Today's Early Overnight Ratings
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Early Ratings Analysis
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Metered Market Tuesday Ratings
CBS Wins; Soft Start for the Eye Net’s “Golden Boy”
Tuesday 2/26/13
Household
Rating/Share
CBS 10.1/16
ABC 4.3/ 7
Fox 2.8/ 4
NBC 2.5/ 4
CW 0.9/ 1
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-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Tuesday 2/28/12:
ABC: +13, CBS: + 6, CW: no change, NBC: -34, Fox: -74
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-Winners:
“NCIS” (CBS), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (CBS)
-Honorable Mention:
“Celebrity Wife Swap” (ABC)
-Disappointing:
“Golden Boy” (CBS)
-Losers:
“Betty White’s Off Their Rockers” (NBC), “Raising Hope” (Fox), “Hart of Dixie” (CW), “Go On” (NBC), “The New Normal” (NBC), “The Mindy Project” (Fox), “Cult” (CW), “Smash” (NBC)
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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was an easy Tuesday overnight victory for CBS, which actually beat ABC, NBC and Fox combined. “NCIS,” as always, was the top-rated show of the evening with a 12.8 rating/20 share (+ 9 percent from the year-ago evening). And it led into spin-off “NCIS: Los Angeles” at a compatible (and very dominant) 10.5/16 at 9 p.m. Will CBS break up the two next season to potentially make room for the “NCIS: Los Angeles” spin-off at 9 p.m.? Stay tuned.
In series-premiere news, new CBS crime solver “Golden Boy” won the 10 p.m. hour with a 6.9/12, which outdelivered No. 2 “Body of Proof” on ABC (4.7/ 8) by 47 percent. And it was on par with year-ago time period occupant “Unforgettable.” But “Golden Boy” opened 27 percent below the debut of regularly scheduled “Vegas” (9.4/16 on 9/25/12). It slipped by 12 percent in household rating in the second half-hour (7.4/12 to 6.5/12). And retention for “Golden Boy” out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of “NCIS: Los Angeles” (10.3/16) was modest at 67 percent. All things considered, this is a disappointing debut for not so “Golden Boy.”
“Golden Boy” will have one more preview in the Tuesday 10 p.m. hour next week, and it moves into its regularly scheduled Friday 9 p.m. hour (out of “Undercover Boss” and into “Blue Bloods”) on March 8. Is it just me, or are all these generic CBS crime solvers beginning to wear thin?
In season-premiere news, “Celebrity Wife Swap” on ABC, featuring Kate Gosselin and Kendra Wilkinson trading households for one week, opened second in the 8 p.m. hour with a respectable 5.3/ 8. Comparably, this beat the year-ago combination of “Last Man Standing” (4.6/ 7 on 2/28/12) and “Cougar Town” (3.1/ 5) by an average of 38 percent. And it was up by 39 percent from “The Taste” in the week-ago time period (3.8/ 6 on Feb. 19).
Next was sluggish “The Taste,” which now airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET, at a 3.1/ 5 (#2), followed by aforementioned older-skewing “Body of Proof” at a second-place 4.7/ 8 at 10 p.m. Retention for “The Taste” out of the 8:30 p.m. portion of “Celebrity Wife Swap” (5.2/ 8) was weak at 62 percent.
In week two news, CW drama “Cult” dipped by 12 percent from its already DOA debut, with a mere 0.7/ 1 in the overnights at 9 p.m. And the 0.8/ 1 one week earlier translated into 860,000 viewers and a 0.3 rating/1 share among adults 18-49 (based on the Live Plus Same Day data). Retention for “Cult” out of 8:30 p.m. portion of on-the-fence lead-in “Hart of Dixie” (1.1/ 2), meanwhile, was 64 percent. Tick, tock…the cancellation clock is ticking.
Overall, “Hart of Dixie” averaged a weak 1.2/ 2 (#5) in the overnights from 8-9 p.m.
Over at Fox, a one-hour edition of “Raising Hope” did not resonate with a fourth-place 2.6/ 4 from 8-9 p.m. And it led into diluted “New Girl” (#2: 3.5/ 5), which always picks up noticeable steam in the young adult demos, and freshman “The Mindy Project” (#3: 2.5/ 4), which is not worthy of a second season.
Fourth-place NBC was virtually off the charts with its weak combination of two episodes (original and repeat) of “Betty White’s Off Their Rockers” (8 p.m.: #3, 2.9/ 5; 8:30 p.m.: #3, 2.6/ 4), “Go On” (#4: 2.3/ 4), “The New Normal” (#4: 2.2/ 4) and “Smash” (#3: 2.6/ 5). Minus the lead-in support from “The Voice,” “Go On” is a shell of its former delivery.
Source: Nielsen Media Research
Source: Marc Berman@tvmediainsights
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