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One reality competition veteran began its season last night as another ended its latest one. ABC’s Dancing With The Stars (3.1/8) returned for Season 16 with a two-hour debut Monday as The Biggest Loser (2.6/7) wrapped up its 14th cycle. Coming off record lows and double-digit declines a season ago, DWTS is hoping to pull out all the stops to find its footing. (One such attempt was the addition of The Bachelor star Sean Lowe last week to this year’s celeb contestants.) DWTS also didn’t have to face NBC’s The Voice like it did for last spring’s season premiere. The dance series’ season debut last night was up 24% over its Season 15 premiere on September 24, making it the highest-rated show of the night among adults 18-49 and the most-watched show overall with 16.76 million viewers. However, head-to-head with Biggest Loser and CBS’ comedy lineup, DWTS was down 11% from last year’s Season 14 premiere on March 19, marking the lowest spring debut ever for the long-running series. And the landscape will change even more next week when ratings heavyweight The Voice and the J.J. Abrams-produced Revolution return to NBC.
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Having been one of the few shows to top a 2.0 rating this year for in network’s faltering primetime, Biggest Loser ended this season strong. Coming off last week’s season low, the weight loss series was up 30% from its March 11 show. Loser also rose 18% from last season’s finale May 1. Following Loser, Deception (1.3/3) also wrapped its season to make room for the return of Revolution next week. The freshman soap drama was up 18% over last week’s show. ABC won the night in total viewers and among 18-49s.
After DWTS, ABC ended Monday with Castle (2.2/6), which dipped 4% from its last original on February 25. CBS had a full comedy load last night starting with How I Met Your Mother (2.9/9), which was down 12% from its last new show three weeks ago. Rules of Engagement (2.2/6) bopped up 5% from last week, while 2 Broke Girls (2.7/7) had an 18% slide from its last original three weeks ago, a series low for the comedy. Mike & Molly (2.4/6) also was down: The Chuck Lorre-produced show fell 11% from its February 25 original to a season low. On the other hand, Hawaii Five-O (2.1/6) saw a slight 5% rise last night from its last original February 18.
Bones (2.0/6) started the night for Fox. The procedural was down 9% from its last original two weeks ago. Freshman The Following (2.4/6) followed, falling 11% from last week.
The CW had an original The Carrie Diaries (0.5/1), with the Sex And The City prequel hitting its highest-rated show since February 11. Diaries was followed by an encore of Hart Of Dixie (0.2/0).
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I’m trying to remember how Revolution ended last year. It’s been a long time and NBS did not re-run any episodes to remind viewers of the show’s plot line thus far.
N B C has had the last five episodes available online since November.
Well to say the least Dancing with the Satrs – only reason I watch it sometimes is the outfits and the prpfessionals..otherwsie half the people they have on the past several years are horrible and are not stars ..why would you put Sean the bachelor..he is not a star he just so happens to be picked from one incident and they made it into a big deal on the Bachelor ..he was a nobody selling insurance come on does the station think or DWTS have any clue to what kind of people will be interesting or the kind of so called stars to put on the show is a joke and it makes this show less and less viewable…after a well it gets boring! Sean does not know how to dance ..sure if I practice like that I can catch on somewhat…he looks good because he takes his shirt off and the professional dancer makes him look good with all the lights and glamour etc..and I cannot stand when the audience moans when the judges gives a negative comment..so what …I guess people watch it for drama and whatever else..I hope they vote Sean off…why not have real life heros stars be part of that star and give those people coverage instead of these no bodies who did not help society or whatever …also for Sean having his wedding on TV ..I guess they want coveragte and fame and someone to pay their bill that is the reason why these reality so called people do this and we buy into this…we should be focusing on real life heros (stars) within each community…well if it gets ratings up …..what a waste of time and energu
Its about time that dancing with the has beens gets some real stars. How about at least 1 ?
DWTS numbers are still strong. However, nobody knows these people.
The cast is just terrible this year. In seasons past I had at least heard of half the stars, in the beginning seasons even more. This season, I’ve only heard of a handful. Or if I hadn’t heard of them, you could see six or seven being really viable candidates for the trophy and wanted to vote for them. This year, you have a few really obvious front runners. The new dancers are also sort of vanilla.
And in the post-dance moments yesterday most were bland and disengaging.
I was hesitant about the cast but it doesn’t matter because this show is just so much fun to watch.
2 Broke Girls – how many vagina and dong jokes can one show make without it becoming pathetic and unfunny? I think we’re finding out now.
Any truth to the rumor of a celebrity version of “Dancing with the Stars”?
Haven’t seen How I Met Your Mother in years but I watched it last night. Is every episode this painfully unfunny and laden with bottom-feeder jokes? Felt like the once-intelligent characters were flouncing in the same toilet bowl as those on Two Broke Girls. Wow was it bad.
Not all this are that bad.. but last night really felt forced. Only laughed once Barneys ‘sounds like someones been writing their vows’ joke was good. But that was it.
@I’m trying to remember how Revolution ended last year. It’s been a long time and NBS did not re-run any episodes to remind viewers of the show’s plot line thus far.
I am not from US but i think they sold Revolution to netflix so you can watch it from there. In Europe we watch it for free.
CBS has moved from being the best night of the week to the most terrible one, 2BG makes me nauseous with their untasteful jokes, M&M fat jokes have moved from sweet to boring, and the remake of Hawaii 50 should had been canceled in the first season, the less charismatic cast of B-actors in TV , no writer can fix that.
I have been watching The Following, that is a great show. Great writing and acting, And I cannot wait for The Voice and Revolution, my two favorite shows in TV right now.
No matter how you slice DWTS numbers from Monday, comparing them to Season 14 or comparing them to last season, the fact remains at the end of the day that ABC and DWTS won the demo(3.1) and total viewers(17 million)from 8-10pm by substantial margins. DWTS utterly dominated CBS’ comedies, gave Castle(+11million viewers, 2.2 demo) a huge boost, and even knocked the FOX scripted shows down several pegs. ABC also won total viewer and demo ratings for the night, so that is quite the feat coming from a show in its 16th season. Listenng to the watercooler talk today, most people seemed pleasntly surprised by the performances. I heard Kelli Pickler’s and Andy Dick’s name mentioned most of the time in affirmative tones.
On another note it is not surprising that people are tiring of CBS guttergarbage comedies. Big Bang Theory and Two & A Half Men have been on a precipitous downfall for the last two weeks. Shocking news for two shows that hit highs of 6.7 and 4.9 respectively not more than a month and a half ago. I imagine more new lows will be established next week with the return of The Voice even if it is much weaker than last season.
No Maks, no watch.