The last Friday of February sweeps was dull for every network.
CBS: After the failure of The Job, CBS rushed UNDERCOVER BOSS back into its 8PM slot, and although Boss outperformed the deceased show, its 1.5 was 0.4 lower than the last time it aired 3 weeks ago (still enough to win the 8PM hour). The season finale of CSI NY had no bump and was merely even at 1.2, and BLUE BLOODS was steady at 1.4, tying for the 10PM lead.
ABC: Both LAST MAN STANDING and MALIBU COUNTRY were down a tick, at 1.3 and 1.1 respectively. SHARK TANK was again the highest rated show of the night, steady at 1.8. 20/20 was even at 1.4, tying with CBS at 10PM.
FOX: KITCHEN NIGHTMARES and TOUCH were both flat, at 1.1 and 0.7.
NBC: Another all-newsmagazine Friday had DATELINE at 1.4 (up 0.1) and ROCK CENTER at 1.0 (down 0.1).
CW: Skipping last week may have been a bad scheduling move for NIKITA, which fell back down 0.2 to a terrible 0.3. Viewers continued to flee from CULT, which crawled to 0.2 for a rerun of its pilot.
Tonight’s line-up is the usual Saturday mix of reruns and debris like AMERICAN NINJA WARRIORS, but in honor of Sunday’s ACADEMY AWARDS, ABC is airing the movie DREAMGIRLS, and CBS has a VANITY FAIR’S HOLLYWOOD special. None of the broadcast networks will try to compete with ABC tomorrow night, although the cable networks with original programming have no such fear.
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