Coming back after last Friday’s repeats, the end of the week brought strong numbers for CBS last night. Undercover Boss (1.9/6) was even with its last original two weeks ago but the reality show had its biggest viewership of the season with a new high of 9.86 million. CSI:NY (1.5/5) was down a tenth from its last new show on January 18. At 10 PM, Blue Bloods (1.5/5) was even with its last original of January 18 but the family police drama was the most watched show of the night with an audience of 11.40 million. That’s a dip from the 11.5 million who watched two weeks ago, the largest viewership of the season for the show. CBS won the night in total viewership and among Adults 18-49 but ABC was just a nudge behind in the key demo.
ABC’s comedies Last Man Standing (1.3/5) and Malibu Country (1.1/4) started the network’s Friday. The former was even with its last new show two weeks ago while the latter dipped a tenth. Back with a new show after three weeks at 9 PM, Shark Tank (1.9/6) was up four tenths from its last airing. The would-be entrepreneur series also took its time slot among the 18-49s. With 5.08 million watching, 20/20 (1.5/5) was up from the 1.4 it got last week among Adults 18-49.
Related: The 44th NAACP Image Awards Winners
On NBC, The 44th NAACP Image Awards (0.8/3) sprinkled some of of the awards season on TV last night with top prizes given out to Scandal’s Kerry Washington, Flight’s Denzel Washington and Jamie Foxx. The live 8-10 PM show was even with last year’s broadcast in the ratings but actually rose 3% in viewership to 3.047 million – that’s a four-year high. Of course, being live the ratings for the NAACP Awards are approximate and it is likely that there could be a significant shift in the final numbers. Following the NAACP Awards, a new Dateline (1.1/3) was down a tenth from last week’s show. After a lack of competition last Friday, Fox’s Kitchen Nightmare (1.0/3) took a hit last night. The second week in the slot, the Gordon Ramsay hosted reality show was deflated 29% from its January 25th show. That was followed by an encore of The Following (0.7/2), which was down 36% from the repeat of the new series that ran last week. On The CW, and now facing a night of originals, Nikita (0.4/1) slipped from the 0.5/2 of last week’s season high.
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Ouch for FOX’s Gordon Ramsey kitchen show and The Following repeat. Down 29% and 36% respectively, they really took it on the chin. Meanwhile good news abounded for CBS and ABC, save for Malibu Country, which had one of its best episodes last night. Malibu Country was every bit as funny as Last Man Standing, for the very first time, and yet it takes a ratings dip. Sometimes ratings aren’t fair to the quality of the episodes. What can you do???
Dominic, I hope you watched or recorded the NAACP awards. Did Kerry Washington, Scandal, and Shonda Rhimes dominate or what! Kerry Washington: Best Actress in a drama- Scandal
Loretta Devine: Best Supporting Actress in a drama- Grey’s Anatomy
Scandal- Best Drama
And my own creations – best crowd reaction/ applause award: Tony Goldwin, who portrays the POTUS on Scandal. The audience went nuts when he came out(particularly, the female fans).
The SHOUTOUT awards- to Tyler Perry’s House Of Payne for sweeping the comedy award categories and to Red Tails for winning Oustanding Motion Picture over Beasts of The Southern Wild, and Django Unchained, and to Denzel Washington for his surprise win for Best Actor in a moion picture for Flight.
Oh….noooooo..say it ain’t so….good bye Starz…hello Showtime…forDexter…smh…was only keeping it for BOSS…not fair
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It is unfortunate that “Ratings” do not include all the downloads and all the, viewed on-line content/traffic that Undercover Boss has tallied up. Yes, the series has taken a less glamorous route in the Fourth Season, yet you can just feel the excitement building for an explosive or unbelievable fifth season. To many people are catching on. It is my belief, that the program could and should find its way; in to, Goverment and State jobs. That part of the employment sector is a completely different sub-cultural. Less about Ratings and more about real, life changing situations. The person above me is important, as is the person next to me, in front of me, behind me, a mile away from me and all other places people are, in relation to me. I love feeling good and the one thing that feels even better, for me, is wondering how it feels, feeling, what the person feels, when his/her eyes are opened to the moment, the moment when they feel terrible, about whom they become. You can make money, while treating others as you would like to be treated!