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THE SKED'S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD

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Unfortunately for NBC, there are other nights in the week besides Monday.

NBC:  The gradual season-long collapse of THE OFFICE continued last night, as the show's 2.5 hit not just a season low, but its lowest rating since Season 1 in 2005--i.e., the season that almost got it canceled.  That was still by far the s network's highest number of the night.  30 ROCK was misleadingly up from last week, which was an aberration caused by a program description that resulted in DVRs not picking up the episode; last night's 1.6 was in line with the other episodes this season (and slightly below recent episodes of Parks & Recreation, which it replaced for the night).  UP ALL NIGHT tied its Thursday low.  Perhaps the most pathetic news of the evening was that the meager 1.5 earned by a repeat of the post-Super Bowl VOICE at 10PM still marked almost double the rating Prime Suspect and The Firm had been doing in that slot.


FOX:  AMERICAN IDOL was up 0.2 to a 5.7 (losing again in its first half-hour to Big Bang Theory), still down more than 20% from the parallel night last year.  THE FINDER was down slightly, mired in 4th place for its hour.

CBS:  BIG BANG THEORY continued to win its half hour, dead even with the past 2 weeks.  ROB, too, has spent the past 4 weeks within a tiny range of 0.2 up or down.  This stability has been great for PERSON OF INTEREST and THE MENTALIST, which both tied their season highs--Mentalist won its hour, and Person was a strong 2d at 9PM.

ABC:  WIPEOUT hit a new season low, but after that the news improved.  GREY'S ANATOMY, back on track after the previous week's "alternate universe" episode, had its highest rating in more than a month, while PRIVATE PRACTICE was on the lower end of its numbers, but very stable.

CW:  VAMPIRE DIARIES' steady 1.2 put it in hailing distance of both NBC and ABC for the hour.  SECRET CIRCLE was up slightly to (for CW) a very strong 0.8.

No sweeps events tonight, just an evening of all-new episodes.  On Saturday, NBC repeats its entire Monday night line-up all over again, while ABC prepares for the return of Cougar Town with a mini-marathon after a Valentine's Day-themed Charlie Brown special.  And FOX gets into the holiday spirit, too, with America's Most Wanted:  Crimes of Passion Special Edition. 

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THURSDAY Ratings -- Early Results

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Two shows premiered last night, both on The CW.  Vampire Diaries returned to a 1.4 Adult 18-49 rating, while Secret Circle debuted at almost the same level (1.3 rating).  Last year Vampire Diaries debuted with a 1.6 rating, and we'll need to wait until next week to see if the Vampire Diaries can defend its 1.4 rating against all-original competition on the large networks.  See the updated ratings chart below.


THURSDAY FALL 2011  Estimates         Episode Rating     
                    May   Sep   #1   #2   #3   #4   #5   #6   Avg
ABC
 800 Charlie's Ang  2.3   2.2   9/22
 900 Grey's Anatomy 3.7   3.6   9/22
1000 Private Practi 2.6   2.5   9/29 
CBS
 800 Big Bang Theor 3.9   4.0   9/22
 830 How Gentleman  3.2   2.9   9/29
 900 Person Interest3.5   3.5   9/22
1000 Mentalist      3.3   3.3   9/22
NBC
 800 Community      1.9   1.9   9/22
 830 Parks & Rec    2.1   2.1   9/22
 900 The Office     3.1   3.0   9/22
 930 Whitney        2.6   2.4   9/22
1000 Prime Suspect  2.5   2.4   9/22
FOX
 800 X-Factor       3.4   3.4   9/22   
 900 Bones          2.5   2.5   11/3
CW
 800 Vampire Diar   n/a   n/a   1.4
 900 Secret Circle  n/a   n/a   1.3

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: The CW's "The Secret Circle"

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Disclaimer:  Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall.  Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot.  So these critiques shouldn't be taken as full reviews, but rather as a guide to the general style and content of the new shows coming your way.

THE SECRET CIRCLE -  Thursday 9PM on The CW:  If Nothing Else Is On...

Kevin Williamson has turned The Vampire Diaries into one of network TV's most effectively guilty pleasures, an intoxicating stew of vampires, werewolves, witches and all manner of ancient curses and devices.  The CW hasn't gone far afield in seeking a companion piece for their biggest hit, adapting another book series by L. J. Smith and placing Williamson again at the helm (this time with co-writer Andrew Miller).  At first glance, The Secret Circle is a somewhat dimmer shadow of Vampire, but it's still fairly diverting.


The mythology this time is more straightforward, at least for now.  It's basically The Craft as a TV show:  instead of ageless vamps moving to a small town, it's our suddenly orphaned heroine Cassie (Britt Robertson, another CW vet from Life Unexpected) who comes to Chance Harbor to move in with her grandmother.  By the time the pilot is over, Cassie's found out that her high school classmates are a coven of witches--and that she, naturally, is the most powerful of them all.  There's a mystery brewing about just what happened with the previous generation of witches, who were the parents of the current coven (but each is now a widow or widower), and what that elder generation is plotting now that Cassie's in town. 

Secret Circle is more teen-centric than Vampire (even though the frozen ages of the vampires semi-plausibly place them in or near high school, they've got adult sensibilities, and the show is able to do flashbacks set all over the world through the centuries), and it doesn't have the frisson of Ian Somerhalder's antihero gleefully murdering people half the time.  The teens (Thomas Dekker, Phoebe Tonkin, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Louis Hunter, Shelley Henig), too, are less quirky:  a couple of stereotypical mean girls, a class-president type, and some doe-eyed boys to be romantic interests.  In the pilot, Robertson is mostly wide-eyed, alternating between mystification and shock, but now that she knows who she is, her character may become more substantial.  The adults don't yet make much of an impression except for Gale Harold, who cuts a nicely villainous figure.  Liz Friedlander's direction (she's worked on Vampire) is capable, although the show doesn't gather much in the way of serious creepiness.

Notwithstanding Secret Circle's very tough Thursday 9PM slot, against Bones, The Office, Grey's Anatomy and the new Person of Interest, The CW is in a ratings world of its own--Mitch Metcalf doesn't include its numbers in his Thursday projection because the network's shows cater to the 18-34 young woman audience, rather than to adults 18-49.  It has the best possible lead-in with Vampire, so at the very least it will get sampled by its target demo and have some time to tell its story.  That will give it a chance to expand its reach, hopefully to include some of the narrative zigs and zags that have made its predecessor such fast-food TV fun.

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