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Sean Lowe has chosen his bride-to-be and America seems to approve. Watched by 9.99 million viewers as Lowe picked Catherine Giudici, the two-hour Season 17 finale of ABC’s The Bachelor (3.3/9) last night was up 14% from last year’s season ender. (It is worth noting that The Bachelor Season 16 finale went head to head with NBC’s The Voice last March.) Last night’s finale was up 18% from The Bachelor’s two-hour March 4 show. The Bachelor: After The Final Rose (3.8/10) was also up double digits. With 11.01 million total viewers, the post-series special rose 13% from last year. After debuting on January 7 with its lowest-rated season premiere to date, the reality series ended up having a solid season this year, up in viewership and all key demographics. The Bachelor last night actually went from 8-10:07 PM, with After The Final Rose running from 10:07-11 PM, so expect greater than usual adjustment in the final numbers later today. Hitting its highest-rated Monday since September 19, 2011, ABC won the night in total viewers and the adults 18-49 demographic.
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NBC aired a two-hour episode of The Biggest Loser (1.9/5) on Tuesday, with the show falling 14% from last week a season low. It wasn’t all downer news for the network: Following Loser was Deception (1.2/3), and the freshman soap drama bopped up 9% from its March 4 show.
Fox started the night with a Bones
(1.2/4) repeat. Without the benefit of a Bones original lead-in, The Following (2.6/7) slipped 7% from last week’s broadcast.
CBS was all repeats except for a new Rules Of Engagement (2.0/6). Falling for the second week in a row without an original How I Met Your Mother as a lead-in, the show was down 9% to hit a season low.
The CW had new episodes of The Carrie Diaries (0.4/1) and the now-cancelled 90210 (0.2/1). The former was even with last week while the latter slid a tenth from last week.
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If CBS is going to test the waters with a two-hour comedy block on Thursdays as well as Mondays next year, I don’t see how they can do this without bringing back Rules Of Engagement (even as a potential stand-in for a failed new show) – but with these ratings, and with half the cast attached to other pilots, I don’t see how that’s feasible. CBS should stick to what they’ve got, even if it means only picking up a couple of shows (or cancelling Mike & Molly too… it’s not like Melissa McCarthy hasn’t got a movie career to rely on)
The Following keeps dipping because it too often wallows in its own bloody violence. I feel like people must be turning off to the extraneous (and unnecessary) shots of people being stabbed and shot and then bleeding to death, not to mention the torturous death scenes. The plot is intriguing and quite creepy and Kevin Bacon is great but the violence quotient overwhelms the story. My husband won’t even watch it anymore and he is a fan of thrillers. Fox needs to remember that their network is not Showtime or HBO, where people pay to watch such gore. This is free network television that is available to everyone. The violence on this show sets a bad precedent. I hope next season, it is toned down considerably or I will be one of its former fans.
It’s my fault… the first time this season I watch an episode of Biggest Loser. And it tanks.
Rules of Engagement, 2.0 18-49 and 7 million total viewers and
Mike & Molly 1.6/ 6 million viewers. If either were to leave CBS, NBC should pick them up. Mike & Molly not likely, but Rules should definitely be a consideration for NBC.
Despite dropping those are solid numbers for The Following and Rules of Engagement given that their lead-ins were repeats. The Bachelor dominated as expected given the huge popularity of this season’s “chosen one.” It is intriguing that this is the only reality show on the big 4 networks that is actually up over last year, steadily growing over the course of the season. If he has “the following” that previous Bachelor contestants have had, he will bring an additional huge number of viewers to the already huge DWTS audience and the best part of that for ABC is that they will likely be in the 18-49 demo area. Wow, I wonder if DWTS will top or come close to 20 million for its opener. Dominic, you know better than any of us, but I’m thinking DWTS, spring of 2012, opened with 17+ million viewers??? Regardless, it will be interesting to see if he is as good of a dancer as the Texas pilot Bachelor from a few years ago.