The Programming Insider: Tuesday 4/19/11

Prime-Time Metered Market Monday Ratings: ABC Dances to Victory; Heavy Tune-Out for Cougar Town Return on ABC Monday 4/18/11 Note: The overnight data now includes DVR playback until 3 a.m. local time. One year earlier it was based on Live data only. All times are ET/PT. Household Rating/Share - ABC: 9.9/16, CBS: 5.6/ 9, Fox: 5.0/ 8, NBC: 3.2/ 5, CW: 1.2/ 2. Note: Comparisons to the year-ago evening are not available today. Yesterday’s Winners: Dancing With the Stars (ABC), Mike & Molly (CBS), Hawaii Five-O (CBS) Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats): Chuck (NBC), Mad Love (CBS), 90210 (CW), The Event (NBC), Cougar Town (ABC), Gossip Girl (CW), Law & Order: Los Angeles (NBC). Note: The fast affiliate results for Monday will be posted at PIFeedback by 12 p.m. ET. Go to the website, click on Ratings Box (the first category), then Last Night’s Results, and Monday, April 18, 2011. Ratings Breakdown: It was another overnight Monday victory for ABC thanks to megasensation Dancing With the Stars. Comparably, ABC bested second place CBS by 77 percent. Third overall was Fox, followed by lowly NBC and The CW, which finally aired a Monday of original telecasts. Dancing With the Stars averaged a very dominant 13.8 rating/21 share in the overnights from 8-9:30 p.m., building by half hour as follows: 12.6/20 – 13.7/21 – 15.1/23. Next on ABC was the return of Cougar Town, which dipped to a second place 5.9/ 9 at 9:30 p.m. -- 61 percent below the 9:00 p.m. portion of Dancing With the Stars. While posters at PIFeedback are strong supporters of Cougar Town, which returns to the Wednesday 9:30 p.m. half hour tomorrow, the ratings are not a reflection of it. ABC capped off the evening with a special edition of 20/20 - William and Catherine: A Modern Fairytale at a second place 6.0/10 in the overnights at 10 p.m. Over at CBS, the weak Monday link remains with recently introduced Mad Love, which finished third in the 8:30 p.m. half hour with a 3.8/ 6. Comparably, and despite the higher HUT level, that was 21 percent below head-in How I Met Your Mother (#3: 4.8/ 8 at 8 p.m.). The absence of original episodes of Two and a Half Men remains a sore-spot, with a second place 4.8/ 7 at 9 p.m., but an original installment of leadout Mike & Molly perked up to a dominant 6.5/10 at 9:30 p.m. Comparably, that beat ABC’s competing Cougar Town by 10 percent. At 10 p.m., sure-to-be returning Hawaii Five-O finished first on the Eye net with a 7.0/12 in the overnights. Fox had nothing unusual to report on this third Monday in April with its combination of House (#2: 5.7/ 9), which is certainly not the force it once was, and on-the-fence freshman crime drama The Chicago Code (#3: 4.4/ 7). NBC, meanwhile, had three losers last night: Chuck (#4: 3.0/ 5), The Event (#4: 2.8/ 4), and Law & Order: Los Angeles (#3: 3.9/ 7). And the long-awaited return of original episodes of 90210 (#5: 1.4/ 2) and Gossip Girl (#5: 1.1/ 2) on The CW were barely visible. While I do understand who The CW”s target audience is, young females, overnights this low will certainly not translate well. Source: Nielsen Media Research data Ratings Box: The debut of Disney Channel made-for Lemonade Mouth ranks as the most watched original movie of 2011 to date with 5.7 million viewers in the Friday 8-9:55 p.m. block. Lemonade Mouth also finished first overall for the evening in target kids 6-11 (2.3 million) and tweens 9-14 (2.1 million), outperforming competing Nickelodeon by as much as 263 percent in tweens 9-14 and nearly doubling the No. 2 cable network, Syfy, in total viewers (5.7 million vs. 3.0 million). Compared to the year-ago time period, Lemonade Mouth built by 97 percent in total viewers (5.7 million vs. 2.9 million), 64 percent in kids 2-11 (2.3 million vs. 1.4 million), and 91 percent in tweens 9-14 (2.1 million vs. 1.1 million). The Lemonade Mouth soundtrack, released by Walt Disney Records on April 12, rose to No. 1 on the iTunes Soundtrack chart and ranks as the No. 4 album overall. Hit songs “Somebody,” “Determinate," and “Don't Ya Wish U Were Us” rank in the Radio Disney Top 30. Source: Nielsen Media Research data On the Air Tonight: ABC -8:00 p.m. Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, 9:00 p.m. Dancing With the Stars Live Results Show, 10:00 p.m. Body of Proof CBS - 8:00 p.m. NCIS (R), 9:00 p.m. NCIS: Los Angeles (R), 10:00 p.m. The Good Wife (R) NBC - 8:00 p.m. The Biggest Loser: Couples (two hours), 10:00 p.m. Parenthood (season or series finale) Fox - 8:00 p.m. Glee, 9:00 p.m. Raising Hope, 9:30 p.m. Traffic Light CW - 8:00 p.m. One Tree Hill, 9:00 p.m. Hellcats (R) TV Tidbits: CBS has yanked recently introduced Friday 8 p.m. spy drama Chaos off the schedule after just three episodes. Last Friday’s episode averaged 5.68 million viewers with a mere 1.0 rating/3 share among adults 18-49. There is no word at present what will replace it. Canceled Fox sitcom Running Wilde, which failed to generate any interest out of Raising Hope earlier this season, is heading to FX. The cable net will air the final four episodes in the Thursday 10 p.m. half hour beginning on April 28. TV Land, the rising home of original sitcoms, has announced a spinoff from Hot in Cleveland, which will return on June 15 with the next batch of 10 episodes from season two. The spinoff will revolve around the character of a minister played by comedian Cedric the Entertainer who finds himself comically involved in the characters played by Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick, and Betty White. Hot in Cleveland creator Suzanne Martin will also executive produce this project. The new Cedric sitcom is expected to launch later in the year. Also coming up at TV Land are sitcoms Happily Divorced with Fran Drescher; The Exes with Donald Faison, Wayne Knight, David Alan Basche and Kristen Johnston; and a second season of Retired at 35. A Classic Animated Pair Returns: Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are back in The Looney Tunes Show on Cartoon Network, which debuts on Tuesday, May 3 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Other classic animated characters returning are Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzalez, Yosemite Sam, the Tasmanian Devil, Pepe Le Pew, Tweety, and Sylvester. Executive Shuffle: SmashPoint Creative Works chairman Maury Povich has announced the appointment of Ellen Davis to creative director at SmashPoint Creative Works. Davis will oversee all On Air Promotions for NBC Universal’s Maury, The Jerry Springer Show, and The Steve Wilkos Show. Most recently, Davis was a freelance promotion director at Fox News and Verizon Fios1 News. TV Trivia: Which one of the following options was not the real title of a TV series? a) The Fall Guy b) Raines c) The Shelley Winters Show d) Summerland e) Thunder Alley Please email your answers here. The answer to yesterday’s question… What was the first name of the housekeeper Mr. Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes hired after Mrs. Garrett left to work at Eastland on spinoff The Facts of Life? a) Adelaide b) Charlene c) Glenda d) Molly e) Pearl ...is: a) Adelaide. After Adelaide left, Pearl arrived. Current kudos goes to Steve Albright, Gerry Bixenspan, Larry Collins (2x), Maureen Goldman, Amy Horowitz, Bob Ingersoll, Kevin Jones, Synda Kollman, Joel Kunkel, Steven Kurtzer, Rick Locke, Lisa Menin, Greg Phelan, Gordon Purcell, Colleen Roth, Lindsay Rothman, Ronnie Tallant, Linda Weeks, Myndi Weinraub, Jeanne Yonkers

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