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THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

11:26 AM | Labels: 90210, Biggest Loser, body of proof, breaking in, cougar, Last man standing, network scorecard, new girl, raising hope, Ringer, river, teenage daughter, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings

FOX's 4-sitcom Tuesday excited no one.

FOX: I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER and BREAKING IN made unimpressive returns to the schedule. Daughter could claim a decent retention of its RAISING HOPE lead-in, and it also won the head-to-head sitcom battle at 8:30PM--but really there's nothing good about a 1.6 premiere. Breaking In had less excuse, falling to an ugly 1.7 from NEW GIRL's strong 3.0 lead-in, which was the highest number on any network last night. And even though Raising Hope handled its shift to 8PM well, it aired against an ABC repeat last night, so future results may not be as strong.

ABC: The network actually aired some good programming last night, to little avail. COUGAR TOWN had a funny half-hour directed by Courtney Cox, and for Bill Lawrence fans, it had the additional pleasure of a guest appearance by Scrubs' Sarah Chalke. After that, THE RIVER finally delved into what's supposed to be the show's central mystery--just what happened to Dr. Emmett Cole--which allowed Bruce Greenwood to appear in more than snippets, in a creepy hour directed by Michelle McLaren. For their troubles, the show got matching lousy 1.5 ratings, 4th place for their slots. (Cougar Town at least had the excuse that it rose from its repeat LAST MAN STANDING lead-in, but as its cast members continue to flock to 2d position pilot deals, that doesn't matter much.) The evening ended with a terrible 0.9 for a BODY OF PROOF repeat that was beaten by primary election coverage on NBC.

NBC: THE BIGGEST LOSER fell to a season and possibly a series low, dipping below a 2 for the first time. At 10PM, a DECISION 2012 special scored a not-embarrassing-for-a-news-special 1.0.

CBS: All repeats, which were still enough to win all but the 9-9:30PM half-hour of the night.

CW: 90210 returned after a month off with a fine (CW level) 0.7, but RINGER dipped to a 0.5 after that.

Tonight's only new arrival is REVENGE FOR REAL, which ABC will use to sucker in Revenge fans rather than air repeats. The network is giving it a bit of a lead-in with a new HAPPY ENDINGS (although that show's rating will be lowered by having a repeat MODERN FAMILY as its own lead-in). NBC airs new sitcoms at 8-9PM, and apart from that, only the unscripted shows on all the networks are original.

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THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2012: "New Girl"

11:53 PM | Labels: Comedy, deschanel, FOX, greenfield, Johnston, meriwether, morris, new girl, Paleyfest, The Sked, Tuesday, winston

There's something infectious about watching the people behind a brand-new TV hit enjoy their success, and at tonight's PaleyFest salute to this year's break-out comedy hit NEW GIRL, the pleasure of the cast and producers bubbled over.

To an unusual extent that the panelists acknowledged themselves, the dynamics among the cast members and writers seemed not unrelated to the relationships in the show. By the time creator/showrunner Elizabeth Meriwether had finished kicking off the session and introducing the episode being screened, it came as no surprise later on when star Zooey Deschanel summarized her character Jess by saying she was equal parts the 13-year old versions of herself and Meriwether. Similarly, the good-natured snarky bickering between Jake M. Johnson (Nick), Max Greenfield (Schmidt) and Lamorne Morris (Winston) could have been outtakes from any given episode, and there seemed to be a gray area between where the actress Hannah Simone left off and her character Cece picked up.

Everyone concerned spoke several times of the show's efforts to deepen and develop the characters as the show goes on, and it turned out that the screened episode "Injured" (which airs tomorrow night) was a standout example of this principle in action. "Injured" may be the first episode of New Girl that takes place entirely outside of the apartment all the characters except Cece share, and it centers on Nick rather than Jess. In the course of the episode, Nick has a health scare, and the tone of the episode resembles the bittersweet 50/50 more than New Girl's usual carefree celebration of character eccentricities. More interestingly, the episode has a very loose, casual feel akin to an F/X comedy. Not incidentally, "Injured" was directed by Lynn Shelton, whose reputation is in semi-improvised indie relationship comedy-dramas like Humpday and the excellent upcoming Your Sister's Sister--whether "Injured" was actually partly improvised or just very well scripted (by J.J. Philbin), it shows New Girl starting to put some distance between itself and its cutely charming roots.

There were little in the way of spoiler revelations in the course of the evening--as producer Jake Kasdan noted, the series has few enough continuing storylines, they didn't want to ruin any of them--except that Dermot Mulroney and Jeanne Tripplehorn will appear in an arc (Mulroney as a Jess love interest), and that shippers hoping for the seemingly inevitable Jess/Nick coupling will have to wait for a while.

With Glee fading, New Girl is now at the center of FOX's Tuesday night, with an audience slightly smaller than CBS' 2 Broke Girls but with far more pop cultural and critical cachet. The show has plenty of time--years, undoubtedly--to work out how and where they want the series to go.

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THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

11:23 AM | Labels: Biggest Loser, body of proof, cougar, glee, ncis, network scorecard, new girl, parenthood, raising hope, Ringer, The River, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings, Unforgettable

GLEE looks at a shark and considers taking a jump.

FOX: Despite perhaps the most melodramatic midseason finale of any "comedy' in TV history (a suicide attempt, an as-yet unexplained pregnancy, and a dead-or-not-dead? cliffhanger), GLEE was up only 0.1 from last week's season low. The show won't air again until mid-April. NEW GIRL was down to a new series low, and RAISING HOPE, while marginally up, was only 0.2 above its own season low. After next week's 2-hour special Tuesday Idol, both sitcoms will be part of FOX's 4-sitcom Tuesday through March, with Hope moving to earlier in the evening.

NBC: What's the deal with NBC's Promo department spoiling every upcoming plot point on PARENTHOOD in its "Next Week On..." spots? Both of last night's major developments been disclosed a week ago, and the promo for next week's season finale wasn't much better. A sign of desperation (last night continued a month of the show hovering at or just above its series low), or that the network just doesn't care? Meanwhile, THE BIGGEST LOSER continued its steady if unspectacular pace, with all ratings in the past 6 weeks within a narrow 0.2 range.

ABC: The good news for COUGAR TOWN was that it was down only 0.1 from last week's hyped premiere, but a 1.7 leaves little else to celebrate. 1.7 was also the steady number for THE RIVER, making no headway from 4th place at 9PM. BODY OF PROOF was up 0.2 from last week's series low, still bring up the rear in its hour.

CBS: The network edged out a 0.1 win for the night, but all its shows were down, with NCIS LA and UNFORGETTABLE hitting season lows.

CW: Here's an oddity: last night's repeat of HART OF DIXIE was only 0.2 below Monday's new episode (and just 0.1 below Monday's new GOSSIP GIRL). That surprisingly decent lead-in helped RINGER to a still-mediocre 0.5.

Everything is new tonight, including a 2-hour Idol on FOX. The only special event is a 20/20 standing in for Revenge on ABC, centering on this year's Oscar nominees back before they were famous. (Jean DuJardin and Berenice Bejo, before they were household names? How exciting!)

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The Sked: Upscale Ratings -- FOX Profile

10:28 AM | Labels: american idol, cops, family guy, glee, nad, new girl, simpsons, The Sked, TV ratings, upscale

Previously in this series on upscale TV ratings, we have examined ABC (many upscale shows but too many series stuck with mid-level or low audience sizes) and CBS (sizable audiences but many downscale or at best middling income skews). Today, we look at FOX, which averages a 2.9 rating with Adults 18-49 this season to date with its regular schedule (equal to the CBS rating and well ahead of ABC's 2.4). With Adults 18-49 in $100K+ income homes, FOX averages a 2.8 rating (slightly ahead of ABC's 2.7 and above CBS's 2.6). FOX's upscale index of 96 is better than CBS's 91 but far below ABC's 113.

High Rated Shows. Among FOX's many high-rated shows, the network has a pretty good distribution of upscale to mid-range to downscale properties. Two shows, Glee (139) and New Girl (130), grace the upper right section of our chart, boasting both high ratings and solid upper-income audience skews. Next, the FOX schedule is anchored by American Idol (105) with great (though declining ratings) and middle-range income skew, indicating its appeal to all people. The other FOX strengths, X Factor and the animation domination anchors, start to tilt downscale: from the Wednesday X Factor (94) to Thursday's edition (88), down to The Simpsons (84) and Family Guy (71). Not every show can be an upscale hit, but if the rest of the FOX schedule had such a balanced distribution, the network would be in pretty decent shape in terms of income skew.

Middle Rated Shows. However, among the sizable number of middle-rated shows on FOX, there is a decided downscale skew. There are no mid-rated FOX shows with a high upscale index and only three around 100: Monday's House (106) and Alcatraz (105) along with Raising Hope (104). The rest of Sunday's animation block really falls off an income cliff: Cleveland Show (65) and American Dad (56), joined by freshman series Napoleon Dynamite (68) and Allen Gregory (69). Other struggling shows from a variety of program genres find themselves with undistinguished index values in the 80s.

Low Rated Shows. The good news for FOX is a dearth of genuinely low-rated programs, but the bad news is that Saturday's installments of Cops have the lowest income index numbers of any network program (all the way down to the 50s) and Friday's Kitchen Nightmares (66) is also very low. Friday and Saturday are tough nights for the sales department (advertisers want to be on before the weekend starts when buying decisions are forming), and a downscale skew just makes the tough sales proposition almost impossible.

In the final post in this series, we will look at NBC, home of some of the most upscale -- and simultaneously lowest-rated -- programs on network TV.

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THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

10:27 AM | Labels: 90210, Biggest Loser, glee, Last man standing, ncis, new girl, parenthood, raising hope, Ringer, The River, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings, Unforgettable

Not all shows premiere like Smash.

ABC: In recent years, viewers have flocked to horror series from True Blood to The Walking Dead to The Vampire Diaries, and at the multiplex, "found footage" thrillers like Paranormal Activity, The Devil Inside and Chronicle sell tickets like crazy, so... So this is why the entertainment business drives businesspeople crazy, because comparatively speaking, no one showed up for THE RIVER, ABC's stab at the genre, which had a blah 2.4 opening, with a steadily decreasing track that bodes very badly for next week. It's a short-term problem for the network, since only 7 episodes were ordered, but it's not going to make Tuesdays in the rest of February and March pleasant for ABC. The 8PM LAST MAN STANDING was just 0.2 above its season low, and a special 8:30PM episode didn't do much better.

NBC: Any hope for a halo effect after the best 2 days of the network's season went out the window, as THE BIGGEST LOSER was up only 0.1 from recent weeks, and then PARENTHOOD, facing a stronger competitor on ABC than the usual Body of Proof, slumped to a season low 1.6. Parenthood's ratings in 2012 have been terrible, and with only a few more episodes left in its season order, its producers have to be glad they're on the one network where those numbers aren't necessarily a death sentence.

CBS: The 200th episode of NCIS easily won its hour, but with The River perhaps siphoning off some male viewers, NCIS LA and UNFORGETTABLE were both only 0.1 above their season lows.

FOX: GLEE was way down from last week's Michael Jackson episode (apparently Ricky Martin doesn't have quite the same name value). NEW GIRL won its timeslot, but shows no signs of recapturing the highs of its fall ratings, and both it and RAISING HOPE were 0.2 above their season lows.

CW: 90210 held its own with a 0.7, but RINGER's 0.5 was down 0.1 from last week's midseason premiere.

Tonight the only news is on the news side: CBS fills in at 8PM (pending the return of Survivor) with a special PERSON TO PERSON interview show hosted by Charlie Rose and Lara Logan (the title is from an Edward R. Murrow series that ran 1953-1961, a reference that should certainly pull in the young crowd). At 9PM, ROCK CENTER moves to its new timeslot, where it can look forward to being decimated by a new MODERN FAMILY on ABC. At 10PM, CSI will probably be down from Marg Helgenberger's exit episode, while REVENGE moves toward the endgame of the first arc of its season's storyline.

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THE SKED: FOX Adjusts Its Tuesdays

6:11 PM | Labels: american idol, breaking in, FOX, new girl, raising hope, teenage daughter, The Sked, Tuesday

FOX had announced last year that rather than air GLEE repeats in the space between its original February episodes and the new ones that will close out the season, it would instead air a 2-hour block of sit-coms. That's still the plan, but today they shuffled just what those comedies will be and when they'll air.

Starting on March 6, Tuesdays will start with new episodes of RAISING HOPE (instead of New Girl reruns, as originally scheduled), facing off against Last Man Standing (as well as NCIS and Biggest Loser, which are less direct competition). Then I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, which had been scheduled to air after 90-minute American Idol episodes on Wednesdays, will instead take the 8:30PM slot and compete with Cougar Town. NEW GIRL will of course keep its usual 9PM slot, and at 9:30PM BREAKING IN, the Christian Slater slow that was cancelled and then un-cancelled last Spring, will try to capitalize on its newly strong lead-in (it was originally supposed to have the 8:30PM slot).

At first glance, this is clearly good news for Breaking In, which gets an original New Girl rather than a repeat as its lead-in. It's bad news for Raising Hope, which loses its sheltered 9:30 slot and has to open the evening against Tim Allen. Since Hope will be Teenage Daughter's lead-in rather than American Idol, it's also bad for Teenage, and seemingly unnecessary in terms of Tuesday results, since original Teenage episodes probably won't do a number much different than New Girl repeats would have. The one piece of this puzzle that FOX hasn't yet announced is what will now be airing at 9:30PM on Wednesdays, and it'll be interesting to see if Idol is extended for 2 hours on that night--if so, it may suggest that FOX needed this change to create some extra Idol advertising inventory, in order to make up for the shortfall in this season's ratings and revenues.

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THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

11:09 AM | Labels: 90210, Biggest Loser, body of proof, celebrity wife swap, glee, Last man standing, ncis, new girl, parenthood, raising hope, Ringer, The Sked, Tuesday, Unforgettable

Some things are eternal, and Michael Jackson appears to be one of them.

FOX: GLEE's Michael Jackson episode propelled the show to a 3.6, its best rating in months. The strong lead-in didn't help the network's sit-coms much, though: NEW GIRL was only up 0.1 for the night, and RAISING HOPE fell to match its season low.

CW: RINGER, returning from a hiatus that seemed almost as long as Mad Men's, didn't find absence making audience hearts grow much fonder, with the same 0.6 it had on November 29, which was down slightly from its 90210 lead-in.

NBC: BIGGEST LOSER was even with last week, but that wasn't good news, as it was close to a season low. Repeats of the serialized PARENTHOOD are always ugly, and last night's 0.7 was no exception.

ABC: LAST MAN STANDING and BODY OF PROOF were at their usual unimpressive repeat levels, and the season finale of CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP couldn't leave town fast enough (The River takes its slot next week), setting a season low.

CBS: All repeats, with 3d place finishes for both NCIS shows, but a win for UNFORGETTABLE in the battle of the reruns at 10PM.

Tonight is the last night before February sweeps, so ABC is all repeats, while the only new show on CBS is this year's installment of Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials, while NBC will have fresh episodes of its woeful Whitney/Chelsea duo. FOX will hope to take advantage of the reduced competition with bigger numbers for American Idol, before its declining ratings becomes even more of a story than they already are.

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THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

10:32 AM | Labels: Biggest Loser, body of proof, celebrity wife swap, glee, Last man standing, ncis, network scorecard, new girl, parenthood, remodeled, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings, Unforgettable

The FOX Tuesday line-up returned to moderate results.

FOX: The network won the night, but unimpressively: GLEE tied the season low it hit during the holiday season, and NEW GIRL was only 0.1 above its own.

CBS: For whatever reason, the NCIS LA repeat tanked last night, down to a 1.7 that was well below its holiday season reruns. That brought the UNFORGETTABLE repeat down, and the result was the rare sight (even with an all-repeat slate) of CBS in 4th place for the evening.

ABC: Comparatively speaking, LAST MAN STANDING was the night's success story, up half a ratings point from its last original episode in December. A rerun at 8:30PM did better than almost all the original programming that's been pumped into that slot this season, then CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP and (less happily) BODY OF PROOF hung steady.

NBC: Despite the reruns on CBS, BIGGEST LOSER lost 0.1 from last week, and PARENTHOOD tied its season low with a 1.7 for the third week in a row.

CW: Even by the network's standards, the 0.3 debut for the new reality show REMODELED is a disaster. CW will be stunting the show all over its schedule for the next couple of weeks, trying to drum up some interest. 90210, which had been showing signs of life compared to some of the other CW veterans, subsided to a mediocre 0.6.

Only 2 words have any meaning on tonight's TV line-up: AMERICAN IDOL. The show survived its cast changes last season in fine form, so the only question, as ever, will be the size of its victory. On a much smaller scale, CSI begins the arc of Marg Helgenberger's departure tonight, which may give that show a boost.

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THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

11:10 AM | Labels: Biggest Loser, body of proof, celebrity wife swap, chelsea, Last man standing, network scorecard, new girl, parenthood, peoples choice, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings, Unforgettable, whitney, Work It

Potentially good news for Cougar Town fans.

ABC: Cougar Town needs a timeslot, and Tuesday 8:30PM should be opening up any minute now, as 20% of the people who watched WORK IT the first time ran away screaming this week, and the show plunged to a 1.6 rating. However, that real estate may not be as valuable as it should be, because lead-in LAST MAN STANDING hit a series low 2.2 last night. All of this, mind you, is while FOX's Glee is still in reruns--when it returns with new episodes next week, the hour will only get more difficult. CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP continued its low run, and BODY OF PROOF was up only 0.1 from last week's season low.

CBS: An easy win in every hour, although UNFORGETTABLE tied a season low 2.2. (As Mitch Metcalf notes, however, 10PM ratings last night are subject to adjustment due to coverage of the New Hampshire Republican primary.)

NBC: BIGGEST LOSER was down a bit from last week, and PARENTHOOD was up only 0.1 from last week's season low. However, those numbers were good enough for 2d place across the board, which in NBC terms is practically a win.

FOX: Reruns, with a 1.3 for NEW GIRL looking best.

CW: Where are they finding these movies? Last night the network regaled America with 2 hours of TABLE FOR THREE, a film that seems to have been chosen because it starred One Tree Hill's Sophia Bush and Once Upon A Time's Jennifer Morrison (not to mention sometime Chuck villain Brandon Routh), and which previously had been seen only by their agents and close family.

Tonight's big event is NBC's premiere of its new 8-9PM comedy hour, with WHITNEY shifted from Thursday and the new ARE YOU THERE, CHELSEA?. At 9PM, CBS airs the PEOPLES CHOICE AWARDS, which slumped badly last year from its 2010 number to a 2.7 rating.

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THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

10:12 AM | Labels: Biggest Loser, body of proof, Last man standing, ncis, new girl, parenthood, swap, The Secret Circle, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings, Unforgettable, Work It

Justice was swift for the worst new show of the season.

ABC: WORK IT debuted with a lousy 2.0 on its quick journey to the TV boneyard. In fairness, LAST MAN STANDING's 2.4 gave it a much weaker lead-in than the 3.0 the show was able to provide for MAN UP's 2.4 debut in the fall. But look where Man Up is now--and Work It, facing reruns on 2 networks, will almost inevitably go down from its premiere, which should seal its fate. At 9PM, CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP rose modestly from Work It to a 2.2, holding the hour until the return of Dancing With the Stars. BODY OF PROOF returned disastrously to new episodes with a 1.5.

NBC: BIGGEST LOSER's weak 2.3 premiere was a full ratings point below last year's winter premiere, but on par with this season's fall start--it's simply a show in steep decline, and dates and competition don't matter much. PARENTHOOD didn't do its bubble status any favors with a series low 1.7 rating, and creatively, it was an unusually gimmicky (road trip!) and pat episode for a show that's typically better than that.

CBS: Meanwhile, on the winning side... CBS simply aired new episodes of its regular shows and obliterated the competition for the night, with NCIS beating its closest competitor at 8PM by a factor of 75%, and NCIS LA and UNFORGETTABLE each winning their hours by 45% margins.

FOX: Still in repeat mode, with a 1.3 for NEW GIRL the night's high-point.

CW: More repeats of SECRET CIRCLE, more 0.3-0.4 numbers.

Tonight ABC is the only network with all-new episodes. CBS starts the night with an I GET THAT A LOT special, then reruns; FOX has a new episode of MOBBED at 9PM as it waits for American Idol to arrive; NBC is all-rerun; and CW continues the marathon of Secret Circle episodes that no one seems to want.

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THE SKED'S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

11:21 AM | Labels: criminal, harry, modern, network scorecard, new girl, revenge, The Sked, TV ratings, up all night, Wednesday

OK, now they're not even trying: every single show on network TV last night was a repeat.

CBS: Which is exactly how CBS likes it. Not to rub salt in NBC's many wounds, but the CBS average last night with reruns (2.1, highlighted by a 2.3 for CRIMINAL MINDS) was just about what NBC does with new programming almost every non-football night of the week.

ABC: The sitcoms did OK, all things considered (1.2-1.9, with MODERN FAMILY, of course, at the top), but that 0.6 for REVENGE was painful.

FOX: Managed with scrape above a 1.0 for the 9PM hour with NEW GIRL.

NBC: Ugliest of the ugly. The highest number was a 1.0 for UP ALL NIGHT, and then HARRY'S LAW did a CW-level 0.5.

CW: A Hilary Duff movie that barely appeared in theatres did a 0.4, which is about what their series reruns have been scoring.

No relief tonight, although ABC will air a repeat Charlie Brown special at 8PM.

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THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

12:06 PM | Labels: body of proof, ncis, network scorecard, new girl, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings

The broadcast networks continue their holiday vacation, with virtually no new programming on the air.

CBS: The KENNEDY CENTER HONORS are a prestige show that no one watches, and more so this year: a dismal 1.1 that was down considerably even from last year's 1.5--and that's with a 2.1 NCIS rerun lead-in that was by far the highest number of the night.

ABC: Its reruns won the 9-11PM slots, including a rare time-slot win for the rerun BODY OF PROOF.

FOX: The night's highlight was a 1.0 for a NEW GIRL repeat.

NBC: Couldn't crack 0.9 for the night.

CW: Ever hear of a movie called KEITH? Neither did the rest of America, as the Jesse McCarthy picture did a 0.3.

The parade of reruns continues tonight, aside from a Hilary Duff flick on CW.

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THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

12:16 PM | Labels: Biggest Loser, glee, Last man standing, ncis, network scorecard, new girl, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings, Unforgettable

We're deep in the holiday TV season, and even with new episodes on most of the networks, viewership was on the low side.

FOX: GLEE and NEW GIRL have never bounced back from their baseball preemptions, and both continue their downward trajectory, although they're still quite successful. (Creatively, the Christmas Glee episode poured on the sentiment like turkey gravy, while New Girl was more charming.)

CBS: Even the mighty NCIS shows floundered a bit, tying their season lows. (Although that was still enough for a win at 8PM.) UNFORGETTABLE set a new low, with the excuse that it faced stronger competition than usual from NBC.

NBC: The network couldn't find any better lead-in to the BIGGEST LOSER cycle finale than a documentary about Prince William and Kate, which was long past its Sell-By date with a 1.2. Loser then had its highest rating of the season, although it was down more than 35% from last year's winter finale.

ABC: Only the network knows why it burned off a fresh episode of LAST MAN STANDING to kick off a night of repeats. The result was a series-low rating, down almost 20% from last week. The repeats afterward were a litany of people gradually changing the channel: 2.0, 1.5, 1.3, 1.1.

CW: Repeat hell.

Tonight CBS and FOX air new regular-series episodes against repeats on NBC and ABC.

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THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

11:16 AM | Labels: 90210, Biggest Loser, glee, ncis, new girl, raising hope, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings, Unforgettable

Not much good news for anyone--including the night's winner.

FOX: The network ran the table 8-10PM, but with ugly numbers: GLEE and NEW GIRL both set season lows, and RAISING HOPE was just 0.1 above its low. For the first time in quite a while, Glee was below a 3 rating.

ABC: LAST MAN STANDING was up from last week, although its 2.6 was still just 0.2 above that season low. MAN UP!, on its way out, hit a new low. Reruns of THE MIDDLE and SUBURGATORY averaged a 1.2, even lower than Middle had done last week. BODY OF PROOF also set a new low, with an awful 1.5 for a new episode.

NBC: Hardly anyone wanted to celebrate Christmas with Michael Buble, as his special managed only a 1.5. After that, BIGGEST LOSER perked up to a 2.2, which was down from last week but still above other recent episodes.

CBS: An all rerun night, with NCIS way down from last week's repeat (2.1 vs 2.9). Notably, though, the repeat UNFORGETTABLE managed to beat the new Body of Proof on ABC.

CW: 90210, unlike Gossip Girl, is still holding its own in CW terms with a 0.8. RINGER was a repeat.

Tonight will be the first with regular schedules, no specials or repeats, in a while. The number to watch will be the 2d episode of FOX's I Hate My Teenage Daughter, this time airing against new episodes on the other networks.

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UPDATED: THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

1:10 PM | Labels: Biggest Loser, body of proof, dancing, glee, Last man standing, Man Up, network scorecard, new girl, parenthood, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings

UPDATE: Both GLEE and PARENTHOOD avoided their worst fates for the night. In final national numbers, each show's rating increased by 0.1, just enough to keep GLEE at 3.0 and PARENTHOOD at 2.0. Indeed, the final ratings fairies were doubly kind to PARENTHOOD, because BODY OF PROOF went down slightly, meaning that PARENTHOOD managed to tie the ABC show for 2d place in the hour. It's an easy game...

A consistent night, but mostly not in a good way.

FOX: GLEE only slipped 0.2 points from last week, but it was an ugly symbolic dip, putting the show below a 3 rating for the first time this season. It also looks like NEW GIRL's days of ratings that begin with a 4 are over, as the show's pre-baseball numbers seem to have fallen permanently. However, a 3.5 rating, especially building on its lead-in, is still a strong success, and creatively the show had another thoroughly charming episode last night. (Note: FOX's Tuesday, which could really use some stability at this point, will have yet another disruption next Tuesday, since in order to clear Thanksgiving night for specials, the network will air X Factor on Tuesday and Wednesday.)

ABC: Both LAST MAN STANDING and MAN UP! tied their lows, which is OK news for the first (already back ordered) and a probable death sentence for the latter. This cycle of DANCING WITH THE STARS can't end soon enough for ABC, and BODY OF PROOF is lucky it's in one of the week's weakest hours.

CBS: Everything was within 0.1 of where it's been lately, all's right with the world.

NBC: Another bad symbolic decline, this time for PARENTHOOD, which dipped below a 2 for the first time all season. Amazingly, that still makes it one of the network's strongest 10PM shows. (Fun Fact! Last week's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE had a 2.7 rating in the 18-49 demo--which wasn't even its highest of the season--and that outrated every primetime show on NBC except The Office and football.) BIGGEST LOSER fell from last week and was back in oblivion.

CW: Both 90210 and RINGER stayed within the network's normal corridor.

Tonight FOX will look for some recovery from X FACTOR, while ABC will hope that a supposedly pivotal episode of REVENGE gets a response.

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THE SKED'S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

11:08 AM | Labels: 90210, Biggest Loser, CMA Awards, glee, Last man standing, Man Up, network scorecard, new girl, parenthood, Ringer, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings

Post-baseball hangover over? Not so fast.

FOX: Unlike Monday, FOX's Tuesday seems to have been seriously dented by baseball preemptions. GLEE only recovered a bit of its pre-baseball number, and despite a much-publicized episode in which 2 of the main characters lost their virginity, the show is now running a scary 25% below last season's average. NEW GIRL managed to barely win its timeslot, but it's 20% below where it was at the beginning of October. Making matters worse, RAISING HOPE took an odd nosedive from last week, and is now losing 40% of its lead-in's rating.

ABC: The LAST MAN STANDING/MAN UP! hour isn't benefiting from Glee's decline, as both shows continued to slip. Preempting BODY OF PROOF didn't do anything for the 10PM hour, as a Robin Roberts interview special was even a couple of ticks worse.

CBS: The NCIS shows continue to deliver, and while UNFORGETTABLE isn't in their league, it's doing well enough to win its weak timeslot.

NBC: THE BIGGEST LOSER built a bit on last week's increase (although it's still running more than 20% below last season's average), but PARENTHOOD was unable to capitalize on that and was at the lower end of its season's range.

CW 90210 and RINGER were respectively slightly up and down, but only by a tenth each. With the exception of Thursday, the network's schedule is mired in the 0.6-0.8 range (with a 2 month hiatus on the way).

Tonight we'll see a disruption in the usual Wednesday as ABC preempts its schedule for one of the few November sweeps stunts, the CMA Awards show. Last year's telecast did a sterling 4.7 in 18-49s, and that would be considerably higher even than the network's very successful recent average for the night.

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THE SKED: Tuesday Ratings - Network Scorecard

11:03 AM | Labels: body of proof, dancing, Last man standing, Man Up, ncis, network scorecard, new girl, parenthood, Ringer, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings

Isn't Sweeps supposed to be when viewers watch more TV?

FOX: The post-baseball hangover continues. After Terra Nova and House struck out at the plate on Monday night, the Tuesday line-up came to bat and didn't do much better. GLEE's season low was a full 30% below last year's season average, and the show was barely ahead of ABC's lackluster half-hour at 8PM. NEW GIRL is still a solid success, but almost a full month's absence didn't make viewers' hearts grow fonder for Zooey Deschanel, and the show was down 20% from its last airing. That dragged RAISING HOPE down as well.

ABC: The good news for the Alphabet was that Glee's decline made its first hour look not so bad. Nevertheless, LAST MAN STANDING is barely a success with a 2.6, in 3rd place for its slot, and MAN UP is barely breathing with a 1.8. Declines at the other networks boosted DANCING WITH THE STARS slightly, and technically BODY OF PROOF went up too, although that increase may dissipate in final numbers thanks to typical Dancing overruns past 10PM.

NBC: Here's a fun fact: apart from Sunday and football, Tuesday is the only night of the week where the entire NBC schedule scores over a 2 in the ratings. That Murderers Row of television was even up a bit last night, and it was particularly good news that despite last week's preemption for a Prime Suspect repeat, PARENTHOOD bounced right back to within 0.1 of a tie for its timeslot lead.

CBS: 5-10% declines across the board from last week, but still good enough to win every half-hour of the evening except 9PM, when New Girl (at least in preliminary numbers) edged out NCIS LA.

CW: By this network's standards, RINGER is doing nicely with a 0.8 that built slightly on its 90210 lead-in.

The days when networks filled Sweeps months with stunt programming are long gone, and tonight's only wrinkle is that NBC will air an Up All Night repeat following the new episode at 8PM instead of a Whitney repeat.

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The Sked: TUESDAY RATINGS November 1 & Sweep Update

8:42 AM | Labels: Last man standing, new girl, November, sweep, The Sked, Tuesday

Last night a year ago was Election Day 2010, chock full of midterm election coverage, repeat episodes and lower than average ratings. So last night's ratings look pretty good in comparison. CBS won the night last night with a 3.2 rating, up from a 1.9 on the same night last year. FOX scored a 3.0 in the fast nationals last night, more than doubling the 1.4 last year. NBC averaged a 2.3 last night, up a touch from last year's 2.1. Only ABC (2.3 last night) saw a decline (from a 2.4 last year with an original, expanded edition of Dancing Results and ABC News election coverage). The updated sweep to date numbers follow, but click "read more" to see the real news of last night: FOX's attempt to return its Tuesday lineup.

           NOVEMBER SWEEP SCORECARD
          2011 vs 2010 Through Day 6 of 28

                 2011    2010
          FOX 4.2 3.6     +19%
          CBS 2.7 2.4     +14%
          ABC 2.3 2.5     -10%
          NBC 2.6 2.5 + 4%

Remember that really cool FOX Tuesday lineup from the beginning of the season? Let me refresh your memory: Glee kicked off the night at 8:00, followed by the comedy hit starring Zooey Deschanel New Girl at 9:00, and capped off by last year's semi-hit comedy Raising Hope. Well, after three full weeks of pre-emptions from baseball and special nights of The X Factor, America seems to have forgotten about the shows, too. All three shows hit season lows last night when they were finally able to return. While a 3.5 for New Girl is nothing to sneeze at, it has a long way to go to regain its undeniable hit status.

FOX Tues Track   9.20  9.27  10.4  10.11 10.18 10.25 11.1 

Glee             4.0   3.7   3.6   ---   ---   ---   2.9*

New Girl         4.8   4.5   4.3   ---   ---   ---   3.5*

Raising Hope     3.1   2.9   2.9   ---   ---   ---   2.5*

CBS Tuesday rolls on without any interruption but at the low end of the season's ratings range. NCIS, pending an official national uptick, is sitting at tying a season low, as is the 10 pm entry Unforgettable. NCIS: LA is sitting a tenth of a point above the season low. Still the ratings are enough to win the night, even (shockingly) at 10 pm.

CBS Tues Track   9.20  9.27  10.4  10.11 10.18 10.25 11.1 

NCIS             4.3   4.2   4.2   4.0   3.9   4.1   3.9*

NCIS: LA         3.6   3.6   3.4   3.3   3.4   3.7   3.4*
Unforgettable    2.9   2.5   2.5   2.3   2.5   2.5   2.3*

Down three weeks in a row, Last Man Standing is still looking for its bottom. My guess is that it settles in at a 2.5 in the next few weeks, while Man Up! might settle around a 1.6. But we shall see. Dancing with the Stars Results rebounded a bit to a 2.8 last night despite the softening 8 pm hour ahead of it. Also, Body of Proof bounced up a few tenths, back above the 2.0 Mendoza line.

ABC Tues Track   9.20  9.27  10.4  10.11 10.18 10.25 11.1 

Last Man Standing --   ---   ---   3.6   3.1   2.8   2.6*

Man Up!           --   ---   ---   ---   2.4   2.0   1.8*
Dancing Results  2.9   2.9   2.9   3.3   2.6   2.6   2.8* 
Body of Proof    2.2   1.8   2.0   1.8   1.9   1.8   2.0*

NBC tied its best Tuesday performance of the season with a 2.3 for The Biggest Loser and a 2.2 for Parenthood. Not exactly cause for celebration at Universal City, but it beats bad news.

NBC Tues Track   9.20  9.27  10.4  10.11 10.18 10.25 11.1 

Biggest Loser    2.3   2.3   2.1   2.0   1.9   2.0   2.3*

Parenthood       2.1   2.2   2.0   2.1   2.0   ---   2.2*
 

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THE SKED: FOX Delays - Baseball Hits "Terra Nova," Wait For "Girl"

5:30 PM | Labels: 20th century fox, Dream House, new girl, Terra Nova, The Sked, the x factor

FOX's week isn't going as originally planned. Last night a rainout of the American League playoffs forced the network to air repeats and drop out of the Sunday ratings picture. Today that game was rescheduled for the afternoon... but as this is being written, the game is in the 11th inning, tied 3-3, half an hour into primetime, and although Fox, unlike CBS, usually tries not to let its schedule slide for sports, the network is saying that tonight both TERRA NOVA and HOUSE will air in their entirety after the game ends. (Of course, that will become more problematic if the game doesn't end sometime soon.)

In other FOX news, don't get all excited about those special NEW GIRL episodes that were supposed to air after X FACTOR this Wednesday and next Tuesday, because they've been pulled from the schedule. X Factor will now run 2 hours on those nights, and New Girl won't be seen until Glee returns post-baseball on November 1. Perhaps the network didn't want to waste what is now a valuable player on its Tuesdays with episodes on irregular days; in any case, Zooey Deschanel fans will have to dust off their DVDs of (500) Days of Summer (or, if I may suggest, try something more obscure like Mumford or All the Real Girls) for their October fix of manic pixieness.

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THE SKED: Tuesday Ratings - Network Scorecard

10:55 AM | Labels: 90210, Biggest Loser, body of proof, dancing, glee, ncis, network scorecard, new girl, parenthood, Ringer, The Sked, Tuesday, TV ratings, Unforgettable

The excitement of Premiere Week is over, and shows are settling into their "real" numbers.

FOX: The small decline for NEW GIRL (which had another charming episode last night--the show has found its creative groove with remarkable speed) isn't serious. What may concern FOX, though, is that they promoted last night's extremely earnest episode of GLEE like crazy--it was practically A Very Special Episode--and the number ticked down instead of up. Glee is now on hiatus until November 1 because of baseball, and unless the network has some big "event" episode set for the show's return, they have to be a little worried about what that rating will be in 4 weeks.

CBS: Even though the decline for UNFORGETTABLE was very slight, and consistent with the small drops for the NCIS shows, the fact is that the new series is losing audience rather than building one. If that number keeps creeping down over the next few weeks (especially if Body of Proof creeps up), that could be a problem.

ABC: Although the BODY OF PROOF number will probably come down a bit when final numbers are in (due to DANCING WITH THE STARS overrun), it's heartening that the show is moving up, even as Dancing is heading in the other direction.

NBC: BIGGEST LOSER is starting to earn its title, and the sad part is that it's dragging down PARENTHOOD with it. NBC is essentially out of the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday business this fall, which is scary..

CW: Although it was doubtless hurt by its lousy 90210 lead-in, RINGER has felt more unconvincing and dramatically weak with each episode, and that can't be helping its numbers.

Tonight we'll find out how SUBURGATORY holds up on its second airing. Look for a Pilot + 1 Review later, and also for a review of Ryan Murphy's new FX spectacle, AN AMERICAN HORROR STORY.

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