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The live Season 3 finale of NBC’s The Voice (4.9/13) last night was a finale and season high for the singing competition show. With Cassadee Pope declared the winner, the conclusion to the show’s first fall season was up 11% from The Voice’s Season 2 finale on May 8. With an audience of 14 million watching the 9-11 PM broadcast, Tuesday night’s Voice was also up 18% from the previous finale in total viewers; the two-hour Season 2 ender pulled in 11.926 million viewers and a 4.4/12. The one-hour Season 1 finale, which aired on June 29, 2011, earned a 3.7/13 rating and 11.046 million viewers. On Tuesday, NBC ran a Voice (2.4/7) repeat at 8 PM before the live finale.
On CBS, all three of the network’s dramas were up from last week. NCIS (3.3/10) grew by 18% from last week’s season low and was the night’s most-watched show with 19.41 million viewers. NCIS: LA (2.9/8) was up 12% from its season low last week, and Vegas (1.6/4) rose 7% from its first-season low.
CBS won Tuesday in total viewers, while NBC was tops in adults 18-49.
Fox ran all repeats Tuesday with Raising Hope (1.0/3), Ben And Kate (0.8/2), New Girl (0.8/2) and The Mindy Project (0.6/2). On ABC, it was a Charlie Brown Christmas (1.7/5) at 8 PM. The holiday special was down a slim 6% from its December 15, 2011 airing. Happy Endings (1.3/4) was up 8% from last week, with Don’t Trust The B—- In Apt 23 (1.1/3) rising 10% from its December 11 show. Private Practice (1.2/3) was flat with last week.
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caught H.Endings last night…hadn’t seen it in a while for the reasons mentioned below. Happy I haven’t. Counted 2 laughs total, and one was a courtesy laugh. It’s turned into a sketch fest with just plain awful writing. Do they just let the actors do whatever they want on set and then fall in love with the “wacky and zany” performances? I don’t know what this show has less of: good writing, or honest performances. Either way, won’t ever watch again. Shame too because some of those actors are very talented.
I could not agree more. Happy Endings is the show I want to be good — that never is. There is not one real moment in the entire show. Every single moment is filled with characters either screeching, taking a pratfall, or making a tv/movie reference.
A shame, because I was laughing from start to finish – mostly from the fantastic writing, and amazing performances by the cast, and from POV of the target audience, Happy Endings is one of the comedies on TV that does the best job of turning mundane, real-life situations into sitcom worthy performances.
To each their own.
I keep sneezing. Must be this plant.
Hey Monday’s Cassadee Pope is clearly the biggest name to be on The Voice. Hey Monday had a Top 25 album. They had a Top 40 single. They did headlining tours. They performed on the Warped Tour. When she left the band, it made every single music media outlet. It is not surprising ratings were up. That said, it made the competition unfair and lopsided, particularly by NBCs ever-changing rules to guarantee a Pope victory. The show has lost any and all credibility with its manipulated results. They are clearly desperate to have someone from The Voice to be considered a success. Well I certainly won’t be watching season 4. Embarrassing.
@ Rob …
I didn’t know or had NEVER heard of Hey Monday (I had to check YouTube) That sure is a lot of semi success/failure and the show made no indication Cassadee Pope had any experience. I do feel cheated finding out this information now and it does seem very manipulated.
The first 2 winners of the Voice didn’t have any impact on the music industry AT ALL, let alone Hey Monday accomplishments. They faded right back into obscurity. Which is obviously why the show desperately needed a female winner and who’s to say that won’t happen to Cassadee Pope again. Based on the music she was singing to win the show, what does she plan to become a country cover artist? Plus when she was singing with Kelly Clarkson last night, and she tried to go note for note, Cassadee’s true weaknesses were evident. She is NOT the next Kelly Clarkson. Plus, it seems like she is trying to be Avril Lavigne 2.0 and she really couldn’t even muster her singing ability. What it comes down to is having the ear to find hit singles, if you can’t write them yourself. if she was responsible for Hey Monday’s “Singles” qnd none of them were genuine mainstream HITS, then she won’t last long at all !!
I know that Fox aired all repeats,but, with those type #’s (1.0/3),(0.8/2),(0.8/2),(0.6/2)-doesn’t it seem like Fox is sinking into CW territory on Tuesday nights? I mean,even a Charlie Brown Christmas(1.7/5) got higher numbers than any of the repeats. Fox is clearly a network on the way down & The Mindy Project/other lame comedies aren’t going to stop their current downward spiral.
And now there is a book out telling behind the scenes stuff about Idol and how they try to manipulate who they want as a winner. Didn’t seem to work with some of their winners who disappeared into obscurity, but it makes sense of the stupidity of the voting off of people who became the bigger stars…Jennifer Hudson and Daughtry and the unbelievably moronic choice of a no talent over Adam Lambert.
There is no way the other contestants had a chance, I work for a marketing company and Blake Sheltons likeability factor goes across race and gender lines (basically he is liked by blacks, whites, Asians, Hispanics, etc. as well as both male and female audiences watching the show) , it will make it very difficult for the other judges as the they had better contestants than Blake Sheltons team but he had the likeability factor ! Our research shows that audiences vote is 70% determined by the likeability of the judges and that affected the outcome of who the winner was. We had estimated that the top 3 would be under Blake Sheltons team with a certain percentage of error but the contestants in Team Blake was so awful that it turned out the top 2 was from team Blake ! Based on this next years contestants vote will be determined by the likeability of the judges and it will skew the favor to team Blake winning again in the Voice next season !