Friday, March 22, 2013 ratings — New episodes: Last Man Standing, Malibu Country, 20/20, Cult, Grimm, Fashion Star, Rock Center With Brian Williams, and Touch. Sports: NCAA Basketball Tournament. Specials: Target Presents the iHeartRadio Album Release Party with Justin Timberlake (rerun). Reruns: Kitchen Nightmares and Shark Tank.
ABC
8pm – Last Man Standing: 1.6 in the demo (+14% change) with 7.85 million.
8:30pm – Malibu Country: 1.4 in the demo (+27% change) with 7.00 million.
9pm – Shark Tank: (rerun) 1.4 in the demo with 5.75 million.
10pm – 20/20: 1.6 in the demo (+14% change) with 6.27 million.
CBS
8pm – NCAA Basketball Tournament: (sports) 1.0 in the demo with 3.67 million.
The CW:
8pm – iHeartRadio Album Release Party: (special, rerun) 0.4 in the demo with 1.16 million.
9pm – Cult: 0.2 in the demo (0% change) with 0.72 million.
FOX
8pm – Kitchen Nightmares: (rerun) 0.9 in the demo with 2.75 million.
9pm – Touch: 0.7 in the demo (+17% change) with 2.80 million.
NBC
8pm – Fashion Star: 0.7 in the demo (0% change) with 2.89 million.
9pm – Grimm: 1.4 in the demo (0% change) with 4.95 million.
10pm – Rock Center with Brian Williams: 0.9 in the demo (+50% change) with 3.87 million.
These are the fast affiliate ratings. The “demo” refers to the viewers in the 18-49 demographic. The percentages represent the change since the previous original episode. (Percentages aren’t given for reruns or specials.) “Million” refers to the total number of viewers.
To see past ratings for a particular show, click the show’s link. The show pages are updated with the daily final ratings when they become available. Those pages include percentage changes in both the demo and total viewership, in addition to season averages to date.
Here are the show season averages, grouped by network: ABC | CBS | CW | FOX | NBC
What were you watching last night? Original episodes, reruns, basketball, or something even better?
BOTH MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE ENJOYED THIS SHOW. PLEASE DO NOT CACCEL!
ELAINE
In Orlando Fl we only got to see the basket ball game on Friday. So maybe if ABC let us watch them their rating would not have been so low.
Once again one is amazed at the low-low ratings for shows that are supposed to be likely to come back like Grimm. Also as usual, way too much emphasis is put on the ageist demo numbers. The major networks are self-immolating on a pyre made of demo numbers. NBC and CW have been the most ardent Demo defenders (even going as far as pretending real ratings don’t matter and getting incompetent journalists to not publish them) and look where they are now… They are irrelevant to U.S. culture and the TV landscape. Only CBS, which for years has had to… Read more »