A good start for the Peacock.
NBC: Regular season competition dented but didn’t break the Monday line-up. THE VOICE was the highest rated show of the night at 4.3, more than 50% higher than the Dancing With the Stars premiere and handily beating the CBS sitcom slate. REVOLUTION, while down 15% from its launch, dominated its hour with a 3.5 (although since the show started at 10:01 and included a minute of The Voice, that number may come down a bit).
CBS: Apples-to-apples comparisons with last season’s premieres don’t work because of last year’s massively hyped start of the Ashton Kutcher era on 2 1/2 Men, which held strongly for the first few weeks. However, the numbers last night were very soft. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER at 3.4 was well behind NBC, and PARTNERS showed very little promise, dropping more than 30% from its lead-in to a 2.4. 2 BROKE GIRLS was adequate but not exciting with a 3.7, and MIKE & MOLLY lost 20% of that lead-in with 3.0. Worst of all was HAWAII 5-0, in 3rd place at 10PM with a dismal 1.9. So much for the CBS Monday juggernaut…
ABC: DANCING WITH THE STARS got no traction from its “all-star” premise, falling 20% from last year’s disappointing premiere to 2.7 (and that number will probably come down once football preemptions are calculated out). CASTLE held fairly well (at least until the post-football recount) at 2.5.
FOX: BONES stayed at its so-so level, down an insignificant 0.1 despite the new competition at 2.2. But THE MOB DOCTOR, which had no room to fall, slipped to a 1.3 and probably isn’t long for the Monday night schedule.
CW: THE LA COMPLEX departed as it had rated all along, with 0.3/0.2 for its 2 hour finale.
The beat goes on tonight, with premieres of VEGAS on CBS and BEN & KATE and THE MINDY PROJECT on FOX, along with season premieres of NEW GIRL (including a “bonus” 8PM episode to launch Ben & Kate), PRIVATE PRACTICE and the NCIS duo.
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