As of Halloween, This Season's TV Ratings Are So Low It's Scary

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It is the middle of the fall, when the leaves turn brown and die, as so do the sitcoms.

This has been a notably bad year for new broadcast TV—multiple networks are watching all but one of their new series decompose rapidly while legacy shows hemorrhage viewers to the perpetual menaces of cable, video games, online content and *shudder* talking to family members. Below we've broken down where each network stands.

Oh, and we're not going to do a full analysis of The CW, but both their new shows, Flash and Jane the Virgin, are A) fun and B) doing great.

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