Without The Voice to support it, Smash started its second season with a ratings trainwreck to match the creative disaster that is the show. Read Mitch Salem’s review here.
Half-hour ratings for network television last night are shown below. Most notably, Smash started at 1.3 rating with adults 18-49 (already down from its very modest lead-in, Betty White’s 2nd Annual 90th Birthday — wow, the bloom is off that rose). But the audience just kept dropping, ending at an ignominious 1.0 at 10:30 pm, making CBS’s struggling Las Vegas look like a runaway hit. NBC finished fourth for the night, confirming it is one long walk in the desert for the Peacock until The Voice returns in late March.
The Taste rebounded a bit on ABC. It’s three-week track: 2.1 premiere, 1.6 last week, preliminary 1.8 last night. Other than that, pretty standard night on CBS, FOX and CW.
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