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After giving comedies a warm welcome back to Friday last week, viewers turned a cold shoulder last night. In their second week, Last Man Standing (1.6/5) was down 16% from last Friday’s fast national, while Malibu Country (1.6/5) tumbled 27% from its premiere. The comedies surrendered the top spot in the 8 PM hour among adults 18-49 to CBS’ Undercover Boss (2.0/7) which, after a mediocre season start last week, jumped 33% to finish a close second for the night in the demo behind former time slot rival Shark Tank (2.1/6). With its comedy lead-in dropping big, Shark Tank slipped 9% from last week’s series highs but still led ABC to a nightly win in 18-49. The network topped the 9 PM and the 10 PM hours in the demo with Shark Tank and 20/20 (1.6/5, up a tenth from last week)
Meanwhile, CSI: NY (1.4/4) didn’t take advantage of its much improved Undercover Boss lead-in, down a tenth from last week. Blue Bloods (1.5/5) was up two tenths with the episode marking the exit of Jennifer Esposito’s character (for now). CBS won the night in total viewers.
Grimm (1.7/5) was down a tenth from last week with virtually no lead-in (comedy repeats that tied the CW’s America’s Next Top Model in the 8 PM hour). It still ranked as the highest-rated scripted show on the night. Dateline (1.3/4) was flat.
Top Model (0.6/2) was up 50% from last week, while Nikita (0.3/1) was flat. In 18-34, Top Model (0.7/4) logged its best rating in nearly a year, since Dec. 7, 2011.
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SHARK TANK should be a 2-hour 8pm to 10pm show on Fridays. The show’s so entertaining that one hour feels more like ten minutes!
I couldn’t drop Last Man Standing fast enough last week. I loved his previous series and I really enjoyed the “old school” approach of Last Man Standing in its first season, a show I looked forward to every week. but I turned it off after six or seven minutes with the first episode of this season. Heavy, heavy politics right at the end of the campaign season when people are exhausted from it and fast forwarding through commercials like crazy? Replacing multiple characters and advancing the kid forward? It wasn’t the show I saw before. And because of the politics, it was all just sniping, no matter whose side you were on. Just awful and kept me from coming back, period.
Couldn’t agree more. The ‘new’ oldest daughter is annoying and the involvement of her baby daddy is offensive given that she lives with her parents… Baby daddy has a lot to say for someone who isn’t putting a roof over his kid’s head. Season one was AWESOME… Season two is over for me.
Actually I thought MALIBU COUNTRY was a really good show. I missed the premiere/pilot episode, but this was actually a comedy I didn’t have to “TRY” to like, because it was already funny.
I really take my hat off to Reba/producers and cast. This was a great show with a great cast of talented people. PLEASE let this one stay!! I really see a lot of growth-potential here as the characters get to develop over time.
“A great show with a great cast of talented people,” huh? You, my friend, are an idiot.
What happened to if it ain’t broke, um, don’t fix it???
I love Shark Tark, so don’t know why they moved it around, wasn’t it already winning it’s time slot at 8pm?? Um, Hello.
Last Man Standing needs some work.
Malibu Country ought to be the lead in after moving Shark Tank back to 8pm. Personally, it’s a better show, better characters.
It’s not just the heavy handed politics that has wrecked “Last Man Standing”, it also appears that Tim Allen didn’t like that Nancy Travis & the girls got all the good lines, so he bigfooted them into almost nothing parts.
The same for Elizondo.
What’s really bizarre is the way Allen is now a right-wing crank, instead of the conservative he was last season.
It’s seems that Allen totally misread the country’s mood & went with his feelings instead of scientific polling.
Add me to the list who don’t like the new oldest daughter, she doesn’t fit & isn’t funny like the original.
I’m done with this show!
Betting “Burn Notice” two hour double episode season opener (8-10 p.m., USA) was a winner and had an impact on network viewing. Gotta get this ratings system business straightened out. Nielsen simply doesn’t tell the story with its antiquated perspective. But as long as media keep using it we will continue to get inaccurate reporting. Advertisers (the reason for the ratings system in the first place) know this, of course, and look elsewhere to make their decisions and will do so increasingly over time.
Yes. Burn Notice was and is good. As for Malibu Country, all it is, is Reba in different settings being Reba. Time to leave acting and replace her with someone more interesting and less predictable. Try singing, it’s what you’re good at Reba and let the Network hire an ‘actor’; she/he could use some work since gigs are fewer than before.
The only thing I never miss on Friday night is CSI:N.Y. LOVE THAT SHOW!!
Grimm is doing great this season. good for them. highest rated scripted show with NO lead in. soooo NBC? when are you gonna give Grimm a proper lead in? seems logical
My great-grandparents love “Burn Notice”!
Love Malibu Country! It’s a good relaxing comedy!
No surprise at these numbers for the ABC comedies as last week was a curiosity item [especially] for Reba’s new show but the people spoke in droves this week. It’s just not that witty of a show like her last one was on the WB/CW. It seems so forced, the laughs, that is.
Tim’s show has totally changed from last season. Not surprised viewers are leaving.
I agree about the older daughter also, the original was great, and Tim Allen should leave well enough alone and let the creaters of the show do the creating.
Burn Notice’s 2 hour premiere was a great show. I don’t understand how anything bad could be said about it.
It doesn’t seem to matter what the audience likes anymore anyway, the networks do what they want anyway.