Not a good night to be a Muppet.
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.
ABC: The rebooted return of THE MUPPETS was a disaster, dropping 0.3 from its last airing in December (which was itself a series low) to a 0.8 that was even worse than it looked, because lead-in FRESH OFF THE BOAT returned from its own hiatus up 0.2 to 1.4. AGENT CARTER slipped 0.1 to 0.8, and WHAT WOULD YOU DO? held at 0.7.
FOX: NEW GIRL doesn’t seem to be suffering from the temporary absence of star Zoey Deschanel, up 0.2 to 1.4. GRANDFATHERED was up 0.1 to 1.0, and BROOKLYN NINE-NINE was steady at the same number, but THE GRINDER fell 0.1 to a new low 0.6, and it’s hard to see how that show can survive.
NBC: HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT and CHICAGO MED were each down 0.1 to 1.1 and 1.6, while CHICAGO FIRE was steady at 1.8.
CW: THE FLASH held at 1.4, then IZOMBIE was only able to tie last week’s rerun of the LEGENDS OF TOMORROW pilot at 0.6.
CBS: This year’s 2-hour SUPER BOWL’S GREATEST COMMERCIALS special was down 0.1 from last year’s edition to 2.0, but in 2015 it aired as a 1-hour Monday show.
ABC begins one of the more unusual offerings of February sweeps tonight, a 4-hour MADOFF miniseries that airs over 2 nights with Richard Dreyfuss as its biggest name.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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