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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘The Bachelor’ Ends Up, ‘Biggest Loser’ & ‘Rules Of Engagement’ Hit New Lows, ‘Following’ Dips

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday March 12, 2013 @ 8:53am PDTTags: The Bachelor, The Biggest Loser, The Following, TV Ratings

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. READ MORE »

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ABC’s ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Adds ‘The Bachelor’ Star To Cast

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 12, 2013 @ 7:08am PDTTags: ABC, Dancing With The Stars, Sean Lowe, The Bachelor
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ABC brass are trying hard to stem Dancing With The Stars‘ ratings decline. Following a solid ratings run for the just concluded cycle of The Bachelor, especially in the younger demos, the … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: Fox’s ‘The Following’ Keeps Steady, Tops Slow Monday

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 5, 2013 @ 9:32am PSTTags: The Bachelor, The Following, TV Ratings
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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 … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ’2 Broke Girls’, ‘Mike & Molly’ & ‘Rules Of Engagement’ Hit Lows, ‘Bones’ & ’90210′ Up

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday February 26, 2013 @ 9:23am PSTTags: 2 Broke Girls, The Bachelor, The Biggest Loser, The Following, TV Ratings

The Oscars are done, awards season is over and it is back to normal for the television schedule. Monday’s haven’t been much affected but there some shifts last night – at least ratingswise. How I Met Your Mother (3.4/10) started the night for CBS. The top show among the 18-49 demo last night for the first time this season, the comedy was flat with last week’s show. Following Mother, Rules of Engagement (2.6/7) was down 10% from its February 19 show while 2 Broke Girls slipped 9%. That was a season low for the former and a matching series low for the latter. Mike & Molly (2.7/7) took a southward turn as well. Falling 16% from last week, the comedy also hit a season low. CBS ended the night with a Hawaii Five-O (1.4/4) encore.

For ABC and NBC on a Monday, it was head-to-head reality. It was down to the final two contestants on last night’s two-hour The Bachelor (2.9/8).  Heading towards its 17th season finale on March 11, the ABC reality series dipped a slight 3% from last week’s show. Also on from 8 PM to 10 PM, NBC’s two-hour The Biggest Loser (2.1/6) on Monday saw the six remaining contestants thrown into a “Face Your Fears” contest. One of the two ratings jewels (along with The Office) in NBC’s current tarnished crown, last night’s Biggest Loser stayed up from its Season 14 low of two weeks ago to remain even with its February 19 show. For the second Monday in a row, ABC won the night in both total viewers (9.643 million) and among Adults 18-49.
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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘The Bachelor’ Hits Season High, ‘The Following’ & ‘Biggest Loser’ Up, ‘The Carrie Diaries’ Down

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday February 19, 2013 @ 9:02am PSTTags: The Bachelor, The Following, TV Ratings

Yesterday was Presidents Day but pretty much business as usual on TV. Monday night’s two-hour The Bachelor (3.0/8) saw hometown visits to Houston, Seattle, Fort Leonard Wood and LA with one bachelorette sent home without a rose. It also saw the dating reality show up 11% from last week, topping the February 11 airing’s season high. Castle (2.2/6) followed and rose 10% from last week, beating CBS’ Hawaii Five-O in the 10 PM time slot. That ties a season high for the crime drama, matching its October 29 and October 8 numbers. Fox’s 9 PM freshman drama The Following (2.8/7) was up 11% from last week’s season low. The Kevin Bacon-starring show also was up 6% in total viewers, to 8.3 million from 7.8 million. The Following’s lead-in, Bones (2.1/6), dipped a bit from last week, down 5% from February 11. NBC’s The Biggest Loser (2.1/5) put on a few ratings pounds to rise 5% from last week’s season low. At 10 PM, Deception (1.2/3) was flat with last week’s show.

With 9.376 million watching, ABC won the night in total viewers in a close race over CBS’ 9.234 million. The two networks tied in adults 18-49.
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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘The Following’ & ‘Biggest Loser’ Hit Lows, ‘Bachelor’ Hits Season High, ‘Deception’ & ‘Castle’ Rise

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday February 12, 2013 @ 9:14am PSTTags: How I Met Your Mother, The Bachelor, The Biggest Loser, The Following, TV Ratings

On a night where broadcast levels were down, it was partially a tale of two reality shows on TV on Monday. ABC kicked off primetime with a two-hour The Bachelor (2.7/7). After hitting a near season-low last week, the series rose 13% from its February 4 show to a season high. The same could not be said of NBC’s The Biggest Loser (2.0/5). Also two hours last night, the weight-loss show dipped 5% for a season low. Biggest Loser wasn’t the only show to hit a new low: Fox freshman The Following (2.4/6) was down 17% from last week to hit a series low. The Following’s lead-in, Bones was down too, slipping 8% from its February 4 episode. With 9.588 million watching, CBS won the night in viewers and the adults 18-49 demo. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Bones’ Returns Up; CBS Comedies Hit Season Highs

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday January 15, 2013 @ 9:13am PSTTags: Bones, The Bachelor, The Carrie Diaries, TV Ratings

Fox’s Bones returned from its winter break with back-to-back episodes last night. In both its 8 PM (2.1/6) and 9 PM (2.1/5) airings, the forensically inclined drama, which was recently renewed for a ninth season, was up 11% from its last original  December 3. With 8.1 million watching its 8 PM broadcast, Bones also pulled in its biggest audience of the season so far for Fox.

On CBS, a slew of comedies returned from their winter breaks to give the network its best Monday of the season. How I Met Your Mother (3.8/10) started the night up 12% from its last original  December 17, hitting season highs in viewership (10.42 million) and in the adults 18-49 demo. A repeat of The Big Bang Theory (3.6/9) followed. With 11.43 million viewers, the encore was the night’s most-watched sho. 2 Broke Girls (4.1/10) was up 17% from its last original last month, matching its season-to-date demo high and also hitting a viewership season high (12.20 million., With 11.52 million viewers, Mike & Molly (3.5/9) hit a season viewership high as well, rising 6% from its last original December 17. Closing out the night for CBS, Hawaii Five-0 (2.4/6) was even with its last original December 17. With 10.735 million watching, CBS won the night in viewers and the demo.

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Bachelor’ Premiere Dips, ‘Deception’ Debut Tops Time Slot, ‘Castle’ Up

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 9:08am PSTTags: Castle, Deception, The Bachelor, The Biggest Loser, The Mob Doctor, TV Ratings

The Bachelor (2.3/5) was back for its 17th season last night with a two-hour premiere on ABC. Starring former Bachelorette suitor Sean Lowe, the search for love reality series dipped 4% from its season 16 … Read More »

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‘Bachelor’ & ‘Bachelorette’ Racial Discrimination Suit Dismissed

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday October 15, 2012 @ 3:58pm PDTTags: ABC, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Warner Bros

The class action lawsuit against The Bachelor and The Bachelorette was dismissed today. In a 23-page ruling (read it here), Judge Aleta Trauger in a Tennessee district court granted the motion to dismiss the racial … Read More »

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‘Bachelor’ Accountant Accused Of Embezzlement

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 11, 2012 @ 6:06pm PDTTags: The Bachelor, The Bachelorette

The production company behind The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and other TV shows filed suit today in Los Angeles Superior Court against former lead production accountant Iain Anderson. (Read the lawsuit here) AND Syndicated Productions accuses Anderson, who is listed as residing in Ventura County, and unspecified co-defendants of artificially … Read More »

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ABC Invokes First Amendment In ‘Bachelor’ Racism Lawsuit

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 10:48am PDTTags: ABC, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette

The Bachelor LawsuitABC says allegations that The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are racist are “demonstrably false and unsupportable.” In a motion filed yesterday (read it here) seeking dismissal of the April 18 lawsuit against the shows, their producers and the network, ABC said the lawsuit “violates the First Amendment, which protects Defendants’ creative choices concerning the content — including the casting — of the television series that they produce and broadcast to the public.” The network goes on to cite legal precedent to say “it is well settled that ‘[e]ntertainment, as well as political and ideological speech, is protected’ fully by the First Amendment.” Back in April, football players Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson filed a class-action lawsuit against the reality shows for racial discrimination. The suit stated that over the course of both series a person of color has never been the finalist or the one picking their potential mate on the shows. The duo, both African-Americans who unsuccessfully auditioned to be on The Bachelor, named ABC, Bachelor executive producer and Bachelorette creator Michael Fleiss, Warner Horizon Television, Next Entertainment, and NZK Productions as defendants. Read More »

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UPDATE: ABC Renews ‘Shark Tank’, ‘Dancing With The Stars’ & ‘The Bachelor’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 10, 2012 @ 7:05pm PDTTags: ABC, Big Deals TV, Dancing With The Stars, Shark Tank, The Bachelor
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UPDATE 7:20 PM: The Bachelor has just been been renewed too, joining Shark Tank and Dancing With the Stars.

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ABC’s ‘The Bachelor’ & ‘The Bachelorette’ Sued For Racial Discrimination

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday April 18, 2012 @ 11:48am PDTTags: ABC, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette

UPDATE: Warner Horizon, which produces The Bachelor franchise, issued a statement in response to the lawsuit.

This complaint is baseless and without merit. In fact, we have had various participants of color throughout the series’ history, and the producers have been consistently — and publicly — vocal about seeking diverse candidates

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘The Bachelor’ Hits Finale Low Amidst Declines And Reruns

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 13, 2012 @ 9:37am PDTTags: Ratings, Smash, The Bachelor, The Voice
Nellie Andreeva

The Bachelor Ratings ABCThere was a slew of ratings declines on the second night of daylight savings time. The clock change was probably at least partially responsible for The Voice‘s (5.1/14) 18% ratings drop from last week to a … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Alcatraz’ Slips, ‘Rock Center’ Drops, ‘Gossip Girl’ & ‘Dixie’ Rise

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 31, 2012 @ 9:11am PSTTags: Alcatraz, House, Rock Center With Brian Williams, The Bachelor
Nellie Andreeva

It was another case of “when the cat’s away…” last night as Fox and ABC battled it out last night while CBS’ formidable Monday lineup was once again in repeats. But CBS wasn’t completely out — a repeat of Two … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘House’ And ‘The Bachelor’ Rise, ‘Alcatraz’ Drops In Week 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 24, 2012 @ 9:50am PSTTags: Alcatraz, House, Rock Center With Brian Williams, The Bachelor
Nellie Andreeva

House‘s ratings upswing couldn’t have come at a better time. As conversations between Fox and Universal Television over the future of the veteran medical drama continue, House last night came back strong from a two-month hiatus. Returning to its old … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘The Bachelor’ Down In Return, ‘Celebrity Wife Swap’ OK In Preview

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 3, 2012 @ 9:58am PSTTags: 2 Broke Girls, Celebrity Wife Swap, The Bachelor
Nellie Andreeva

The broadcast lights started to turn on last night with three out of five English-language networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — airing all-original lineups. ABC’s The Bachelor opened its new cycle with a 2.4/6 in adults 18-49 and 7.7 … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘The Bachelor’ Finale Down As Most Other Shows Hit Lows

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 9:37am PDTTags: ABC, CBS, Chuck, Fox, Harry's law, House, Mad Love, The Bachelor, The Chicago Code, The Event, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

ABC dominated the ratings last night with the two-hour season finale of The Bachelor (4.5/12, 13.8 million viewers) and The Bachelor: After the Final Rose special (4.7/12, 13.9 million). Both were down from last spring, the finale by 15% in … Read More »

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Ratings Rat Race: ‘Men’ Tops, ‘Mike & Molly’ Pops, ‘Mad Love’ Slow, ‘Chicago Code’ Down

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 15, 2011 @ 9:22am PSTTags: ABC Ratings, Castle, CBS Ratings, Chuck, Fox Ratings, Harry's law, Mad Love, Mike & Molly, NBC Ratings, Ratings Rat Race, Rules of Engagement, The Bachelor, The Cape, The Chicago Code, TV, TV Ratings, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Most programs were down last night, as overall TV viewership was impacted by the Valentine’s Day holiday. (Adult 18-49 TV usage was off by 6% from last week.) Most affected was Fox, which had gotten a post-Super Bowl boost last … Read More »

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