Good news for ABC’s sitcoms.
ABC: LAST MAN STANDING and MALIBU COUNTRY, newly gifted with 5-episode backorders, justified their continued life by rising to 1.6/1.5, a tick or two up from recent weeks. A rerun SHARK TANK and a new 20/20 won their hours with 1.6 and 1.7, respectively.
CBS: UNDERCOVER BOSS held steady at 1.8, winning the 8PM hour and providing the highest rating of the night. CSI NY and BLUE BLOODS both had 1.5s, which was a slight increase for CSI and a hold for Bloods.
NBC: 0.9 and 0.6 reruns in the night’s first 2 hours didn’t help DEADLINE, in third place at 10PM with 1.1 and down a bit for the week.
FOX: The PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME had an unimpressive 1.1 in early numbers, although since by definition the game featured 2 west coast teams, that rating may come up significantly when final figures are in.
CW: NIKITA responded well to its move to 8PM, with a season high 0.4. The ARROW rerun that followed did a 0.3.
Tonight, the last Saturday night pre-bowl college football games air on ABC and FOX, while NBC digs out the season’s first run of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and CBS continues to burn off episodes of MADE IN JERSEY.
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