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There was encouraging news last night for modestly rated freshman CBS comedy Partners. As the CBS Monday lineup returned from a three-week break, Partners (2.1/5) was even with its most recent airing while all other CBS series were down. The hold may be enough to clinch the series a back episodic order. Partners is the only new fall series that launched early in the season not to get a script or episodic pickup. Of the other CBS shows last night, How I Met Your Mother (2.8/7) was down 13% from three weeks ago to a season low, 2 Broke Girls (3.3/8) was down a tenth to tie its series low, Mike & Molly (2.8/7) was down 7% and Hawaii Five-0 (2.0/5) was down 5%.
NBC once again topped the night in adults 18-49, though its fast nationals may be inflated because of an NFL pre-emption in New Orleans. The Voice (4.5/11) was down 6% from last week, while Revolution (2.9/8) was down a tenth to a series low.
Look who’s back! Fox’s all-but-canceled freshman drama The Mob Doctor (1.0/2) made a return to the schedule after a four-week hiatus and was actually up a tenth from its last original. Its lead-in, Bones (2.0/5), was even with its last outing four weeks ago. ABC’s Dancing With The Stars (2.1/5) was down 9% from last week to tie its lowest-rated performance show ever. Castle (1.9/5) was down 14% to tie its series low.
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Partners is one of the most painful shows to watch. Tried again last night. It’s just not funny, and the actors desperation is excruciating.
Soooooo true. Needs to be cancelled.
Don’t any of you commenting have an actual sense of humor? Partners is hilarious most of the time! It sure beats Ashton Kutcher on 2 and half Idiots.
this show needs a pickup .. came out of the gates ‘lol’ funny .. that’s rare .. feels nostalgic .. and that’s okay .. economy is bad, people need to laugh .. this show makes people laugh ..
Not.
Yay, you get it!
PARTNERS is a clone stamp of WILL AND GRACE… not as Wonderfully written are THE NEW NORMAL…
Here’s my one vote for CBS giving Partners a ‘back 9′ episode order to reach the end of the season in May. I hope they do – I like the show and the cast I know CBS has other comedies ready to air, including Rules of Engagement, but I’d like to see more of Partners, particularly Sophia Bush.
Last night’s episode focused more upon her and David Krumholtz, with Michael Uri and Brandon Routh’s characters coming in for comic relief/punch lines. I think that dynamic works better than the focus always being on the David/Michael [Joe and Louis] dynamic. The storyline last night was terrific and let Sophia shine with Brandon’s Wyatt. Also, those two twin brother architects were pretty funny as well.
Keeping fingers crossed CBS will give Partners more time to grow their audience… with James Burrows behind the scenes, this show will get better and better.
How many miserably unfunny episodes do there have to be before they’ve given it enough time? Three episodes was enough for me to never, ever watch it again.
Agree.
It’s dreadful.
And when 2.5 out of 4 actors can’t land a joke, you’re in trouble.
CBS is just prolonging the inevitable if they order more Partners. Tried it, hated it, next.
IF CBS cancels it, PARTNERS should move to NBC, with these ratings it would be a hit there AND the creators already have history with them thanks to Will & Grace. Even though last night’s episode was terrible, I firmly believe the show has tremendous potential and with more inspiring writing the appealing cast could make this concept WORK.
Ask someone who knows what they’re talking about about the creators relationship with NBC.
Not gonna happen.
And more inspiring writing?
Who do you think is holding back on that?
If they had it, they’d be doing it.
What a mess CBS has. Terrible numbers.
It should be the last season for HIMYM. Keep 2 BG and Mike&Molly and dump Partners and the Hawaii five-0 remake.
Hawaii five-0 got 7.30 million viewers, that is pretty scary for CBS. I don’t even remember a CBS drama getting those low numbers in a week night in 15 years,
You know what makes CBS’ sitcom numbers even sadder? ABC’s Friday night sitcoms on the most difficult night to score big numbers beat out all of CBS’s sitcoms and H5.0 at 10pm in total viewers with the exception of Last Man Standing 8million viewers vs 2broke girls 9 million viewers. But, I watched both Last Man Standing and Malibu Country today and they were absolutely amazing. I predict they will stay strong on Fridays and probably consistently beat out the other sitcoms and comedies throughout the week. If they start pulling double digit total viewers and +3 demos, it will just confirm what I originally thought. These two sitcoms could have easily filled the bill on Tuesday or Wednesday….sad times in the CBS comedy block.
2 Broke Girls is a TERRIBLE show. It amazes me that it scores as highly as it does. I guess the titular characters are performed by taltented actresses, but absolutely everything else about the show sucks.
2 Broke Girls was actually up two tenths from the 3.1 it received three weeks ago. So….
Ugh. The show is gross. So desperate, charmless and unfunny. No chemistry anywhere. Should be filmed in period attire. Poor Michael Urie.
Thought the show was funny last night, definitely has potential. Would like to see the speech of the guys in the office slow down a bit, had trouble following the dialog. The Sofia scenes were great and love Superman!
I really enjoy The Mob Doctor. I’ll keep watching as long as it’s on!
It’s amazing how some people don’t like this show. I find it very funny and have gone back and watched a 2nd time just to keep laughing. Please keep it on the air….. As for the people that didn’t like it turn the channel back to murder she wrote in the old folks home cause you don’t know funny. That or simply change the channel there not begging you to watch it.
Partners and Mob Doctor need to bid farewell as it is too little, too late for those shows to survive a full season. Nashville needs a solid performance tomorrow night or it might be next on the chopping block.
Abc really must consider moving dancing with the stars to tues/wed. No reason two reality shows need to go head to head
I’d rather watch Whitney than watch this. And I’d rather be hit by a bus than watch Whitney.
This is like my FAVORITE new comedy! I LOVE Michael Urie, and Sophia Bush is great. I can’t believe abc renewed Neighbors, and THIS might get cancelled. (and agree, 2 Broke Girls is awful!)
I love Partners, it is my new favorite show! I adore Michael Urie. I live on Long Island and this show makes me laugh and forget about my life after “Sandy” for 30 minutes.
Can someone do something about the channel CBS Drama?
The problem with CBS Drama is that it doesn’t seem to give a damn about its viewers!
1.The links to the CBS Drama UK website do not work properly.
2.There is no Email address, contact telephone numbers or postal address where they can be contacted.
3.They show movies that are not available on DVD for example ‘GARDEN OF REDEMPTION’ and never tell viewers when they are on again!
4. There is no CBS Drama + 1hr so if you miss the beginning of the movie you may never see it again.
Is there any possibility that Sony may take over these people? If I could take them over I would sack their director and staff for what I see as their contempt for their viewers and making people like me very angry wasting hours of my time trying to contact them and get into their websites that are not working. Just follow the links on google and see for yourselves!
Regards
Dick Lawrence
ASHFORD
UK