FORMAT NOTE: As you see, we’ve added some new information to our daily ratings posts, with charts below by Mitch Metcalf showing not just the previous night’s 18-49 overnight ratings, but also the ratings for the parallel night one year ago. The results, in some cases, are pretty startling.
FOX: AMERICAN IDOL is now a show that routinely rates below a 4, as it was again at a Wednesday level it hadn’t seen since it started as a summer series. Last night was down 0.2 from last week to 3.7, but for FOX, the really scary part is that it was down 2 full ratings points from this time last year, a plummet of 35%.
CBS: SURVIVOR, although nothing like the blockbuster it once was, is holding up better in its senior years. It was down 0.1 from last week to 2.5, which was a 0.7 (roughly 20%) decline from this time in 2012. Reruns made up the rest of the night, 1.7/1.5 for CRIMINAL MINDS and CSI, the latter being enough to win the 10PM battle of the retreads.
ABC: The network let THE NEIGHBORS and SUBURGATORY fend for themselves last night, surrounded by reruns, and predictably the results weren’t good: twin 1.7s, which for Suburgatory was down half a ratings point from last week. Naturally the MODERN FAMILY rerun did best with a 2.0.
NBC: Those wishing for WHITNEY to make it to a Season 3 had reason to cheer, as the show rose 0.1 to 1.3–of course, the fact that ABC aired a rerun against it helped. It was down 0.3 (20%) from the same night last year. Later in the evening, the SVU rerun edged out the CHICAGO FIRE rerun, 1.1 to 1.0.
CW: A pair of 0.4s for ARROW/SUPERNATURAL reruns.
CBS (except for ELEMENTARY) and FOX are new tonight, with FOX unusually running past 10PM by starting GLEE at 9:30PM after an extended Idol. The other networks are in rerun, except that NBC is throwing new episodes of COMMUNITY and 1600 PENN to the wolves.
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