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FASHION STAR‘s premiere wasn’t very attractive.
NBC: FASHION STAR debuted with a 1.6 which, as lousy as it was, allows the network to briefly claim a timeslot victory–next week, when Unforgettable (which has been rating in the low 2s) airs a fresh episode, that will almost certainly change. Star couldn’t even hold its 2.0 BIGGEST LOSER lead-in (itself just 0.1 above a season low).
FOX: Nobody was laughing over at FOX about their 4-sitcom line-up. It was season lows for everyone, and that included RAISING HOPE‘s first fall under a 2 rating and NEW GIRL‘s first drop under a 3, although New Girl still won its timeslot. I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER and BREAKING IN (which aired an episode featuring new cast member Erin Richards) both seem unlikely to survive the season.
ABC: Things were no prettier at the Alphabet. COUGAR TOWN saved its best gag for last, an all-time Scrubs easter egg bit, but hardly anyone was around to see it: a series low 1.4 that was barely above its repeat LAST MAN STANDING lead-in (Last Man, by the way, held even with last week’s repeat despite the arrival of Daylight Savings Time). THE RIVER became even more polluted with a series low 1.3, then BODY OF PROOF, ready for its own autopsy, managed a 1.4.
CBS: Another night of repeats, which did fine: NCIS (despite a 0.3 fall from last week’s repeat that may have been attributable to Daylight Savings Time) won its hour, and NCIS LA and UNFORGETTABLE were both in 2d place.
CW: 90210 and RINGER both matched season lows, with Ringer low even by CW standards with a 0.4.
Tonight all the networks have fresh programming except for a repeat SVU on NBC, and ABC takes its 2d shot with the pseudo-news REVENGE FOR REAL (next week that slot starts running MISSING repeats). .
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