As expected, football adjustments in Boston and Houston lowered ABC’s and CBS’s numbers for the night, which are reflected below. Also, GOSSIP GIRL, which was already at a season high, climbed even higher to a genuinely good (for CW) 0.6, which may bode well for its 2-hour series finale next week.
Some of the seemingly dramatic rises will be reversed in a few hours due to local NFL simulcasts on CBS (in Houston) and ABC (in Boston).
NBC: THE VOICE fell a bit from last week to 3.8. The premiere of TAKE IT ALL did an OK 2.2, which NBC will consider a win if it can hold up for the remainder of the show’s 1-week run. A MICHAEL BUBLE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL didn’t find many takers with 1.4. (The latter was down heavily from last week’s Blake Shelton Christmas Special, which had a 2.2, but that one also had the benefit of a Voice lead-in.) In addition, note that Take It All fell from 2.4 to 2.1 in the course of its hour, and the Buble special likewise fell from 1.5 to 1.3. Since the last half-hour of The Voice was at 3.9, that means by the end of Take It All’s last half-hour, it had lost almost half of its lead-in audience.
FOX: Even the specials won’t pop for FOX on Mondays, as the AMERICAN COUNTRY AWARDS only reached a 1.4, off 0.6 from last year’s 2.0.
CW: Viewers seem finally to have noticed that they won’t have GOSSIP GIRL to kick around much longer, as its penultimate episode set a season high with 0.5 0.6 (up from 0.3 last week, a rise that looks even better in percentage terms). That followed a big (in context) 0.6 for 90210.
CBS: The pre-football adjustment Even after football adjustments, the numbers are all good: 3.3 3.2 for HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (up 0.2 0.1 ), matched followed by a 3.0 for a rerun BIG BANG THEORY at 8:30PM, then 4.0/3.9 3.7/3.8 for an hour of new 2 BROKE GIRLS episodes (up 0.5 0.2 in the first half-hour and up 0.8 0.7 in the second over last week’s Mike & Molly), followed by 2.7 2.5 for HAWAII 5-0 (up 0.4 0.2). But again, these numbers are unlikely to stand up.
ABC: Similarly, the 1.3/1.5 for 2 hours of EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION (up 0.4 in each hour from last week) and the 1.3 for a CASTLE rerun will be revised later today. Post-football adjustment, EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION had a 1.1/1.2 for its 2 hours (up 0.2 at 8PM and 0.1 at 9PM from last week), and a CASTLE rerun had a 1.1.
Tonight, Take It All continues its run on NBC, while the other networks have new episodes of their regular shows, apart from a couple of holiday specials on ABC and CW.
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