Three weeks into its latest season, All-Star Celebrity Apprentice (1.8/5) had a guest appearance by last season’s winner Arsenio Hall last night. For the second week in a row, fast national ratings have the two-hour Donald Trump-led series even with its previous week’s final numbers among adults 18-49. Things were not so rosy for another show in its third week: ABC’s mob family drama Red Widow (1.0/3) was down 9% from last week’s show, a season low for the freshman drama executive produced by The Twilight Saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg. ABC’s Sunday night began with America’s Funniest Home Videos (1.4/5) followed Once Upon A Time (2.2/6), which dipped 4% from last week’s series-low tie to hit a new low. At 9 PM, Revenge (1.8/4) was down 10% from last week’s midseason return.
NBC started its night with a two-hour Dateline (1.3/4), which was flat with its last one-hour 8-9 PM original March 3.
CBS’ night began as usual with 60 Minutes (1.6/5), which was the most watched show of the night with 10.07 million viewers and was even with last week’s rating. The second-highest-rated show of Sunday in the 18-49 demo, The Amazing Race (2.2/6), dipped 8% from its March 10 show. After that it was The Good Wife (1.5/4), flat with last week, and The Mentalist (1.6/4), down a slight 6% from its March 10 airing. With 9.41 million watching, CBS won the night in total viewers and the demo.
Fox’s animation block kicked off with a Bob’s Burgers (0.7/2) encore followed by a new The Cleveland Show (1.2/4), which tumbled 25% down from its last original March 3 in that slot. Then it was a new The Simpsons (2.1/6), which slipped 5% from last week, and another new Cleveland Show (1.8/5), which was flat with its March 10 show. The highest-rated show among 18-49s for a second week in a row, Family Guy (2.3/6) was down 15% from last week. A new Bob’s Burgers (1.6/4) fell 11% from its March 10 airing.
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“Once” has become too convoluted, ” Revenge” too. So when you have to try and watch yet another show with lots of story lines every which way, it just becomes too much.
They should put one of them, probably “Red”,” on another night.
You said it. That is exactly the reason I am not watching RED. After an hour of REVENGE, my brain hurts too much.
Wow. Poor babies, you actually have to think while trying to numb your brain. Suggestion: Don’t watch anything on PBS. Your head might actually explode.
I watched OUAT last night and I thought it was one of the best episodes I have ever seen. I thought the story was brilliantly pieced together. I like how they spin off of the original fairy tales into new ideas and directions. It’s a shame that ratings don’t reflect quality. OUAT truely deserved a high rating for that episode. I hope they can keep the quality up and win back their viewers. It’s not that deep of a show to get back into. I miss episodes periodically and still manage to get back into it. ABC’s biggest Sunday problem will always be their misguided programming focus. First of all,there’s no logic to their way of programming or scheduling. Their Sunday night schedule has been a hodgepodge collection of titles since Paul Lee took over. He doesn’t ever order the right pieces to connect their schedules cohesively. Secondly, everything he brings to the schedule is a repeat of previous failures. I only watched one episode of Red Widow because it felt like I was watching MISSING all over again: Dad/husband gets murdered within first few minutes of show and wife must now take on the dual role of mom and dad. With NFL games, The Walking Dead and other strong cable programs all on Sunday, ABC won’t be able to survive being the network offering up fluffy material that is looked upon as unimportant,and lightweight and thus passed over by women. But even the other big 4 networks have this problem now. I don’t think viewers are turning away from their tv viewing as much as they are being chased away by the poor decisions of the execs running the big 4 networks. The Walking Dead and The BIBLE are proof that families, women, and men, especially in the target demo, are still watching tv on Sunday in large numbers when something interesting is on.
“Once” dipped in quality and frankly the competition Sunday @ 9 is insane right now (The Bible, Walking Dead).
Oh wait, Once is on at 8:00 haha nevermind.
The MacFarlane express is coming to the end of the line. I cannot imaging Fox renewing “Cleveland”. What started out as an unfunny spinoff, has become painful to watch.
Radha Mitchell is the reason I watched Red Widow instead of HBO or Showtime last night.
The various storylines are the reasons that I actually watch OUAT & Revenge. It is refreshing to have your brainpower exercised once in awhile. Sometimes,it’s hard to keep track of everything,but,so what-both programs are fun to watch ESPECIALLY REVENGE! Most of the characters on Revenge are so fuckin’ nasty-I love it. I love how everyone has their own agenda & is only out for themselves.In the middle of all this-Emily exacting her own Revenge on people is great. Revenge reminds me of the old-time nasty primetime soaps (Dynasty,etc.) of long ago. Revenge is nasty,delicious fun-I LOVE IT!!!
Revenge has actually returned to the kind of storytelling of the first season.
@Jake – about time! Revenge first season is classic.
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As for OUAT — the last three episodes (little Snow, young Cora, lonely Regina) were excellent. Something must be happening behind the scenes on that show and whatever it is – keep up the good work. I don’t even care what happens with Charming, Henry, Emma or Henry’s father – they are kind of dull. IMHO, the show excels when the focus is on some aspect of Mr. Gold, Regina and/or Cora. (avoiding spoilers, may I suggest a little magic to undo what happened recently?
I hope Revenge lives on for at least another three seasons. But I think they’re going to be forced to hire additional writers. I can already tell that the current writer’s imaginations are stretched to their limits when I saw the new step-brother from another mother arrive out of nowhere. I love all the current characters. Hopefully they can all live on without killing each other.
I thought he was a foster brother?
He was just a foster brother. The complainer wasn’t paying any attention
He was her FOSTER brother, why the hell do people not get that.
I still enjoy revenge but I caught the end of once waiting for revenge to start and that was painful.
Lol sure a little magic to fix all the writers mistakes. But when u hire someone who worked on bionic woman and dullhouse there’s only so much magic you can use.
I LOVE RED WIDOW! Super smart and an amazing cast. Its like a cable show on prime time. People should give it a more of a chance
Revenge is a great show..im a huge fan!
.I love that its getting back to basics, and not having a million other weak storylines..
If abc wouldn’t pull the show every other week, they wouldnt be getting beat up on the ratings..every week..its musical chairs of programming..
J G
this whole night is just falling apart.
CBS needs to move “The Good Wife” to another night.
Revenge needs to move to another night but Red Widow might be gone real soon…a lot of these mid-season shows are tanking badly this year on most of these networks. Watch Donald Dump say yet again his show is #1 on all fronts.
3rd week of Red Widow was so good. It will definitely get renewed for a 2nd season because words going to get around and ratings will go up. Celebrity apprentice is really boring now and Donald Trump is disgusting.
Red Widow is such a great show well written with great actors. I agree putting it on another night would make a lot of sense it’s worth getting into but on such a busy night it’s lost. The Good Wife still great too. Watch Red Widow you’ll love it!
I absolutely luv Red Widow. It has twists and turns and surprises. Such great writing that I wanted to call the show to let them know they are doing a great job! I am praying they do not cancel this show. It is terrific!
Adrienne Bellamy
I love Red Widow. Once Upon A Time did get bad.
I love red widow i think its one of the best.shows out there. I do agree it comes on a bit.late but.i always catch it.on abc.com the following day if i miss it. Im sure ratings were down because noone new when a new episode would air. Bring.a season.2!!!!
Dont people have dvr? If shows are “too fluffy” for sunday you can watch these shows at your convenience. Most providers have on demand where you can catch up on episodes whenerver you want. I see so many commercials for watching your favorite shows on demand, i dont understand why people cant keep up. Then the shows get canceled all together because people complain. I cant express how much this annoys me. Just an example abc zero hour aired for only 3 episodes before it was pulled off. Yes you had to pay attention to details and plots but i thought that was the attention grabbing quality. Im so disappointed about the cancellation schedule!
I agree I love RED, I hope it doesn’t end and goes on a while longer. Revenge is actually my favorite series! Its so intence! OUAT is also awesome. Love them all
I hate how they pulled zero, it was so good! I agree with DVR that’s what I have and how I keep up.