NETWORK UPDATE: MOTIVE crept up 0.1 to 0.8.
WEDNESDAY CABLE: The fall of DUCK DYNASTY (A&E) hasn’t reached bottom, as the show crumbled another 0.3 to 1.2, below FAMILY GUY and BIG BANG THEORY reruns. Its companion show BIG SMO fell 0.1 to 0.7. CATFISH (MTV) dropped 0.1 to 0.9. On USA, SUITS and GRACELAND were steady at 0.8/0.5. DUAL SURVIVAL (Discovery) had just enough extra hundredths to round up to 0.7. The final season of WILFRED (FXX) kept it squarely as a cult show (and not a cult “hit,” either), with 0.12/0.11 for its 2 half-hours. As detailed in today’s WORLD CUP SKEDBALL, ESPN’s doubleheader of Ecuador vs France and Argentina vs. Nigeria (0.9/0.8) were far above ESPN2’s duo of Iran vs. Bosnia and Switzerland vs. Honduras (0.12/0.15). Another sports event with some punch was ESPN’s coverage of the COLLEGE WORLD SERIES at 0.7.
A reliable summer hit returned last night.
CBS: The BIG BROTHER season premiere was by far the highest rated show of the night at 2.3, which was up 0.1 from last summer’s premiere. That boosted the CRIMINAL MINDS rerun that followed to 1.3, up 0.3 from last week’s rerun.
NBC: The second AMERICA’S GOT TALENT rerun in as many nights (and third telecast in 4 nights) finally found viewers exhausted with the show and was at 1.3, down 0.6 from Tuesday’s rerun. That didn’t give much of a lead-in to the premiere of TAXI BROOKLYN, which for its part showed little promise at 1.0, although that was enough to win the hour.
FOX: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE fell 0.3 to 1.4 in the face of the new competition from CBS.
ABC: The network’s lowest-rated show of the night was its only original, MOTIVE, which fell 0.3 to a new low 0.7. The highest rating came from a MODERN FAMILY rerun at 1.2.
CW: Reruns at 0.2/0.2.
Tonight, NY MED makes its season debut on ABC, and the BIG BROTHER Thursday installment premieres.
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