>ABC premiered the “comedy” Work It, and America did not turn out for it.  CBS went back to basics and brought back its regular Tuesday schedule (all in originals), winning the night unlike the same night last year, when it let Paula Abdul mess up its powerhouse Tuesday schedule.  NBC also went with originals of […]

>Nobody wanted to watch TV last night. ABC: The premiere of Shonda Rhimes’ SCANDAL tied PRIVATE PRACTICE‘s 2.1 season low, a very unencouraging start. This followed new series lows for GREY’S ANATOMY and MISSING (2.8 and 1.4, respectively), making for a night of failure. FOX: AMERICAN IDOL fell to a series low 3.8, but even […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  The primetime NFL game adjusted to 6.1, half a point above last year’s game.  In other football-related adjustments, the YOUNG SHELDON rerun dropped to 2.2, the rerun of THE UNICORN was at 1.2, and the EVIL rerun ended up at 0.4.  In addition, the WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY special lost […]

>The metered-market overnights, the first ratings available each day, show that NBC’s Awake finished in second place in the 10 pm hour to the repeat episode of The Mentalist on CBS.  Remember that the overnights reflect viewing in 56 of the largest television markets only (about half of the country), and the ratings and shares […]

Thanks to the State of the Union Address, there was virtually no original programming on the broadcast networks last night. ABC:  You’d think things were set up perfectly for THE TASTE to overperform, with nothing but reruns against it in the pre-speech 8PM slot, but it only managed to tie CBS for the hour, falling […]

  Daylight Savings Time only made ABC’s Sunday troubles worse. ABC:  It’s getting harder to label ONCE UPON A TIME as a “hit,” with last night’s episode tying its series-low 2.2 and the numbers not much higher than that over the past 6 weeks.  Last night was down 0.7 from the same Sunday last year.  REVENGE fell below […]

>CBS Monday had a very solid night last night and made great gains over the same night last year, thanks to an entire schedule that is working top to bottom.  NBC is a 1.4 in the fast nationals, up one tenth from the last two Mondays but still down two ticks from this night last […]

>The chart below displays the minute by minute Nielsen ratings for the series debut of Smash Monday at 10 pm on NBC.  The news is awful for the first 20 minutes or so, but then the premiere episode stabilized in the ratings for the last 40 minutes. NBC started the show at 10:00, running seamlessly […]