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Tuesday saw the two-hour debut of ABC’s competitive blind-taste cooking reality series The Taste (2.2/6) With chef and soon-to-be CNN host Anthony Bourdain, UK cooking guru Nigella Lawson, Lubo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey as judges/mentors, the show pits teams of professional and amateur chefs against one another. Pulling 6.04 million viewers, The Taste was up 5% from Dancing With The Stars’ Season 15 premiere rating on ABC in the same time slot on September 25. After six seasons, Private Practice (1.5/4) came to its end last night on the network. Although up 25% from last week’s show for a season high, the series finale of the Grey’s Anatomy spinoff was down 17% from the 1.8/5 rating it got for its last season ender May 5.
Private Practice wasn’t the only finale on TV last night. NBC’s Parenthood (1.7/5) wrapped up its fourth season, down 11% from its last winter finale on February 28, 2012.
CBS was all repeats Tuesday with NCIS (1.7/5), NCIS: LA (1.7/4) and Vegas (1.1/3). The long-running series were all No. 1 in their respective time slots, with NCIS the most-watched show of the night with 12.73 million viewers. CBS won the night in overall viewers with 10.466 million; ABC won in adults 18-49.
NBC hit primetime with its typical double shot of Betty White’s Off Their Rockers. The 8 PM (1.6/5) airing of the hidden camera seniors series rose 7% from last week’s show. The 8:30 PM (1.8/5) broadcast was flat with its January 15 episode. Following at 9 PM, Go On (1.3/3) had a hard night. The freshman Matthew Perry series fell a hard 24% from last week. The New Normal (1.2/3) was down 14% from its January 15 show. That’s season lows for both shows.
Fox kicked off its Tuesday comedy block with Raising Hope (1.7/5), which popped up 6% from last week’s show. Ben And Kate (1.2/3) also saw a slight rise, up 9% from its January 15 show. The highest-rated comedy of the night among adults 18-49, New Girl (2.1/5), was up 11% from last week. The Mindy Project (1.5/4) was flat.
The CW had a good night with Hart Of Dixie (0.7/2) up 17% and Emily Owens M.D. (0.5/1) up two tenths from last week.
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The New Normal is not funny. I don’t understand the logic of keeping this show on the scehedule.
I agree. I like Go On but I will usually watch something else since I can’t stand The New Normal. I had high hopes for this show as I enjoy Ryan Murphy’s other work.
I agree about The New Normal. I just tried to watch last night’s episode and barely made it through the credits before turning it off. I am done. It is cringe-making.
You’re crazy; “New Normal” is the funniest show to hit tv since “Whitney”! Also, being funny isn’t that important; it’s MUCH more important to be preachy about gay issues!
Loved The Taste! The rating will only go up with word of mouth…
“The Taste” is an ill-conceived, poorly executed mish-mash of every other cooking show on TV. The “master chefs”/”mentors” didn’t seem knowledgeable enough nor to know what they wanted from the food or the contestants. Gordon Ramsey tests his chef wannabes to blind taste the food, these judges could see it and still not know what they were eating (is it shrimp or scallop? And it was parsnip not potato)
They were totally inconsistent and contradictory all night. It was difficult to follow and needed a Tim Gunn like person or a host to keep the audience appraised of the situation. The reveal of the contestant was stupid: they looked like they were in horse boxes, and too far away from then judges and the lighting was horrific (you make the food look unappetizing on a cooking show!?). Smacked of excessive network interference – and what is ABC’s obsession with the definite article = The Voice, The Taste….The Worst.
The logic is: NBC has nothing else.
I like some cooing competitions so I watched the Taste. First of all all of the judges have an attitude, which I didn’t like. and I thought they were unfair with the people.What made no sense is to tell people I liked what you did, but I don’t want you. makes no sense.It took them two hours to have pick almost nobody. waste of time . I don’t see this lasting long
With last night’s series lows “Go On” and “The New Normal” have now lost 40-50% of their typical post-Voice audience, proving how much a strong lead-in still matters today. No wonder you won’t be seeing “Revolution” before the next cycle of “The Voice.”
I will never understand the appeal of NCIS. Is it just me or do any others out there feel as I do? Show has no soul.It feels empty to me. Doesn’t it seem like series lows are the “New Normal” over at Nbc? Now,Nbc orders MORE comedies? What will be their new Fall slogan?- NBC, N.othing B.ut C.omedies!!!
The strength of NCIS is its characters and the actors who portray them. TV is character driven and these folks resonate favorably wit the audience. Another strength is the very simplicity you complain of. It may feel empty to you but there are plenty of highly complex things to watch and NCIS serves as personality-propelled easy-to-follow entertainment which audiences can relax with and enjoy without being challenged. They have liked this formula for over 10 years now, as its numbers reflect.
I learned a long time ago that there are two types of people in the world: those who love NCIS, and those who can’t understand why anyone watch it. (I’m in the latter category, but I totally respect anyone in the former. Hey, each to his/her own.)
“The New Normal” and “Go On” are to funny shows with “Normal” being the funniest new show i`ve seen in a while, hopefully Runnels and Barkin and the lil girl will get some Emmy love this year they are breakout funny and you guys are killing NBC, NBC is the ONLY network bringing the funny 1600 Penn is also very funny too with Josh Gad the breakout star.
How much $ did ABC give Bourdain to do this? A bit hypocritical of him to be a judge on a cooking show when he has so verbally expressed his disdain for them. Oh well, I guess we all sell out at some point!
Bourdain has been a judge on Top Chef many times throughout the years, no surprise he pops up with his own show to host! As far as I remember, most of his tirades have been about cooking show personalities, not competition shows.
@Jimmy,you are $$$ooooo right.
Well, well, well, the dead has arisen, ABC. LOL. Wow, at The Taste with a 2.2 demo over 2hrs. If that continues and/or rises, with DWTS and BOP returning over the next 2 months, ABC will be open for business on Tuesdays. Much needed success after being the ratings doormat with crap like the unwatchable; The RIver, the delayed and forgotten, “V”, and the ratings despised Happy Ending and Bitch in Apt 23. …..Just looking at that list and thinking, Paul Lee knows how to pick ‘em(lol).
This show sucks you must be so dessperate Anthony can not beleive you indorsored this I am sure you are getting big bucks but your integrety has paid the price what a farce for a accompliance chef/cook for our mom or grandmoms are the true chefs take nothing and make it into something then charge for it go figure