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A week after hitting its largest audience and ratings ever, The Big Bang Theory (6.3/19) went bigger last night with new all-time highs. The 8 PM CBS science geek comedy pulled in 19.78 million viewers, exceeding the 19.25 million viewers and 3% better than the 6.1/18 rating the show received January 3. Big Bang wasn’t the only series to hit a new high last night: ABC’s Scandal (2.8/8) was back and burst its previous season high from December 13 with a solid 17% rise from that last original.
Following Big Bang on CBS, Two And A Half Men (4.2/12) slipped a bit from its season high of last week, down 7%. Person Of Interest (3.3/9) dipped 3% from tying its 18-49 demo high December 4. Elementary (2.4/7) was down 8% from last week. With 14.653 million watching, CBS won the night in total viewers and adults 18-49.
Having been previewed on December 17, NBC’s 1600 Penn (1.6/4) had its formal time slot debut last night at 9:30 PM. The White House comedy was down 27% from the preview and 6% from Parks And Recreation‘s prior average in the slot. Earlier in the night, 30 Rock (1.4/4) returned; heading toward its hourlong series finale January 31, the Tina Fey comedy was up 27% from its last original five weeks ago and matched its October 4 debut for a season high in the demo. An encore of the 1600 Penn pilot (1.4/4) followed. Back for the last portion of its final season, The Office (2.2/6) returned Thursday night too. The comedy series was up 5% from its last new show December 6. At 10 PM, Rock Center With Brian Williams (1.1/3) returned with a strong 38% rise from its last original December 20.
ABC kicked off its night with Last Resort (1.2/3), which was up a strong 20% from its last original December 13. That was followed by the return of Grey’s Anatomy (3.1/8), which saw a rise of 7% from its winter finale December 13.
From more multi-night airings last week, Fox aired a special Mobbed (1.2/3) on Thursday. The Howie Mandel hosted hidden camera show was up 9% from last week. Fox ended the night with a repeat of Glee (0.7/2).
On the CW, the 18th annual Critics Choice Movie Awards (0.6/2) pulled in an audience of 1.93 million; the live two-hour show drew its highest rating in all demos since its 2006 broadcast on the WB.
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WOW! Incredible! Epic! Awesome! Amazing! Great POI episode last night. I feel so sorry for people who don’t watch it. Best drama and what acting and writers. Only other so epic episode this season was Game of thrones – “Blackwater” and Revolution fall finale. Jonathan Nolan will make his debut as director on Person of Interest episode “Relevance” – February 21, 2013. This will be Sarah Shahi series debut too(her role sound like future POI spin-off). Best scripted and acted drama add and great names as directors. Hope JJ Abrams will direct at least one episode like Nolan. CBS can make one hour TBBT as lead in for this PoI major episode. They already do that on monday block with one hour 2BG. And CBS must advertise Nolan debut and episode “Relevance” like crazy on super bowl and grammys. From now i can say that will take Emmy and golden globe nomination. And if successful PoI spin-off will make fans and CBS happy.
Oh, for God’s sake, take a pill. Person Of Interest is “nice,” mainstream network fare; it isn’t getting anywhere near any awards nominations — nor should it.
With the possible exception of that Paul Reiser thing a couple seasons ago, “1600 Penn” has gotta be the lamest sitcom of the modern era. It wasn’t remotely funny, and I couldn’t even figure out where its writers thought trace elements of comedy might break free from their doltish script, where they figured a single laugh might come. What did the rest of NBC’s comedy development look like if this was what they put on the air? Holy crap.
1600 Penn was just awful. With all the promotion NBC has put into this, more than i’ve seen in a long time, the ratings tell you just how bad it is. The shows are supposed to improve from the pilot, but the second episode was even worse. There is just no chemistry or anything to latch on to and it simply isn’t funny. The whole pregnant daughter thing seems so outdated. Elfman seemed like she was in a different episode running around trying to shield the kids from finding out. It was so contrived and cliche. If that episode was supposed to be an improvement, NBC needs to start doing a better job with development and take some more chances.
OK guys after epic last night episode we have 3 weeks POI break, but after that 4 episodes in a row – 31(episode after BEST DRAMA EPISODE THIS SEASON), 7(super bowl week), 14(Grammys week), 21(Jonathan Nolan debut as director and Sarah Shahi series debut).
If CBS advertise it heavy and properly(use Nolan name) this will make POI true drama BEAST. Again quality is already there on LOST levels.(and all critics name LOST top 10 drama of all time) Hope CBS really do their job this show deserves only the best. Because is BEST.
I think someone referred to “1600 Penn” as a Chris Farley movie premise without Farley and that was apropos. Oddly enough, having a white president makes it seem even more outdated and like a sitcom from some bygone age. I would think centering a show in the White House would yield satirical content, not this wasn’t sharp.
It’s NOT SUPPOSED to be satirical.
I’m calling it now. Person of Interest had the best episode of the season last night–and the season is halfway through. One word: brillian.t
^ brilliant
Congratulations to the Big Bang team. Sometimes, all you want to do is laugh at the end of a long day, and Big Bang always delivers.
I am Trekkie I really enjoy Big bang theory LOL!
Yeah what going happen to Detective Carter
Gee, Thanks for that SPOILER!
when will the other networks realize that you don’t need to spend a zillion dollars on a comedy.
it doesn’t need to be edgy or provocative. Just funny, relatable and comfortable. More mult–camera shows please! CBS has all the good ones, but only BBT can I watch with my kids. NBC has a couple that feel like they can make it if given more of a chance and ABC is bringing back TGIF which I think is a great idea.
Joining the rest on 1600 Penn. Almost seemed forced and corny. The jokes were predictable and the acting almost awful.
NBC should have brought Community back earlier or maybe they will, once they cancel 1600 Penn- which IMHO, will be very soon.
New Abrams/Wyman FOX cop show must be like Abrams/Nolan POI with procedural structure and arcs. POI is best scripted and acted drama on broadcast TV. If they can move some of the writers and Greg Plageman to help Wyman the same way they do this with Nolan will be perfect. Only change can be younger cast and hot female lead for better 18-34 demo – its FOX, not CBS.
Agreed. I checked out 1600 Penn last night for the first time and won’t be returning. The show looks very polished, but there wasn’t a single laugh in the entire half hour. Pullman and Elfman are fine, but Josh Gad seems to be a black hole of comedy. As bad as the show was, it became instantly worse and unwatchable when his cretin character was on screen. Why is America supposed to be interested in this kid? Because he appeared in Book of Mormon? So what? Shows you how dumb NBC executives are, hiring an unproven no-name, one-hit wonder Broadway actor to create and anchor a show instead of Parker and Stone, who were the reason that BoM was funny in the first place. Please, somebody put this show–and this whole unfunny network–out of its misery. NBC = MUST FLEE TV
The only reason that BBT hit those high numbers this week was due to a number of articles written in the Bleeding Cool website about the fact that the female characters were going to a comics store. There was a lot of stirring the pot regarding how women are treated in comic stores, and a lot of people tuned into the show as a result of this “controversy”.
1600 Penn has two stars – Pullman and Elfman – but is written around Josh Gad. Nuff said.
The 1600 Penn pilot was terrible. But then again, the first few episodes of Community were unwatchable…