After a two month-long forced hiatus from ABC, critically-acclaimed sitcom Happy Endings returned to the airwaves Friday night with two back-to-back episodes. The ratings on those episodes were just as low as you'd expect from a show that's been moved around and taken off the schedule for months now. The episodes drew a 0.9 and a 0.7 rating, respectively, with adults 18-49 and 3 million and 2.4 million total viewers. Those are low scores, but Friday night, dubbed the "Friday Night Death Slot," is typically an underwatched night in TV and it's probably hard for fans of Happy Endings to keep track of when the show's on at [...]
Last night's super funny and sweet Ben and Leslie wedding episode of Parks and Recreation and the Inspector Spacetime convention episode of Community failed to draw in more viewers – in fact, they each hit series lows. Parks got a 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.03 million viewers overall, and the show's second new episode got a 1.4 and 2.91 million. Community received a 1.1 rating and 3.8 million overall viewers.
While the continued low ratings are bad news for these shows, the network they're airing on isn't doing much better. For the February "sweeps" period – which stations use to score high ratings so they [...]
Community made the tiniest of improvements over its Season 3 premiere with its Season 4 premiere last night. The show scored a 1.8 rating amongst adults 18-49, improving over last year's premiere (1.7) and finale (1.3). The rating also beat 30 Rock's season premiere (1.4) and season average (1.3) in the same timeslot. Community also boosted Parks and Recreation's ratings, which followed it at 8:30 and scored its season best 18-49 ratings (2.0). Of course, this all pales in comparison to the ratings Big Bang Theory pulled in last night (6.1), so hold off on celebrating/complaining about Community's slight ratings improvement (depending on whether you liked/hated last night's premiere).
The past couple seasons have seen ABC's sitcom Happy Endings emerge as one of the best comedies on network TV, but unfortunately, the show's ratings have taken a hit this year after the network scheduled it on the busiest comedy night of the season by putting it head-to-head with hits like Fox's New Girl and NBC's Go On. ABC started airing extra episodes of Happy Endings and Don't Trust the B at 10pm on Sundays this week (in addition to their regular Tuesday slot) to burn off the remaining episodes to clear the Tuesday timeslot for Dancing with the Stars' return in late March. The first Sunday episode aired this [...]
The latest episode of Saturday Night Live, with host Louis C.K. and musical guest fun, earned the second-highest overnight ratings of the season so far, with a 3.0 rating and 13 share in the 18-49 demo in metered-market households. It was the #1 show of the night in metered markets, beating all the primetime shows for ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and yes, even The CW. Ratings for New York are not included in these numbers because of Hurricane Sandy-related issues. The C.K.-hosted pre-election show was #2 for SNL this season, only beat by the Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Mumford & Sons episode. If Louis C.K. wants to have the highest-rated episode of the [...]
