Ratings News - 13th March 2014

Today's Early Overnight Ratings

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Early Ratings Analysis

The analysis below is based on the early household numbers and are NOT the same as the numbers that will be posted in the above table later. (See the About section below)

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Wednesday 3/12/14 Metered Market Ratings
Deteriorating “American Idol” Still Enough to Dominate

Household
Rating/Share
Fox 6.9/11
CBS 6.5/11
ABC 4.3/ 7
NBC 3.9/ 6
CW 0.8/ 1

-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Wednesday 3/13/13:
NBC: +50, ABC: +43, CBS: +27, Fox: -24, CW: -27

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-Winners:
“Survivor” (CBS), “Modern Family” (ABC), “Criminal Minds” (CBS), “CSI” (CBS)

-Down But Not Out…Yet:
“American Idol” (Fox)

-Sluggish:
“Suburgatory” (ABC), “Nashville” (ABC)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
“Revolution” (NBC), “Mixology” (ABC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
Fox led the Wednesday overnights once again, but its advantage over second-place CBS was only four-tenths of a rating point. And a 6.9 rating/11 share in households for “American Idol” from 8-10 p.m. was 24 percent below the 9.1/15 on the year-ago evening.

On CBS, “Survivor” was close to year-ago levels with a second-place 5.9/10 from 8-9 p.m. And it led into dominant performances for “Criminal Minds” (7.1/11) and “CSI” (6.4/11) from 9-11 p.m. That said, there is every reason to believe Wednesday on CBS will remain intact next season. While I won’t give anything away from “Survivor” last night, I will say that the player most deserving to become sole survivor does now thankfully have a greater chance to succeed.

ABC, unfortunately, continues to squander the lead-in support from “The Middle” and “Modern Family.” “Suburgatory” scored a third-place 3.8/ 6 at 8:30 p.m., which was 25 percent below reliable lead-in “The Middle” (#3: 5.1/ 8). And week three of “Mixology” at 9:30 p.m. did not improve with a fourth-place 3.2/ 5, which was 51 percent below lead-in “Modern Family” (#3: 6.5/10) and was no better than recent failed occupant “Super Fun Night.” While “Modern Family” will have no trouble winning its time period in the key demographics, the multi-honored sitcom is not living up to the accolades this season. Last night’s installment “jumped the shark” for this viewer.

“Nashville” on ABC closed the night at a third-place 3.5/ 6 at 10 p.m., which trailed second-place “Chicago PD” on NBC (4.0/ 6) by 12 percent. But given the network’s more pressing concerns for its crop of freshman dramas this season (excluding “Resurrection” and “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” of course), there is every reason to believe that “Nashville” will be back next season.

Earlier in the evening on NBC was on-the-fence “Revolution” (#4: 3.4/ 6 at 8 p.m.), which is 50-50 on returning next season, followed by veteran “Law & Order: SVU” at a fourth-place 4.4/ 7 from 9-10 p.m. And The CW populated the evening with encores of dramas “Arrow” (#5: 1.0/ 2) and expected-to-be canceled “The Tomorrow People” (#5: 0.7/ 1).

Source:

Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

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