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One week after its second season debut, Fox’s Touch (0.7/2) took a hit last night. The Kiefer Sutherland drama fell 22% from its two-hour February 8 premiere. Touch’s overall viewership headed southward as well, down to 2.52 million from the 3.77 million who watched last week’s debut. Touch wasn’t the only show dealing with the second week straits Friday night. CBS’s new reality show The Job (0.7/2) also took a blow. The Mark Burnett and Michael Davis produced series about seeking your dream job also fell 22% last night. The 8 PM airing of The Job was watched by 3.37 million on Friday night, down from last week’s 4.11 million.
Other CBS shows Friday felt some hurt too. CSI: NY (1.2/4) was down 25% from its February 8 show to match a season low for the drama procedural. Blue Bloods (1.4/4), on the other hand, took only a slight downward turn. The Tom Selleck-lead police series was down 7% from last week’s 1.5/5. Blue Bloods was the most watched show of the night with 10.62 million viewers.
Over on ABC there were some dips and falls too last night as well as a rise. Last Man Standing (1.4/5) was down 7% from last week while fellow comedy Malibu Country (1.1/4) took a 15% fall. Shark Tank (1.8/6) was even with last week and 20/20 (1.5/5) closed out the night with a 15% rise from its February 8 show. Back after two weeks, Kitchen Nightmare (1.1/4) was up 10% from its February 1 show The Gordon Ramsey hosted Fox series also saw a 10% rise in overall viewership, up to 3.2 million from 2.9 million. 
NBC kicked off its Friday news night with a two-hour Dateline NBC (1.3/4), which slipped 7% from its last show a week ago. Last week Brian Williams jokingly remarked upon his show’s recent movement all over the schedule but now in its second week in its new Friday slot, Rock Center (1.1/3) must be finding some stable footing. The news mag show dipped just 8% from its February debut in the Friday 10 PM slot. Not bad when you consider how Rock Center roared into the slot last week, up 63% from its last airing in its previous Thursday slot on January 24. Also not bad when you consider that the show is up 10% in the 18-49 and up 32% in total viewers compared to its Thursday night averages earlier this season. CBS won the night in terms of overall viewers with 7.499 million while ABC was tops in the adults 18-49 demo.
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Well there go any chances of a third season for Touch.
On the other hand, unlike Fox’s usual let’s cancel, I think they will let it finish the season no matter how low the numbers go.
Fox is time slot killing this show.
It’s a very good show and this season is even improving, but on friday night nobody will even get a chance to notice. Maybe a 3rd season is possible if Keifer and Chernin remind fox how much it owes them.
Malibu Country is basically a 90s style sitcom throwback and an out and out assault on the viewers intelligence. Total waste of a time-slot.
Malibu Country’s still on the air? Wish there were some good shows on TV to watch. Maybe we need to bring some of those real Malibu residents, the good writers, producers, directors out of retirement.
Never watched Malibu County but find the comment about it being a 90′s style throwback interesting. Boy, we don’t want any of those. Seinfeld, Friends, Raymond, King of Queens, all of those terrible shows that everyone is still watching day and night in syndication. By throwback,could you mean funny?
Guess Fox is regretting letting Fringe go now…
Jon,
I don’t think so.
Sometimes I wonder why Abc brought Tim Allen back? Based on the declining #’s for Last Man Standing, it appears others may be wondering the same thing.
Delusional often? Attacking LMS for winning its timeslot yet again when everything around it crated on the night. You’ve got mental issues that have nothing to do with Last Man Standing’s first plce ratings win.
TV needs to let of this outdated demo. it’s about VIEWERS.
TV will let go of it when the ad agencies let go of it, which they never will because people hate to change.
More likely they regret canceling The Chicago Code. It had so-so ratings like ABC’s Scandal difference is ABC saw value in what it had and is now reaping the award. Shawn Ryan suggested if it was possible to keep it midseason regretably decided to with pilots at the time Touch and exit strategy.
George,
I don’t think FOX is regretting cancelling any of these low-rated shows. They are in search of a HIT.
THE JOB feels mega-fake and scripted. It’s part in-your-face infomercial and part fake game show (much like that designer “contest” on Starz).
The fresh-out-of-college girl who speechified as if she was on a beauty pageant and walked the streets on her “power heels” won the job because she had the nerve to pull out the race card. Are you f-ing kidding me?
Oh, and I won a bet because that 50 year old contestant was shot first. I don’t believe for a second that that woman would show up unprepared.
Malibu Country is no REBA, as REBA was funny and smart and Malibu Country seems to be all over the place and just not a good show whatsoever. As for The Job, CBS really needs to cancel this crap once and for all as it’s an insult to job seekers worldwide. Whoever thought this idiotic concept would work anyways?
CSI:NY still doubled its horrible lead-in. After next week’s season (series?) finale, CBS is going to be in bigger trouble on Fridays. GB is guaranteed to flop. (Although I could see CBS keeping it on Tuesdays after two week experiment and moving Vegas to Friday nights.)
DenverDean,
Golden Boy is not going to flop and it will stay on Tuesdays. The main character is Mr. Pamuk from Downton Abbey! (Yum!)
I don’t understand why CBS picked up “Golden Boy.” It is just cringe-worthy. From the previews, the lead looks like a total brat. I will be absolutely shocked if it gets high ratings.
If LMS was a good program in ANY way-why was it moved from Tuesday to Friday nights?! Aren’t Friday nights reserved for garbage that can’t survive on other days of the week? And one more thing-winning your timeslot on a Friday night isn’t something to write home about.If you only win your timeslot BECAUSE everthing else cratered-that actually says more about your competition & less about the subpar quality of your own show. Pretending LMS is a good program-who’s delusional now? By the way , I actually used to watch & somewhat enjoy LMS,but, they changed this program from last year and not for the better. If you think this is the same program from last year•••you not only have issues•••you have the whole subscription!
I think FOX’s decision to renew Touch has less to do with Sutherland being “owed” and much more to do with the fact that he (and the show’s international premise) made for really strong global sales. I suppose it’s possible that Touch could still be profitable for FOX despite its poor network ratings. There’s no good data on its international value. I just don’t think a show so low in its episode count can skate by like Fringe did.
CSI:NY was set up to fail this season. They started at 7pm with the atrocious “Made in Jersey” wedged between them and ” Blue Bloods”. The last two years, it seems CBS has been try to kill CSI:NY off. They had some novel scripts this year. They are going to kill “Vegas” off too because the program is too expensive and not enough 18-46 yr olds are watching it. If they move it to Fridays, the revenue will die,
Golden Boy on Friday is a mis-match: two TV shows about NY Police Commissioners back-to-back? How stupid! I watched it because I like Chi McBride. He was great in Boston Public and Fox killed that show.
I pray that they dont cancel Touch!!!!!!! Its my favorite show and it really deserves more viewers!!