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Nobody wanted to watch TV last night.
ABC: The premiere of Shonda Rhimes’ SCANDAL tied PRIVATE PRACTICE‘s 2.1 season low, a very unencouraging start. This followed new series lows for GREY’S ANATOMY and MISSING (2.8 and 1.4, respectively), making for a night of failure.
FOX: AMERICAN IDOL fell to a series low 3.8, but even worse for FOX, TOUCH collapsed all the way to 2.3, putting it in a league with ALCATRAZ and TERRA NOVA as a 1-hour underperformer.
CBS: The news wasn’t much better here. BIG BANG THEORY and THE MENTALIST hit season lows, although both were #1 in their time periods. PERSON OF INTEREST was also down 0.4, but that was still enough to give it the win over a new Grey’s for the 1st time.
NBC: Could things get worse? At NBC, things can always get worse. So much for COMMUNITY‘s brief upsurge, as it plummeted 0.4 from last week to set a new season low. And yet–that was the network’s best number of the night, as ignominious an accomplishment as one can imagine. The rest of the line-up was a one-way ticket to Season Low City, as 30 ROCK hit a 1.2, UP ALL NIGHT a 1.1, and AWAKE a 0.9. A bit of context: this means that the March 29 episode of CW’s THE VAMPIRE DIARIES tied or beat last night’s entire NBC schedule–you know, the one that used to be called “Must-See TV”.
CW: But last night, Vampire and THE SECRET CIRCLE were in repeats, reducing them to a mere 0.4 apiece.
Tonight all the networks feature original regular programming, except for repeats on CW and a rerun SHARK TANK on ABC.
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