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Like a reality TV bat out of Hell, Gordon Ramsey returned Tuesday for Season 11 of Hell’s Kitchen (2.2/6). Taking over Fox’s primetime last night, the two-hour cooking competition premiere saw 20 aspiring restaurateurs putting forth their signatures dishes to Ramsey and, in a new twist this season, a live Las Vegas audience. It also saw the show slip 8% from its Season 10 premiere on June 4. However, last night’s Hell’s Kitchen garnered pretty much the same number of viewers with 5.4 million compared to last year’s 5.5 million, and it was the highest-rated show of the night in the adults 18-49 demographic. Fox won the night overall in the key demo, while CBS topped in total viewers with 11.15 million.
As one reality gastronomy series started up, another ended. After eight episodes, the first season of ABC’s The Taste (1.1/3) crowned a winner with Charlie Sheen’s private chef Khristianne Uy taking the top spot. The one-hour finale of the freshman show, which will see a Dancing With The Stars special in its slot next week, dipped 8% from last week to hit a series low. ABC started off the night with Celebrity Wife Swap (1.6/5), which rose 7% from the big drop-off its March 5 show saw from the previous week’s premiere. Falling 8% from last week, the struggling Body Of Proof (1.2/3) ended primetime for the network as it tied a series low.
Following repeats of NCIS (1.6/5) and NCIS: LA (1.9/5), Golden Boy (1.6/5) was the only original on CBS last night. After having previewed on two consecutive Tuesdays with the intention of being housed on Friday nights, the freshman cop drama had its first night in what’s to be its permanent home. Winning the 10 PM time slot in viewers, Golden Boy was even with last week’s Tuesday broadcast but up significantly from the 1.0/3 its March 8 airing received.
After hitting a series low last week, NBC’s Smash (0.9/3) was up 13% from its March 5 show, and that was without an original lead-in. An encore of Betty White’s Off Their Rockers (0.9/3) began the network’s night, and a new Off Their Rockers (1.0/3) followed at 8:30 PM; the latter was down 9% from last week to a new series low. Repeats of Go On (0.8/2) and The New Normal (0.7/2) followed.
The CW had repeats of Hart Of Dixie (0.2/1) and Beauty And The Beast (0.2/1) on Tuesday.
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Unfortunately the revamp killed a good show! I knew it was over when they killed Nic Biship’s
character.
I agree. And the exorcism show from last week was exploitive and a pathetic attempt to increase viewership. I wonder if zombies and vampires are next.
“After hitting a series low last week, Smash (0.9/3) was up 13% from its March 5 show and that was without an original lead-in.”
Haha, now THAT’S how you do spin on horrendous numbers!
I wish NBC would cancel all their junky reality shows except for the Voice and go back to being the classy Upscale New Yorky network. Friends Frasier and Seinfeld all played broad but were smart. Also their colors are too bright and HD in your face. Chill. HBO doesn’t assault u like that, they play it cool like your reading The New Yorker.
If you look at the numbers closely Body Of Proof Doubled its overall lead in audience from The Taste. That almost never happens. It has had a solid steady audience since its return in February rising slightly last week. Expect its numbers to come up next week when Dancing With The Stars returns as its lead in. No other network other then CBS comes close to their number in overall viewership on Tuesday nights not to mention this show does well over seas. I expect to see it on the schedule next season unless ABC wants to fire its largest audience on Tuesday night.
Low ratings across the board should be a clear indicator to the network suits that their mostly formulaic non-scripted/reality programming doesn’t always work. Yes, its cheaper than paying, you know, actual writers, but that doesn’t always mean it makes good business sense.
When scripted shows like Smash or Body of Proof falter, they might be able to mid-course correct them. But when non-scripted/reality shows signs of weakness, there are few alternatives other than cancellation.
FOX overrelies on Gordon Ramsey. This should all air in the summer, not clogging up the broadcast season.
The problem is the continued focus on young demos. The broadcast networks are never going to get it. Young people are not watching TV the same way. Stop targeting them. Go for the viewers and the demos will follow. It’s that simple.
The advertisers follow the viewers. And the agencies will follow the advertisers because they want the business. CBS gets this and believe it or not, most of their shows outperform all of NBC’s shows except “The Voice” in the demo.
Body of Proof.I actually used to enjoy it. That exorcism episode may have been the “jumping the shark” moment. Also,to me Dana & Mark have no chemistry whatsoever. Also,as we all know(whether it is fair or not) total viewers/most-watched doesn’t matter-the demo does. I would be somewhat surprised if BOP was renewed again. I can’t imagine this program coming back next season. To be honest,Dana & Jeri are good actresses,but,the writing is not that great. Both of these wonderful ladies are above the material on Body of Proof & they both deserve better•••much better…
‘That exorcism episode may have been the “jumping the shark” moment. Also,to me Dana & Mark have no chemistry whatsoever’–
Amen! BODY OF PROOF used to be the only show I watched on network TV, despite ABC’s attempts to kill it from day one. The writers expertly blended a teasing whodunit and an emotional human drama within a compact 41 minutes, and the chemistry between the lovely Dana Delany and Nicholas Bishop was palpable. Killing off Bishop was a fatal mistake, especially since he has been replaced by a non-entity. And either the writers have been replaced or ordered to make a once-brilliant series appeal to the lowest common denominator. I hope ABC does cancel the series–so an intelligent cable network can pick it up and restore BOP to its former glory.
EXACTLY. Besides, given how ABC’s new dramas have done this year, it would be an insane move to cancel Body of Proof.
Not to mention that BOP is freaking AWESOME the season. ABC should drop a dime to promote it! Scheesh!
RamsAy! RamsAy! RamsAy!
Too little, too late for SMASH as the damage has already been done. Seriously, these networks really need to come up with better ideas than these idiotic ridiculous reality shows. Just happy that most of them, including Betty White’s doofus program, are all tanking and maybe the networks will wake up and start developing ideas on their own and come up with some better programming options once the fall season commences. FOX will be known as the Ramsey network like CW was the Tyra Banks network at one time.