybe a move to another time slot to see if it can find more viewers?
moving this dud would just damage another timeslot. It’s fork time.
ElsieM: I watched most of Mob Doctor Monday and it wasn’t too bad. I watched the Pilot and that was just dreadful. I really do not seeing Mob Doctor recovering from the Pilot, it was that bad.
How I Met Your Worst Episode Ever!
Revolution is getting better each week, so well deserved numbers. Good job NBC !
The numbers for Hawaii 50 are depressing for a 10 PM CBS drama. I don’t think any CBS drama got those numbers before in a week night. Cop procedurals is what CBS does best, but they messed up with this remake. It’s plain bad and painful to watch. A nonsense plot and the weakest cast I have ever watched, .specially the lead actor, very weak acting,. I am surprised it didn’t crash before, probably because for the first two seasons it had the easiest 10 pm spot, only abc Castle as competition and the strongest lead in of any 10 pm show.
I think it’s time for abc to say Good Bye to Dancing with the stars,
Show is poorly acted and very noisy….Said it three years ago that Jack Lord IS McGarrett and the show had a uniqueness it.
PARTNERS actually surprised me last night. (In a good way.) I wasn’t sure it was going to work well after seeing the Pilot, but it worked last night. Hopefully it continues to improve.
Mob Doctor was DOA the moment it was announced. The collective groan could be heard all over town.
Ever hear of NFL Football? ESPN obviously took a bite out of the networks fare. Time to stop just looking at these “early numbers” and come to grips with the cable/satellite, syndie, VOD and DVR, plus phone/tablet/digital. NYT, LAT etc are catching on. But not Deadline.
PARTNERS is dragging the whole CBS lineup down.
MOB DOCTOR is also gone.
Last resort is Soooo much better than revolution. I wish it wasn’t ins crowded night and the early time slot but moving it would make it worse.
ESPN’s NFL game topped the night with 16 million viewers.
That’s about one-third more viewers than any other cable or broadcast program.
I am a 32 year old male and have watched ever single new pilot this year except “The Mindy Project”. I am pretty dissapointed that not one new show is all that interesting or creative. Last year we had “Person of Interest” and “Revenge” that really stood out. But this year maybe “Revolution” and “Vegas” can hold on, but that’s about it. We live in an age now were entertainment options are everywhere. These networks should break out of the mold. Stop hiring 50 and 60 year old dinasours to run the programming departments. Get young fresh ideas in there. People who won’t be afraid to change up the formula and try something new.
Old execs aren’t the problem. Limiting themselves to working only with the same small group of failures is the problem. How many failed shows does Berlanti have? How many will fail this year? And next year we will see a whole raft of new failed shows from him. That is the problem.
Every single one of the actors on “Partners” annoys the hell out of me. The show is a total disaster.
Say goodbye to Mob Doctor and Partners as they’re headed for Saturday doomesdom as those numbers are unacceptable and time to pull the plug on these shows…the first of many that will be biting the dust between now and the holidays. Animal Practice…you’re next.
Bottom line- @ ABC… DWTS never recovered fully from the Chaz Bono, Carson Kressley, Hope Solo (and other names no one remembers) season of viewer discontent. ABC could write a series of novels on how to kill blockbuster hit shows. And this season there’s not one big personality in the bunch. Someone like a Kyle Massey or a Mel B. would have brought so much more life to the program. The women they chose this season are like dead weight that has to be dragged from one spot to the other. And there’s such a disparity in the talent level of dance between the men and women, save for Sabrina. Biased, poor selction of the all-stars season killed the golden goose yet again for ABC. Karma is a witch.
Meanwhile at NBC, it’s ass kicking time. Great numbers for THE VOICE and REVOLUTION, although the latter has slipped for the third week in a row. CBS is a mess. No one show draws 10 million viewers anymore. CBS’ Monday shows use to draw 10 million viewers IN REPEATS! And only two shows got over a 3.0 demo. SAD. And lastly over at FOX, BONES still draws more viewers (7 million) than any other scripted show on the network, although that demo is slipping dangerously close to the floor, a 2.0.
Partners is the best new comedy! Too bad it had the lowest rated lead-in. Last years shows had over 20 million as a lead-in. This year it was 8 million…
Are you joking? People watched the show before it and watched the show after it, but during Partners, people completely tuned out. Partners is killing CBS’s entire lineup.
Nobody commented on The Neighbors…. what a DUD! Probably the first new show to be canceled, followed by Mob Doctors and Partners. Bad writing is the death of any new show, worse than bad acting (e.g. Routh is NOT Super, man). I think DWTS blew it with their all-star lineup (hello? Palin?!?).
Thank you! The writing is there, the casting is all wrong!