NBC: The season finale of GRIMM was the night’s highest rated show, with a 1.6 that was up 0.4 from last week and marked its highest-rated episode in months. (Imagine if the show were actually good!) It didn’t lift the rest of the evening, though: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? was up, and DATELINE was down, only 0.1 each.
CW: No one was too excited about these season finales. NIKITA was even at its remind-me-how-this-got-renewed 0.4, and SUPERNATURAL was down a bit to 0.6.
ABC: Even though SHARK TANK (season finale), PRIMETIME and 20/20 were all down for the night (to 1.5 and twin 1.2s, respectively), Shark and 20/20 won their hours.
CBS: The magic number for reruns last night was 0.8, across the board numbers for UNDERCOVER BOSS, CSI NY and BLUE BLOODS.
FOX: A rerun of KITCHEN NIGHTMARES scored a–Marshall and Lily’s new son’s middle name–0.8.
Tonight’s main event comes after primetime: SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE‘s season finale with host/musical guest Mick Jagger and a slew of other guest musicians. (Look for our review late tonight.) Before that, FOX airs a Red Sox/Phillies baseball game, ABC has the theatrical Spider-Man 3 (why not hold that until closer to release of the new Spidey in July?), NBC preempts its The Firm burn-off for an AMERICA’S GOT TALENT rerun, and reruns on CBS. On Sunday, NBC mercifully ends CELEBRITY APPRENTICE for the season, FOX’s animations have their last outing till Fall (including a 1-hour FAMILY GUY), CBS airs a Tom Selleck TV-movie and ABC has the BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS.
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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