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On the second to last night before the end of the November sweeps, it was a bit of a rollar coaster on TV on Tuesday. Fox’s The Mindy Project (1.3/4) took a 19% dive from last week, falling to a new series low. On NBC, The Voice’s (3.3/10) live results show was down 15% from last week. Matthew Perry’s Go On (2.2/6) was flat with last week. At 9:30 PM, The New Normal (1.6/4) was down 11% from last week. That’s series low for the new Ryan Murphy show. Following The New Normal was Parenthood (1.6/5), which was also down. The comedy/drama fell 16% from last week, which is a tie for Parenthood’s lowest ever rating. Fox’s Raising Hope (1.5/5) was down one-tenth from last week. Newbie Ben and Kate (1.1/3) was flat with last week, which is a tie for its series low and New Girl (2.0/5) tumbled 9% from its November 13th show.
ABC’s Dancing With The Stars’ (1.9/6) live results show was even with last week. Happy Endings (1.2/3) however was down. The single camera comedy fell 8% from last week to hit a series low. It wasn’t better for Don’t Trust The B- In Apt. 23 (0.9/3). Down 18% from last week, the ABC sophomore also hit a new series low. The soon to be ending Private Practice (1.2/3) broke its downward run. The medical drama was up 9%from last week’s series low. On CBS, NCIS (3.0/9) was down 3% for its lowest fall rating since December 16, 2003. NCIS: Los Angeles (2.8/8) was flat from last week. That’s a season low for the procedural original and a tie for a season low for the West Coast spin-off. Vegas (1.8/5) had a good run at the ratings table. The Sin City drama was up 13% from last week. On the CW, Hart of Dixie (0.5/1) was down a tenth from last week. Emily Owen, M.D. (0.4/1) was even with last week. The medical drama has been moving up with Women 18-49 and posted its best (0.6/2) in that demo since its October 16 premiere. CBS won the night in terms of overall viewers – 13.91 million – and in the 18-49 demo.
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Those who didn’t watch ‘New Girl’ last night missed really good performances by Jamie Lee Curtis and Rob Reiner. Curtis lit up my TV screen — wowza!
Agreed. But the New Normal is flat out, unfunny garbage.
Got it on the DVR…
Every head of programming should take a long look at the material they are putting on the air. If you continue to shove crappy comedies down our throats, we will throw up. And then we won’t watch them anymore. Blame DVR, Tivo, internet, iPads, iPods, Surface, whatever you want to blame…fact remains, good shows still get good ratings (relative to today’s standards…4′s, and 5, are still possible…)…but a .9? A .9? Really? Yes, when you see how awful the writing is. Writing, storytelling is about drama, conflict, not hipster jokes that you tweet. Get rid of Apt 23, H. Endings, and all of the fox shows and the execs that work there and maybe, just maybe you might have something in the future…otherwise, don’t be surprised if all your comedies end up in the .9 region!
Now, what’s on cable that I can watch?
Yes, the bottom is here. Americans have flat out rejected gutter comedy with its potty mouthed lowlifes and flamboyant deviants. And I still say it was a concerted effort on the part of ABC, FOX, and NBC to fill the 9-10 pm hour on Tuesday with morally debased filth in an effort to force people to watch one or the other. In the end all they did was force people to stop watching the networks alltogether. I’ve noted before that between 10-15 million viewers just vanish at 9pm when the filth starts airing. They don’t turn to CBS. They just leave the major networks. Ten million viewers alone on ABC, cut out when Dancing With The Stars ends at 9pm. As I said back in May, CBS would be down but they would still beat the wheels off the other three networks even in a down cycle because of the garbage comedies filling up the 9-10 hour on the other networks. If I knew that back when I saw the schedule in May, shouldn’t Paul Lee, and the leaders at FOX and NBC also have known better. Why pay for laissez faire leadership? Hire people with the ability to turn your failing networks into well oiled machines like CBS. Next fall they, CBS, will absolutely crush the rivals on Tuesday if they can’t come up with drastic changes in their show development. And frankly, I don’t think the other network leaders are men enough to put up a challenging schedule that would make CBS have to work to stay number one.
So mad that ABC ruined the momentum Apt 23 had by placing it behind the ratings-challenged Happy Endings.
The Tuesday before thanksgiving is always a bad night for comedies. Let’s hope the DVR bounce is a good one!
Yeah, and for these shows… two Tuesdays before Thanksgiving was a bad night for comedies… and three Tuesdays, and so on, and so on.
It’s not the date. If it’s worth watching, we’ll watch.
Rarely watch any commercial TV and the remainder on sat is rapidly losing any loyalty/desire to watch. 400 plus channels and 98 percent of it is not interesting/entertaining. And then the networks and others wonder why nobody is watching or cares? Get some talent and fire some bean counters. Or your self fulfilling prophecy of zero audience will soon be achieved.
I wonder if Fox now regrets its 25 episode order for ‘Mindy.’
I wonder if there is any way they can get out of it? How much you want to bet there’s a team of lawyers examining that possibility right now?
I have tried The Mindy Project but Mindy’s character makes the show unwatchable.
The Mindy Project is GREAT and just got nominated for a Writers Guild Award, however, Todd, your lack of charcater makes your post UNREADABLE.
Wow. Those comedy numbers are pathetic. All shows stacked with “A-List” marquee writers. All very defendable decisions by comedy execs with no creative instincts being made strictly out of fear for their jobs. Comedy is clearly still dead. Grow a set, girls. Glad I’m a drama writer : )
I came up with a solution here, it might sound a little far fetched but hear me out! How about getting people to head up the comedy departments at these networks that have senses of humor, and who understand what’s funny? Crazier things have been attempted in the past, it’s at least worth a shot!
What then is funny?
Sadly, it’s not just the execs but the writers and creators too. The last New Girl I watched was an episode that was about a drinking game where nobody could touch the floor. It was one of the worst episodes of tv ever…didn’t even make sense. Not sure if it got better from there, but wow that was painful.
In the spirit of the holidays why not cut the networks a break ? Comparing to cable nets is such s slippery slope. Most have maybe 5 or so original programs per week, meaning they are filling the rest of their schedules with bad movies and off-network repeats. The “big four” networks on the other hand fill 22 hours per week with original programming. (15 hours for Fox). This is a monumental task
My wife & I love watching New Girl & New Normal back to back. We’re 30 somethings and both shows speak to us and make us laugh every week.
Mindy Project is horrid though. She’s totally unlikable and was born to be a character actress and not a lead. We quit on that early, but stick with New Girl & New Normal religiously.
The little girl on New Normal seriously needs to be nominated for a supporting actress Emmy. She steals every scene. I hope it doesn’t get cancelled. Fox should’ve done New Normal to pair with New Girl.
Are there two “The New Normals”? Because the one I saw stinks to high heaven. Laugh? I didn’t even smile during the entire episode. Pure trash.
I try, I try, I try but I can not watch network TV!! HBO,Showtime, FX have set the bar too high!
And so why did FOX renew The Mindy Project, knowing this show has been tumbling in the ratings and then giving it extra episodes? I can only envision this lasting just for one season though. What a crap program!
ABC seriously needs to consider moving Dancing with the stars to a Tuesday/Wed schedule — you can’t have two reality shows at the same time. The middle and neighbors can move to monday. Happy endings and apt 23 should go to Wed at 10P.
Too many shows – too little time. I disagree with many of the above posters. I think there is a lot of good comedy and drama on broadcast TV and certainly a lot of worthwhile programming on HBO and Showtime. I watch these every week religiously: THE GOOD WIFE, VEGAS, HAWAII FIVE-O, HAPPY ENDINGS, MODERN FAMILY, THE NEW NORMAL, THE MENTALIST, HOMELAND, BOARDWALK EMPIRE, NIKITA, MOB DOCTOR and when they return, SUITS, WHITE COLLAR, SHAMELESS, GAME OF THRONES, BREAKING BAD and ENLIGHTENED. I know there are a lot of other good shows on the air but there’s just not enough time to watch many more.
You just need to quit your job or retire early if you can , record everything with a DVR, and then lay about daily watching your shows. You’re only describing 10-15 hrs of programming per week – you’d pick up an add’l 40 or more by retiring early or quitting.
How long before “Mindy” is gone? Mindy Kaling is ok, but who wants to watch ANOTHER DR. show. I do not understand why she would choose such a “been there, done that” Dr. genre. She could’ve choosen anywhere but she choose to set it in a hospital. Plus, the writers write like they hate Mindy.
@Mart77- I tend to agree with you. Granted,I don’t watch every show on your list,but, there are definitely some worthy programs on the air. Not every show on television is awful. From your list I’d take The Mentalist. It is lots of fun to watch & I never miss it. Simon Baker’s performance is wonderful. The supporting cast members are also very good. One of (or perhaps) my favorite shows/show.
“Mindy” is 100% useless, and “The Voice” needs to be pruned down to a 6 week total run – not the endless “this round that round who the hell is competing against whom? format. “New Normal” is the only one of these shows worth wasting 30 minutes on – Ellen Barkin is doing the best work of her career. Unfortunately her character is becoming popular because the red state teabag wingnuts RELATE to her, not unlike that same contingent relating to Archie Bunker 40 yrs ago (and can you believe it was 40 years ago?)
Damn it ABC! Move Happy Endings and Bitch! Not like they’ll all of a sudden become huge, but they aren’t compatible with the older-skewing Dancing With The Stars at all and they wouldn’t look like such big failures if they’re not after a show doing over 12 Million weekly. It’s been said before, but make Wednesday night a 3 hour comedy block and put them after Suburgatory. Both Happy Endings and Apt 23 are two of the best sitcoms on TV right now. Going up against other younger-skewing comedies doesn’t help. Why must so many be on at the same time? I watch New Girl, New Normal, and Mindy as well but haven’t been watching them live since Happy Endings and Apt 23 returned because they’re on at the same time and I like the other two a bit more.