Only one show last night topped a 1.5 rating.
ABC: An 8PM SHARK TANK only managed a 1.2, but the 9PM season finale zoomed up to a 1.9, easily the highest-rated show of the night (but down a tick from last week). 2d highest: the 1.5 for 20/20, although that was down 0.2 from last week.
CBS: The “season finale” of UNDERCOVER BOSS was a clip show, and viewers knew it: it had only a 1.0, down 0.6 from last week. That wasn’t even as high as the show’s 1.1 9PM rerun, although it beat the 0.9 for 48 HOURS at 10PM.
NBC: A night of news featured a 1.1 for DATELINE (even) and a 1.3 for ROCK CENTER (up 0.1).
FOX: A 2-hour KITCHEN NIGHTMARES rerun was at 0.7.
CW: The fanbase (or viewers desperate for something scripted) showed up for the NIKITA season finale, doubling last week’s terrible rating to 0.4. A SUPERNATURAL rerun was at 0.3.
Tonight is all reruns, except for a special 20/20 on ABC that’s a 2-hour promo for Sunday’s BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS. In latenight, the season finale of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE is hosted by Ben Affleck, with musical guest Kanye West.
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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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