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A bad night at the Eye.
CBS: It’s lucky for CBS that one of its May Sweeps Sundays will be filled by the Survivor season finale, because the regular line-up is falling apart. For no clear reason, the season’s penultimate AMAZING RACE took a 0.4 hit from last week, tying its season low 2.2. That didn’t help the season finale of THE GOOD WIFE (see our review here), nor did the return of Desperate Housewives on ABC–Wife must be glad it’s got its renewal in hand as it fell to 1.7, also tying a season low. To end the night, NYC 22 collapsed completely, with a new-low 1.2. ABC: DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES returned for the first of its final 3 episodes, with a 2.5 that was essentially even (down a meaningless 0.1) with the numbers it was doing before its hiatus. ONCE UPON A TIME, with a strong episode that finally explained who the town’s mysterious stranger really was, was also slightly down but in the range of recent episodes. The Housewives return and the failure of NYC 22 helped GCB, up 0.4 to a still not-great 1.9.
FOX: THE SIMPSONS, BOB’S BURGERS and FAMILY GUY were all steady or up from recent episodes, but THE CLEVELAND SHOW dipped at 9:30PM, losing almost a full ratings point from its Family Guy lead-in. (In contrast, Bob’s Burgers only fell 0.4 from The Simpsons).
NBC: From 7-9PM, DATELINE and HARRY’S LAW were both under a 1, then CELEBRITY APPRENTICE was barely above its season low with a 1.9.
Everything is new tonight for the first Monday of Sweeps, and SMASHWatch is concerned about HAWAII 5-0, which is starting a much-hyped crossover event with NCIS LA that may cause some pain.
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