Mob Doctors (Fox) — 3.96 million viewers; 1.3 in the demo. This show is dead on arrival and may be the first cancellation of the season.
Animal Practice (NBC) — 5.1 million viewers; 1.4 in the demo. Slightly better than the Thursday night sitcoms, but not a good premiere number, either. In the demo, it’s not much better than Free Agents debuted with last season, and that show was canceled after three episodes. Poor Justin Kirk.
Guys with Kids (NBC) — 4.7 million viewers; 1.6 in the demo. Jimmy Fallon failed to bring in an audience for this. Any other network, and it’d be canceled in a matter of weeks. It may stick around for a couple of months because this is NBC.
Somewhere in Between
New Girl (Fox) — 5.3 million viewers; 2.7 in the demo. Those numbers are significantly down from its premiere last season, but I have to think that the ratings will be much, much higher once time shifting is accounted for. The 2.7 is decent, but the 5.3 million viewers is much less than Go On. New Girl also received a 2.7 in the demo for its second episode of the night.
Ben and Kate (Fox) — 4.19 million viewers; 2.0 in the demo. A drop in viewers and in the demo following its New Girl lead-in. Will Fox let Ben and Kate find an audience? It’s probably on a short leash.
The New Normal (NBC) — 5.24 million viewers; 2.0 in the demo. Over on NBC, this would normally be a solid number, but it’s quite a bit down from its Go On lead in, so they’re probably fairly disappointed.
The Mindy Project (Fox) — 4.73 million viewers; 2.4 in the demo. I didn’t love the show, but I expected much more in the ratings department, but I also think this one will cultivate an audience, especially once the New Girl viewers return.
The Neighbors (ABC) — 9.2 million viewers; 3.3 in the demo. Those are huge numbers for any sitcom on the networks, EXCEPT the one following the Modern Family juggernaut. Down 5 million viewers from its lead-in, and I expect it will only get worse now that people have actually seen the show.
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After Parks and Rec gets cancelled I think it will be time for me to abandon network TV outside of live sports. At least there’s still FX.
You’ll actually notice yourself becoming smarter, once you abandon network televition altogether.
What’s the DVR ratings like for Parks and Rec? Or the Hulu ratings? I think we should re-watch the episodes on Hulu, because A.) the ratings would be better and B.) It’s totally worth re-watching.
“Pig-Tom” still slays me.
I don’t think I laughed once during Modern Family last night, too much Manny. I think at this point the writers are going to jam that little bastard down our throats just for spite.
For some reason I kept getting flashbacks to the “photo montage” ending of Lethal Weapon 4 during last night’s episode.
Its like they somehow managed to make The Worst even worse. When they did the time jump with the baby and switched her out with a little girl they had the perfect opportunity to replace Manny. Those bastards.
Sigh. Why don’t you like good TV, America? Anyway, that Fox Tuesday lineup is pretty great. Never been a fan of Kaling at all, but her show was pretty decent, and the other two are excellent.
Phil is the only funny character left on Modern Family. Manny is still the worst.
Those P&R rating are depressing
The season premiere had me screaming for Manny to be devoured by Stella. I just can’t take his schtick anymore. And are we stuck with an entire season of Dylan? Because I’ll stop watching.
I still like Julie Bowen’s character… but, yeah, maybe they could have Manny injured in a bike accident or abducted by The Second Mile or something.
I like Julie Bowen, but Claire’s comments last night about Gloria getting fat while pregnant really turned me off. I like Claire’s superiority and jealousy sometimes but she doesn’t have to be nasty all the time. I guess the writers disagree with me.
I suspect the writers are targeting all the female viewers who are also jealous of the only reason left for us husbands to watch Everybody Hates Manny and Lily.
By the way, I saw Julie Bowen in some 90′s movie and she looked really good–not like a skeleton with great teeth.
Happy gilmore? She looks good in lingerie.
I never made the happy gilmore connection. Hell yes Julie was hot. Manny is just awful.
Private Parts? I like Bowen’s character, Phil and Al Bundy.
@Dustin: I think you’re looking for the adverb form, “desultorily.”
I’ve enjoyed The New Normal so far. Except I think they’re laying the Ellen Barkin character on a little too thick.
She is a horrible Lucille Bluth ripoff.
Also, to hell with Justin Kirk and his stupid face and his stupid show.
/why such vitriol? Did he steal my girlfriend or something?
He was consistently amusing on Weeds, but that monkey show seems like someone’s cashing in a studio-owed favor.
Not that “Mindy” is destination viewing for me, but perhaps the reason that no one watched it is that anyone even vaguely curious about the show watched it online or On Demand weeks ago.
I really liked Ben and Kate. Vegas was interesting enough. I still loathe New Normal.
And I forced myself to watch all 30 minutes of The Neighbors last night. So much pain.
The Neighbors was beyond terrible. I know they’re trying to recreate the “old type” sitcom (Honeymooners, etc.) but man, you gotta give me more than an Asian kid named Jackie Robinson.
Would you settle for a black kid named Jefferson Wong? ‘Cause I bet if you asked nicely, little Jackie would have a new best friend.
What sport did Jefferson Wong play?
(loathes self for knowing too much about this show already)
With everything new this week. I completely forgot about Parks & Rec
( Damn me for contributing to those bad numbers
that was a sad face lol
I think part of the reason the numbers for the NBC Thursday comedies were so low was that no one knew the premieres were last week. I talked to a bunch of people that watch The Office and Parks and Rec and they all missed it because they had no idea the new seasons were starting, they thought it was another week on re-runs. I didn’t even know about them until roughly 2-3 hours before and I only figured that out because I was curious when they were coming back and I checked the my DVR scheduling and saw they were returning that night.
I saw ZERO advertisements for the premieres on the web and ZERO ads on any other station. It seems like they were only touting the returns on NBC and let’s face it, nobody watches NBC.
I only knew there were new episodes last week because of the P&R twitter and facebook accounts
outside of manny, modern family was hilarious last nite.
Those numbers are disappointing, but expected.
Zooey Deschanel annoys me to no limit.
I blame the writers for Manny…it’s really hard for a 12-year-old actor to deliver lines that sound like they should be spoken by an English professor.
That being said, I though it was really funny. I’ve always been a Modern Family apologist, but I did notice an improvement. I even laughed at the really obvious gags.
I agree those are not great numbers for Parks and Rec, but they’re on par with how the show was performing all of last spring, so they shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Also, total viewers don’t matter. The only thing that matters is the demo and while 1.7 would get a show cancelled on most networks, it’s pretty respectable by NBC standards. Animal Practice and Guys with Kids, which NBC promoted the hell out of all summer and are supposed to represent the new era of “broad” comedies on the network, fared even worse. Lastly, I don’t buy that NBC has found some kind of magic formula with Go On. It’s doing as well as it has is because it’s airing after The Voice. Move it to Thursdays or let it fend for itself on Wednesdays at 8 and let’s see how well it does.
I just can’t wait for the Modern Family Target-episode sequel!
Hey Dustin, what do you think of Sarah Hyland’s appearance these days? Please do tell.
Beard Phil is the best Phil.
Interesting…tell me more.
I think NBC did a poor job of letting people know the new season was starting last week.
Also, Mindy needs to become more likeable if that show is going to do anything. She seemed like a terrible person.
Yeah, I like Up All Night and Parks and Rec, but I had no idea they were debuting last week. I caught them by pure happenstance, and it was an enjoyable surprise. But enjoyable surprises is not the ideal way to promote a new season.
Holy Shit was The Neighbors aweful. I’ve (something something something) more funny than that show.
Sigh. No mention of Castle?
Will any Emmy voters ever notice Stana Katic and the great performances she puts in on this show?