
Two Monday series found out their fate since their last airings, with Fox renewing The Following yesterday and the CW cancelling 90210 on Friday. Neither decision had an impact on the shows’ ratings last night as both The Following and 90210 matched their 18-49 ratings from last week. With CBS in mostly repeats, The Following (2.8/7, 8.7 million viewers) was the top program of the night in adults 18-49 and total viewers. Paired with veteran Bones (2.2/6), which was off a tenth, Fox won the night in 18-49.
ABC‘s The Bachelor had another solid showing this season, with the two-hour Women Tell All special posting a 2.7/7, up 8% from last year’s Women Tell All episode. A repeat Castle (1.4/4) won the 10 PM hour over an original Deception (1.1/3) and a Hawaii Five-0 rerun (1.3/4). NBC’s Deception was down 8% from last week to match its all-time low. The Biggest Loser (2.1/6) was even with its fast national last week, down a tenth from the final. The only original on CBS last night was Rules Of Engagement (2.2/6), which was down 19% from last week when it had an original How I Met Your Mother lead-in to hit a season low. On the CW, The Carrie Diaries (0.5/1) was up a tenth from last week, while 90210 (0.3/1) was flat.
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That Kevin Bacon program seems to be developing quite The Following.Great news! It is a tremendously entertaining & fun program to watch. I don’t even care that half the time I don’t believe what’s happening on-screen is even plausible-believability be damned! The show is just fun!!!! I look forward to watching it every week. Looking forward to the rest of this season & to next season as well.
Wow, what a strong performance from The Bachelor special presentation. Thanks Nellie for answering a question I had on my mind when I first saw the ratings for The Bachelor: Women Tell All. Up 8% from last year confirms just what I suspected a few weeks ago. The ratings for The Bachelor Finale next Monday, “The Superbowl of tv Matchmaking,” will be GINORMOUS.
I blame media critics reviewers who sometime give their negative talk on new show starting which hurts their chances to grow an audience…like they did for deception…what happened to giving shows chance did people forget that scandal was so so in its first season!!! Besides nielsen ratings do not represent me so I wonder who are those so called families.
I found this program to be quite entertaining but wholly unbelievable. Almost a newer, less fantasized “Lost”. The utter incompetence of Bacon and the Keystone FBI should be fixed. It would energize the plot if the FBI wasn’t such a gaggle of stooges and people with handicaps (like alcoholism or nerves) which would immediately disqualify them from real police work, weren’t throwing a behavioral wrench so frequently.. Having said that, I do enjoy the suspense, but wish they could do better with the pace and the “surprises” which can be gimmicky.
Where else but on The Following can you have an Englishman AND a supposedly vaunted professor say “….for her and I”? Got to tighten up on the writing and the believability of the plot.
Of course I know I am being a realism curmudgeon here, but I do like to see something that doesn’t require that I “suspend disbelief” so frequently/incessantly.
the movie The Following is really getting mor like CSI Miami, with Kevin Bacon playing Horatio.