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The second week of ABC’s Zero Hour (1.1/3) saw nightmares of Nazis, more secrets revealed and the Book of Revelation consulted. The new conspiracy drama also the ratings spiral downward. Coming off the lowest-rated in-season debut ever for a scripted show on ABC, the Anthony Edwards show fell 21% from last week. With a 1.3/4, the CW’s 8 PM The Vampire Diaries actually beat both Zero Hour and NBC’s Community (1.1/3) and the 8:30 PM Parks And Recreation (1.3/4) among the key 18-49 demographic for the hour. The CW show was up a strong 30% from last week while the NBC comedies were down 8% and 13% from last week respectively. Thursday also saw series’ lows for both NBC comedies. Beauty And The Beast (0.6/1) was also up on the CW. The show rose 20% from last week’s 0.5/1 fast nationals.
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The most watched show of the night with 17.35 million viewers, CBS’ The Big Bang Theory (5.4/16), slipped a slight 2% from last week while Two And A Half Men (3.9/11) rose a tad 3%. Person Of Interest (2.9/8) was down 3% and Elementary (2.3/6) was even with last week’s show. Last night’s atypical two-hour 8 – 10 PM American Idol (3.9/10) stayed in sudden death mode like the night before, eliminating five male contestants. The series bopped up 8% last night from the 3.6/11 fast nationals of last week’s one-hour airing. Idol also saw a 10% rise in viewers, up to 13.50 million from 12.3 million last week. On-air, things are looking dire as Seattle Grace-Mercy West hospital seeks investors on Grey’s Anatomy (3.0/8). However in ratings, things were looking up a bit, with the show rising 7% from the series low of its February 14 show. Ending primetime for ABC last night Scandal (2.7/7) was flat with last week. CBS topped the night in total viewers with Fox winning the 18-49 demo.
Three weeks into its fourth season, Community did have some good news with the show’s viewership rising 12% from its Valentine’s Day episode, up 3.078 million viewers from 2.760 million. The 9 PM episode of Parks And Recreation (1.4/4) was down 7% from last week’s 8:30 PM airing of the series. 1600 Penn (1.0/3) was back after two weeks but the time off didn’t seem to help the struggling political comedy. Thursday’s episode was down 9% from the freshman show’s last original on February 7 to hit a season low. In the slot that was supposed to be occupied by the quickly cancelled Do No Harm, NBC ended the night with a Law & Order: SVU (1.1/3) repeat which scored the best rating in the slot in five weeks.
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Zero Hour belongs on cable.
More silly ninja talent shows belong on ABC.
Hooray for Paul Lee!
Zero Hour was good. Problem is, as I stated before, the show needs promoting. I almost missed it myself, almost forgetting what night it’s on. Airing it on ‘Sunday’ didn’t help either.
Zero Hour is deep and most human beings are ….not. ABC please give it a chance for word of mouth to generate interest.
That sucks, I thought last night’s episode of Zero Hour was great. Hopefully ABC lets the season just play out since the story is pretty much just a miniseries anyway.
The real problem with zero hour is the acting. While i could see myself somehow liking the bizarre script (!!!), the main actor is truly a deal breaker..
I missed the first episode but tried to watch the 2nd last night. I was disappointed that there wasn’t a repeat of the first show earlier … because I didn’t understand a thing that was going on in episode 2, other than something portentous was supposedly driving the story which I knew nothing about … but it just seemed unreal and far fetched and I didn’t get it. After 10 minutes I gave up. This is apparently one of those shows that requires a dedicated viewing audience, investing their time to follow each show in chronological order… but since it’s unlikely to last, why bother?
The encore showing of the Zero Hour pilot aired last Sunday night.
Person of Interest was amazing last night! Fantastic episode — they’re really ambitious over there.
DITTO.
Sarah Shahi needs to be recurring, or even a regular. Heck, her character was strong enough to carry her own show!
If I remember right the idea was last nights show was a backdoor pilot for a spin-off series. I think that was what the producers were talking about a couple months ago in an interview.
just like nikita i don’t buy into 5 ft tall 90 pound little girls beating up 6 foot 200 pound men. takes away from credibility of show and character.suspension of belief is fat too tested.
It’s too bad about the #s for ‘Parks and Rec.’ I think it is one of the very best shows on TV, just a terrific cast and some excellent writing.
good for TVD…beauty and beast…not so much
Firing Harmon hit Community’s quality, negatively impacting its ratings and ensuring its cancellation.
Shame, because NBC is so weak that it would have been a lock for renewal otherwise.
It had some funny bits but the overall cohesiveness of the story just wasn’t there.
It looks like Community but doesn’t feel like it.
If NBC knew they were going to get rid of Harmon- they should have done the proper thing and told him to finish the series up with a good finale for season 3. The show would have been a classic and would have been a cult favorite.
Now- I am just so turned off by the whole thing. I didnt even have it in me to purchase the 3rd season box set because I don’t want to support the studio.
Person of Interest was down 3 %. Oh no,what happened Petar!!!
POI was down because they got a case of the fixits and came up with the worst episode where the principal characters barely appeared. The phrase ‘backdoor pilot’ has floated about – sounds better than ‘massive error in judgment’. When people like your show, they like your show and its characters – if they wanted another show with other charters, they would tune to that. Instead, looks like they tuned out.
Lots of fun tho to see how they rallied their troops to FB and Twitter – the last lame twit was that the kicka$$ gal they added (why is it they always think thats what a show needs?) had a gun to their heads, which was their explanation for the huge departure in format, while the troops are gushing about how this was the best episode ever, implying you didn’t ‘get it’ if you werent intelligent and how the actress who had to carry the show was such a find. Word to the runners – its the loyalty of the viewers you want, not the interns who manage your social networking sites.
If you really think this episode was an attempt to “fix” the series, I don’t know what to tell you.
Clearly, the people involved with POI are much better able at thinking outside the box than you.
I really don’t know what ABC does to promote new or even existing shows that need help. They just are not as savvy as the other nets at marketing and promotion and using the internet as a tool. I worry for those writer/producers that have pilots at ABC. Sadly, everything isn’t working there and your chances are slim anyone will ever know about it, even if your show is great. The only new shows that seem to work these days on ABC are reality shows. THOSE they will promote! Long live “The Taste”!
Our goal is to get Zero Ratings for Zero Hour. We don’t want anyone at all to watch it because it’s so good that normal people won’t understand it or appreciate it. Once we get to Zero Ratings then we will renew it for another season. It’s all part of our conspiracy involving 12 clocks that the Nazis hid all over the globe. Each clock contains a clue to unleash the Anti-Christ upon the world. Anthony Edwards has to rescue his wife and solve the mystery before Zero Hour or before Zero Ratings whichever happens first. So keep watching but only if you don’t have a Nielsen box in your home. We don’t want anyone watching if you are part of the ratings system.
It’s convenient how they included both the length of the show and its rating share right there in the title
LOL! Thanks for the laugh. I needed it.
I speculate that Zero Hour will conclude season 1 with the discovery of item the 12 new apostles hid from the Nazis. In order to hide the item, Hank and the “item” might have to travel to the past. Season 2 might have been about Hank’s life in Germany but since this show will be cancelled, I won’t be able to see it.
I find ABC TV’s post much more entertaining than anything Skylar James has posted.
I guess I’m the only one that thinks Anthony Edwards was miscast and that’s why the ratings are down. Don’t get me wrong he was good on ER, but something about the way he delivers his lines on Zero Hour has me thinking this guy is really boring, just saying.
Yes, Ricky Martin should have had the Hank role. Their are hot girls on the show but no sexy guys.
Haha. Rather than being snarky, I think the point should be taken. Zero hour got very little advertising 2nd week. It seems like a show gets one shot and then is out of luck if it doesn’t take hold immediately. Iwiuld have forgot it was on if I hadn’t DVR’d it.
I watched the first episode of “Zero Hour.” It was “The Da Vinci Code” all over again. I will likely continue to watch on a time-delayed basis, but it would have to get a lot more intriguing for it to be a “must see” show. Somehow, it just feels like a “been there, done that” for anyone who saw “Da Vinci” at the movies.
The best comedy on tv right now is on fx it’s called legit and it is funny as hell, an oddly touching . You want a good comedy try that one it is one of the best shows on tv.
Time for ABC to pull the plug on Zero Hour as they are about to reach that zenith sometime in the next week or two before it gets pulled. The NBC comedies are continuing to hurt this once powerful night for NBC and CBS continues to do well. Let’s face it…when the CW starts beating out your shows in the ratings, you have some major concerns to address and BOTH ABC and NBC need to address those concerns now, especially NBC on at least two nights.
Zero Hour is not good. Why? Writing.
It’s always the writing. Always, always, always. If you keep going to the same handful of Hollywood-approved writers you are never going to have enough good writing. You have 90% of guys working the same tired tropes, and 10% of guys who are fucking brilliant. You need the 10%, you need to lose the 90%, and in order to do that you need to increase the size of the gene pool. Now, in publishing we can live with that kind of ratio because we’re producing low-cost goods (books) for an effectively infinite number of slots. We’re spending chump change, so we can absorb shitty writers. You’re spending millions to grab one of a small number of slots — you shouldn’t be failing this often.
Too much product, not enough good writers. Do the math.
If you only hire from inside the clubhouse there are not enough good writers. That’s just a fact. So figure out how to reach the writers who have the skills but haven’t found their way into the clubhouse. Recruit, people, recruit.
Zero Hour can’t succeed in its time slot opposite Big Bang Theory. I find Zero Hour compelling and quite well done so far, but being a fan of Big Bang, I have to watch Zero Hour online. I can’t understand those who do the time slot programming.