Ratings Rat Race: ‘Undercover Boss’ Down In Return, ‘CSI: NY’ Flat In Finale, ‘Nikita’ Drops

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• Seems noone wants to “touch” that Kiefer Sutherland show.A smart man already fielding pilot offers. Also,am I the only one wondering when Abc will wise up and cancel/eliminate/shelve/dispose of LMS & Malibu Country. Seriously,these are two of the biggests blahs on the air. Both of these programs are just not funny.

  Comment by Ouch!,these ratings hurt! — Saturday February 23, 2013 @ 11:36am PST  Reply to this post

  • Last Man Standing and Malibu Country are both doing solid work on Friday. There’s just a ceiling on the kinds of ratings that can be had there and they’re both low cost multi-cam formats. ABC isn’t going to go replace them with more scripted shows, it’s just going to be even lower cost reality TV, so when you complain that you don’t find them funny, it’s not like you might wind up with a couple of half-hours you think are better. It’s just going to put people out of work. Good thing Blue Bloods is a lock to return.

    Touch is a whole other story. Just a bad idea from the start. Keifer’s fans wanted to see him as a badass, not a father running around in some weird conspiracy.

    Comment by Steve — Saturday February 23, 2013 @ 12:35pm PST  Reply to this post

• Will be sorry to see CSI:NY end, but it had a good run. For any pilot and writing/producing team looking to class-up and strengthen their chances of having a successful pilot go to series commitment, hiring Sela would be a terrific idea. She’s one of the classiest ladies around.

  I see so many pilots out there, and their loglines sometimes make me roll my eyes, but if the right director and actors get hired, it can really help legitimize these scripts – it can only help. And for the directors and actors, even if the pilot doesn’t get picked up, taking on a new challenge can really push them into new territories and showcase more of their skills.

  I’d love to see Sela in a comedy – she once did a guest spot on Frasier – she was very good. CBS would be well advised to keep her close by; placing someone like Sela on a pilot like the Julie R/Elisa Z pilot [aka Mother's Day] would be a real opportunity to push that show in a direction perhaps not obvious to casting directors. If they alter the age of the lead character slightly, Sela could turn heads in this role and help the pilot stand out.

  Comment by Nero theTVFiddler — Saturday February 23, 2013 @ 11:43am PST  Reply to this post

• CSI:NY’s demo might be flat with last week, but their overall viewership did rise from 8.5 million to 9.4 million.

  Comment by MG — Saturday February 23, 2013 @ 12:05pm PST  Reply to this post

• LMS is NOT blah and doing great — have you ever even watched it? That 1.3 in the overnights will turn into a 1.4 or 1.5 in the nationals, like it does every week. Then when it gets an overnight 1.3 again next week they’ll bemoan that it’s down 7% again from ithe weekly national number that it always gets.

  Comment by Footman — Saturday February 23, 2013 @ 5:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• I see LMS and Malibu Country being adjusted up, and renewed for next season. CSINY I’d like to see brought back for a short final season, but will be ok if it doesn’t. Just don’t put trash in its place.

  Comment by MikeS — Saturday February 23, 2013 @ 11:19pm PST  Reply to this post

• Sick of people talking about how canceling bad scripted programming puts people out of work. Do you think reality shows just make themselves? I’ll take a series like Shark Tank over crap like Last Man Standing any day.

  Comment by Ted — Sunday February 24, 2013 @ 9:25am PST  Reply to this post

  • Sick of idiots bashing amazzing comedic work just for the sake of bashing them or often times, just for the sake of promoting filth and homosexuals as some type of artful comedy. Last Man Standing was brilliant this week. It was one of the funniest episodes yet. It was the funniest comedy I saw all week and I actually watched three of last week’s most watched and highest rated comedies: Modern Family, Big Bang Theory, and Two and A Half Men. Your idea of “genius” comedic work is probably shit like Community, Suburgatory,The Neighbors, and Park & Recreeation, where idiots run around trying to be as obnoxious, disgusting, and perverted as possible all night long. And like those characters, you’re not even man enough to defend what you think is strong comedic work, much less man enough to have even seen one of the most creative and hilarious episodes of Last Man Standing in its two seasons. LMS ratings are fine, it deserves better, and being ABC’s 2nd best comedy, it belongs with Wednesdays comedy block to build it up instead of all the garbage that Paul Lee places there to tear down the strong block Steven McPherson created. ABC’s Wednesday night block is a shell of what it use to be because Paul Lee is too much of a moron and too much of a “something else” to actually promote decent family sitcoms on ABC’s once shining star of a night. Even Malibu Country is starting to get some consistency in the writing and a semblance of great comedic timing and flow, but yeah it’s still an improving work in progress.

    Comment by Marc5 — Monday February 25, 2013 @ 3:02am PST  Reply to this post