THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/26/13

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There was no curtain call for Smash.
 

NBC:  SMASH‘s 2-hour exit was an ignominious one.  Although its 0.5 was up 0.1 from its last Saturday airing, it was very nearly the lowest-rated show on a low-rated holiday weekend night, edged out only by a Good Wife rerun on CBS.  Smash barely managed to be even with the rerun of The Voice that preceded it, and it lowered NBC’s rating 35% from last year’s Memorial Day Eve.  (We’ll find out later today or tomorrow if it was also beaten by HBO’s somewhat similarly-skewing Behind the Candelabra.)

FOX:  The Sunday before Memorial Day was very similar to last year.  The night was dominated by NASCAR Coca-Cola 600, which averaged a 1.8 rating in the fast nationals with adults 18-49.  However, we are estimating the rating will go up to a 2.1 in the official nationals when viewing in the Western US is properly counted for this live telecast (matching last year’s rating).

CBS:  Reruns, none over a 0.6.

ABC:  Reruns, led by a 0.8 for WIPEOUT.

ABC and NBC have fresh programming tonight, and FOX continues burning off episodes of THE GOODWIN GAMES.  On cable, LONGMIRE has its season debut on A&E, and Lifetime debuts RING OF FIRE, a bio of June Carter Cash starring Jewel.