Sluggish Debuts for Bad Teacher, Black Box

As season winds down, 2 new shows stumble

With just a month to go before the 2013-14 broadcast TV season slinks off into the murk of history, the networks on Thursday night launched a pair of last-gasp series. As one may well expect from a couple of shows that were reserved for a late-April premiere, the results were unspectacular.

According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, CBS’ refresh of the 2011 theatrical Bad Teacher generated a fair amount of sampling, delivering 7.80 million viewers and a 2.1

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