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THE SKED'S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

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Americans, faced with tragedy, gather around their television sets.  For the death of Whitney Houston, that meant the GRAMMYS.

CBS:  The sudden (and not so sudden) death of Whitney Houston turned the Grammys into An Event that transcended the usual awards-plus-glamor formula, and the result was a giant 14.1 rating, more than 2 rating points higher than last year's Academy Awards (and given this year's Oscar prospects, almost certain to be the season's highest-rated awards show).  Beyond the ratings, the show will undoubtedly give a huge boost in sales to the artists (especially the night's It Girl, Adele) who performed or won awards during the broadcast.  (A side note:  although advertisers are guaranteed a minimum rating for their commercials, and receive compensation if those numbers aren't hit, they get the full benefit of unexpectedly high ratings, meaning that all the sponsors of last night's show received windfalls worth millions of dollars.)


ABC:  Every other network suffered accordingly, and none more so than ABC, whose female-skewing lineup is geared to compete with NFL Football, but not with a colossus that attracts that same audience.  ONCE UPON A TIME was down about 10% from the episodes that competed with NFL playoff games, and that was the good news.  DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES hit a low that was 30% below its previous all-time bottom, and the penultimate episode of PAN AM was an embarrassing 0.7.

FOX:  Young guy-skewing shows weren't immune either, and FOX hit season lows across the board.  Its animated schedule was down 20% even from the weeks when CBS aired the late NFL playoff games.

NBC:  The network had basically given up on this night already (it'll launch the new season of Celebrity Apprentice next week), so comparatively speaking, it had the least to lose.  DATELINE and a FEAR FACTOR special did a 1.6 and 1.5, respectively, and on a cost-benefit basis that was probably the most effective competition of the night.

Tonight NBC bites its fingernails, as it waits to find out how many people will come back for a second helping of THE VOICE and, especially, SMASH.  This still being sweeps, the shows face all-new competition on every network.


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THE SKED'S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

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It was the last Monday before things get interesting.

FOX:  The network won the night, although the 2.8 for HOUSE and especially the 2.7 for ALCATRAZ were far from impressive, considering that CBS was in repeats and NBC will be ramping up the competition level enormously next week. February will tell the tale on both shows.  (Creatively, Alcatraz is spreading around plenty of breadcrumbs about its mythology, but mostly it's still just an intriguing procedural with very little interest in character development.)


CW:  GOSSIP GIRL's 100th episode, which as promised did indeed (seem to) conclude with a major--albeit illogical--revelation, could only muster a 0.1 increase from last week, and carried HART OF DIXIE up by the same amount.

ABC:  THE BACHELOR was down slightly from last week, but still up from the other episodes of this cycle; a repeat CASTLE lost to a repeat HAWAII 5-0 at 10PM.

NBC:  Next Monday (and the Monday after that) will be the most important nights of NBC's entire season.  Last night, not so much.  With a last-minute FEAR FACTOR rerun rushed onto the schedule (the reason involved donkey semen, and I only wish I were kidding), the network was in last place (excluding CW) for the entire evening.

CBS:  All repeats, and still a strong 2d place for the night, including wins at 9PM and 10PM.

CBS is all rerun again tonight, and aside from their respective reality shows, so are ABC and NBC.  FOX, though, has an all-new lineup, including the hyped Michael Jackson episode of GLEE, and on CW, RINGER returns with new episodes for the first time in 2 months.


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THE SKED'S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

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A night mostly on pause for college football.

ABC:  Although the network took the night, it wasn't able to make as much hay with its female-skewing programming as one might have expected, on an evening where the main event was the BCS Championship college football game on ESPN.  THE BACHELOR, facing repeats on 3 networks, lost 0.2 from its season premiere, and then CASTLE, airing a new episode for the first time in over a month, was a lot closer to its season low than its high.


NBC:  WHO'S STILL STANDING? did what it's been doing, up 0.1 from its Monday night average.  FEAR FACTOR, predictably, hit a season low 2.2 with its male-skewing crowd, and it dragged ROCK CENTER to a 0.8 series low.  NBC is just counting the Mondays (3 more) until it launches its new Voice/Smash line-up... what was that day again?  Oh yes, the night after the Super Bowl.  If only they'd air some promos to remind people...

CBS:   The Rerun King came within 0.1 of winning the night with no original programming at all.

FOX:  ALCATRAZ premieres next week; meanwhile, 2 rerun episodes of HOUSE managed a 1.1.

CW:  The long draught of repeat Mondays is nearly over, but last night was another pair of 0.3s.

Tonight, the 2d episode of WORK IT airs, and we'll find out what word-of-mouth has wrought.  ABC, CBS and NBC air new regular episodes, while FOX and CW remain in repeats.

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THE SKED'S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

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The networks (well, most of them) returned from their winter holidays only to find less viewer interest than they may have hoped.

CBS:  An easy win for the night with an all-new line-up.  But 2 1/2 MEN, MIKE & MOLLY and HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER were all down from their last original airings, and 2 BROKE GIRLS and HAWAII 5-0 were only up 0.1.  


ABC:  THE BACHELOR, like many of this season's reality franchises, returned to a significantly lower rating (down 0.5) than last year's premiere.  The good news for the network was that CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP held Bachelor's audience well, scoring about what Castle does in the slot--although it was an out of time slot "preview" before the show makes its official debut tonight.

NBC:  Its "real" Monday schedule won't debut until the night after the Super Bowl, as one of their roughly 9 zillion promos for The Voice and Smash may have told you.  Until then, they're muddling through with 3rd place finishes for WHO'S STILL STANDING and ROCK CENTER, and FEAR FACTOR's tie for 2d at 9PM with The Bachelor's 2.4.  

FOX:  2 hours of HOUSE reruns kept the lights on with a 1.2.

CW:  SECRET CIRCLE reruns barely registered at a 0.3.

Tonight, like last night, NBC, CBS and ABC will air new programming while FOX and CW remain in repeats.  ABC presents the actual premiere of Celebrity Wife Swap, and precedes it, for our sins, with the debut of WORK IT, winner (for the pilot, anyway) of this season's What Is This Show Doing On the Air? award.

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The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS December 19

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CBS Monday hung on to first place last night (2.2 Adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm) with an all-repeat schedule.  On this night last year (Monday, December 20, 2010), CBS averaged a 1.9 rating, also with repeats of its regular schedule: How I Met Your Mother (2.0), Rules of Engagement (1.9), Two and a Half Men (2.4), Mike & Molly (1.9) and Hawaii Five-O (1.7). 



CBS Mon        High Low  1114 1121 1128 12.5 1212 1219
How I Met Your 4.9  4.0  4.6  4.4  2.9R 4.5  --   2.3R
2 Broke Girls  7.1  4.2  4.8  4.6  3.3R 4.6  4.2  2.7R
2.5 Men       10.7  4.7  5.4  5.2  3.1R 5.0  4.7  2.5R
Mike & Molly   4.8  3.7  4.4  4.2  2.7R 4.2  4.0  2.2R
Hawaii Five-O  3.4  2.7  3.3  2.8  2.1R 3.0  2.8  1.8R


FOX provided the most significant competition to CBS last night, an original two-hour finale of Terra Nova from 8-10 pm (2.2 rating).  Despite fairly heavy promotion in FOX NFL Sunday, the time travel series that, at times, featured dinosaurs finished near the season lows of the last few weeks.  On this night last year, FOX averaged a 2.0 rating for a two-hour episode of Million Dollar Drop.   


FOX Mon        High Low  1114 1121 1128 12.5 1212 1219
Terra Nova     3.1  2.1  2.3  2.1  2.2  --   2.1  2.2*
House          3.9  2.5  2.5  2.5  2.6  --   1.3R --


NBC finished third on the night with a 1.7 rating from 8-11 pm.  The premiere of the game show Who's Still Standing? started the night with a mediocre 1.5 rating, while Fear Factor's second week declined 31% from the time period premiere last week (2.4 vs 3.5 rating last week).  Rock Center registered a 1.2 rating, at the high end of its narrow range of episode ratings.  Last year on this night, NBC averaged a 2.2 rating from 8-11 pm: The Sing-Off (2.7) from 8-10 pm, Perfect Couples repeat (1.3) and Office repeat (0.9).   


NBC Mon        High Low  1114 1121 1128 12.5 1212 1219
The Sing-Off   1.9  1.3  1.3  1.4  1.7  1.1  --   --
Fear Factor    3.5  2.4                      3.5  2.4*

Playboy Club   1.6  1.2 
Rock Center    1.2  0.9  1.1  0.9  1.2  0.9  1.1  1.2*



ABC had another rough Monday without the benefit of Dancing with the Stars or The Bachelor.  Animated specials from 8-9 pm (Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special (1.3) at 8:00 and A Chipmunk Christmas (1.4) at 8:30) were the high water mark for the network's evening, followed by a slight uptick for You Deserve It (1.1 this week vs 0.9 last week) and a 1.0-rated Castle repeat.  The network averaged a 1.2 rating last night, which is actually up considerably from the same night last year (a 0.7 rating from 8-11 pm for Skating with the Stars (0.5) at 8 pm, Castle repeat special (0.6) at 9 pm and Castle repeat (0.9) at 10 pm). 

ABC Mon        High Low  1114 1121 1128 12.5 1212 1219
Dancing Stars  4.0  2.8  3.2  3.5  --   --   --   --
You Deserve It 1.7  0.9  --   1.7  1.4  1.0  0.9  1.1*
Castle         3.2  2.0  ---  2.3  1.3R 2.0  0.9R 1.0R


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THE SKED'S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

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Forget about prestige drama and comedy:  it turned out all NBC needed was some dining on bugs.

NBC:  FEAR FACTOR returned to the airwaves with a tremendous 3.4 average over 2 hours.  This is great news for a network that sorely needs some, but it's worth noting that in this same holiday period last year, against mostly specials and repeats, The Sing-Off did a 3.6, a level that prompted the network to bring the show back as a fall series... and we all know how that worked out.  So Fear Factor may be more of a seasonal curiosity than an enduring hit.  Still:  success!  It turns out the cow blood audience doesn't overlap that much with the newsmagazine crowd (who knew?), so the glad tidings didn't extend to ROCK CENTER. 


FOX:  The positive spin on TERRA NOVA matching or setting a season low (depending on football adjustment) is that it was facing much more powerful competition on NBC than it's had all season.  Well, maybe--but it was also yet another lousy (and almost dinosaur-free) episode, as the series prepares next week for its season, and possibly series, finale.  Nobody showed up for the HOUSE repeat at 9PM.

CBS:  The 8PM experiment of putting 2 BROKE GIRLS in HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER's slot wasn't a huge success, scoring a few tenths below Mother's usual number.  On the other hand, most networks would drool for a slot-winning 4.1 rating at 8PM, so the test was hardly an abject failure.  The combination of a Broke Girls repeat at 9:30 and the strong male-oriented competition on NBC hurt 2 1/2 MEN and MIKE & MOLLY; the former set a new season low, and the latter was just a bit above its low.  HAWAII 5-0 was also near the bottom of its range, despite facing a repeat on ABC.

ABC:  Barely present, with ratings for yet another Charlie Brown Xmas special, the flop game-show YOU DESERVE IT and a CASTLE repeat all below a 1.5.

CW:  Repeats, repeats.  

Tonight CBS and FOX air new regular-series episodes, while NBC tries a Prince William & Kate special at 8PM, and ABC, oddly, has a new LAST MAN STANDING leading into a night otherwise in repeats.

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The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS December 12 -- Fear Factor Returns Big

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CBS Monday won the night yet again with a 3.6 rating.  The night was all originals, except for the benching of How I Met Your Mother.  Freshman hit 2 Broke Girls aired at 8:00 pm and scored a 4.1 Adult 18-49 rating, about half a rating point below what it normally does at 8:30 and about three or four tenths below the recent level for How I Met Your Mother.  At 9 pm, Two and a Half Men logged a sub-5 rating for the second time this year (4.6) and well below what the show did on this night last year (5.1 rating).  Mike & Molly scored a 3.9 rating, not quite a season low (3.7) but toward the bottom of this year's results.  Hawaii Five-O tied a season low for an original (2.8).  While the ratings are still strong versus the competition on the night, the disruption of one half hour shows that even a strong schedule is vulnerable to even slight disruptions of a habit-driven schedule.  Last year on this night (Monday, December 13, 2010):  How I Met Your Mother (4.5), Rules of Engagement (3.8), Two and a Half Men (5.1), Mike & Molly (4.2) and Hawaii Five-O (3.9). 



CBS Mon    9.19 9.26 10.3 1010 1017 1024 1031 11.7 1114 1121 1128 12.5 1212
How I Met  4.9  4.5  4.5  4.0  4.2  4.3  4.2  4.4  4.6  4.4  2.9R 4.5  --
2 Broke G  7.1  4.6  4.5  4.3  4.4  4.5  4.3  4.6  4.8  4.6  3.3R 4.6  4.1*
2.5 Men   10.7  7.4  6.2  5.9  5.3  5.5  4.7  5.2  5.4  5.2  3.1R 5.0  4.6*
Mike & M   ---  4.8  4.3  3.9  3.9  4.2  3.7  4.2  4.4  4.2  2.7R 4.2  3.9*
Hawaii 5   3.4  3.3  3.2  2.7  3.1  3.1  3.0  3.1  3.3  2.8  2.1R 3.0  2.8*


NBC found a hit show by going back to a reality show developed in 2001.  Fear Factor returned to the schedule with a 3.2 rating for a special episode at 8 pm (good for second place) and a 3.5 rating for the time period premiere at 9 pm (also a very strong second place).  Not surprisingly, a younger-skewing reality show (with equal parts helicopters, explosions and gallons of cow blood) did little to help a very old-skewing new magazine at 10 pm.  Rock Center scored a 1.1 rating (1.3 and 0.9 rating by half hour), a fairly typical performance for the program.  For the night, NBC averaged a 2.6 rating.  Last year on this night:  The Sing-Off (3.6) and Chase (1.2).   


NBC Mon    9.19 9.26 10.3 1010 1017 1024 1031 11.7 1114 1121 1128 12.5 1212
The Sing-O 1.9  1.7  1.8  1.5  1.6  1.5  1.4  1.5  1.3  1.4  1.7  1.1  --*
Fear Factor                                                            3.5*

Playboy Cl 1.6  1.3  1.2  ---  ---  ---  ---
Rock Centr ---  ---  ---  ---  ---  ---  1.0  1.0  1.1  0.9  1.2  0.9  1.1*


FOX fell to third place with a 1.8 rating.  Terra Nova tied a series low (2.1), although that number could decline to a 2.0 in the official nationals because of a pre-emption in St Louis for the ESPN Monday Night Football game.  Last night on this year:  House repeat (1.5) and Lie to Me repeat (1.2). 


FOX Mon    9.19 9.26 10.3 1010 1017 1024 1031 11.7 1114 1121 1128 12.5 1212
Terra Nova ---  3.1  3.1  2.5  2.8  ---  2.1  2.6  2.3  2.1  2.2  --   2.1*
House      ---  ---  3.9  2.7  3.1  ---  2.5  2.8  2.5  2.5  2.6  --   1.4R


ABC crashed to fourth place on the night with a lowly 1.1 rating.  The animated special I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown! pulled a 1.4 rating at 8 pm, while You Deserve It set another series low (0.9) and a Castle repeat bottomed out at a 1.0 rating.  Last year on this night:  Skating with the Stars (0.8), Mariah Carey special (1.2) and Castle (1.3). 

ABC Mon    9.19 9.26 10.3 1010 1017 1024 1031 11.7 1114 1121 1128 12.5 1212
Dancing St 4.0  3.3  3.1  3.0  3.3  3.2  2.8  3.4  3.2  3.5  --   --   --
You Deserve It                                          1.7  1.4  1.0  0.9*
Castle     3.2  3.1  2.5  2.1  2.5  2.4  2.7  2.4  ---  2.3  1.3R 2.0  1.0R


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