PARKS & RECREATION’s fans showed up for the beginning of the end.
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2).
Ratings analysis and comparisons follow the chart.
NBC: The first two of the final PARKS & RECREATION episodes were both at 1.5, not huge numbers, but better than any other comedy on NBC has been doing this season (and up from the show’s premiere last season). By comparison, MARRY ME and ABOUT A BOY were dismal at 0.7 (down 0.1 from last week to a new series low) and 0.9 (up 0.1). CHICAGO FIRE fell 0.2 to a season low 1.5.
ABC: Despite a solid 1.8 lead-in from a special SHARK TANK, AGENT CARTER dropped 0.4 from last week’s premiere to a shaky 1.5, falling to 1.4 in its 2d half-hour. FOREVER fell 0.1 to tie its series low 1.0.
CBS: NCIS was steady at 2.8, but NCIS: NEW ORLEANS lost 0.3 to 2.2. PERSON OF INTEREST (which rather daringly followed a shocking plot development last week with an episode that barely featured any of the series regulars until the halfway point) was down a tick to 1.6, still enough in current numbers to give it the 10PM hour.
FOX: MASTERCHEF JR and NEW GIRL were both down 0.1 to 1.7 and 1.4, while THE MINDY PROJECT gained 0.1 to 1.1.
CW: Still in reruns at 0.4/0.3.
Aside from CW, the networks are virtually all-new tonight, and all eyes will be on the 2d episode of FOX’s EMPIRE, to see whether it was a flash in the pan or the real thing. Cable’s new arrival is the comedy MAN SEEKING WOMAN on FXX, which follows the season premiere of IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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