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Don’t give up on Fringe just yet.
FOX: Maybe all the fans really were at The Hunger Games last week. FRINGE had a huge rebound to 1.2 last night, which still put it in 3d place for the hour (this is Fringe, after all), but gave it a welcome tie with the already-renewed Grimm on NBC. Fringe also held 100% of its lead-in from the season finale of KITCHEN NIGHTMARES.
NBC: You know how that tie at 9PM was great news for FOX and Fringe? Less good for NBC and GRIMM. For Grimm, 1.2 was a series low, down 0.3 from its last new episode. (A little bit of a shame, as it was an above-average episode that actually had personal stakes for some of the characters.) Grimm wasn’t helped by a lousy 0.8 lead-in from WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE at 8PM. DATELINE was in 3rd place at 10PM.
ABC: A lotto-boosted 20/20 was the highest-rated show of the night, up a tremendous 0.5 from last week to 2.1. That almost–but not quite–made up for the 1.2 earned by a SHARK TANK repeat at 8PM, and a slightly-down (to 1.5) PRIMETIME at 9.
CBS: Back from 2 weeks of NCAA Tournament coverage, CBS won the night, although none too impressively. Both UNDERCOVER BOSS and CSI NY were down from their last new episodes (to 1.8 and 1.6, respectively, and while BLUE BLOODS held steady at 1.6, it was beaten soundly by 20/20.
CW: NIKITA picked a bad time to tie its season low 0.4, as new episodes dwindle and the show won’t return until April 20. SUPERNATURAL inched up to 0.7.
Tonight will be dominated by CBS and its FINAL FOUR coverage. NBC debuts a reality contest show called ESCAPE ROUTES, while FOX, having dumped the remaining episodes of Q’VIVA to late-night, will air COPS and BONES reruns. On Sunday, CBS has the ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS and NBC airs a 3-hour (kill me now) CELEBRITY APPRENTICE, against new regular episodes on ABC and (except for THE SIMPSONS) FOX. As usual on Sunday nights, though, the real action is on cable, where HBO has the season premiere of GAME OF THRONES and AMC dares to bring back THE KILLING after its roundly-hated Season 1 finale..
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