Wednesday Ratings: Old Shows Soar/ New Shows Plummet

In a big I told you so moment, every show I listed in my Why God Why article of bad programming has missed the mark completely while old favorites like Survivor on a new night roared to life. CBS was the big winner with Survivor dominating the 8 PM slot, Modern Family running wild at 9, with CBS's Criminal Minds a solid second and SVU winning the ten o'clock slot. All the shows I like and watch did well. What didn't? Anything new. Shocker. JJ Abrams new show Undercover tanked at 8, and from the reviews I hear it's pretty much Alias lite. The Defenders did better than I thought with a 2.9 but let's see how it stacks up against the Law And Order spin off that debuts next week. ABC's new comedy Better Than You did okay with a 2.5 share and Cougar Town dropped hard with a 3.3, losing 2/3rds of the Modern Family audience. The fact the Jennifer Aniston was guest starring may mean that America has had it with her. It's too bad because she is very hot and talented but her star is fading fast with a rash of really horrible movies. Maybe you should be looking into either a new TV show or a movie you get naked in. Trust me nudity can save a career. But is it too little too late like Meg Ryan? She took off her clothes in a crap movie and the world went yawn so what. But then again Halle Berry got naked and won an Oscar. Pick better movies Jen. You can afford to be picky. The biggest loser however was not Cougar Town but a new ABC show The Whole Truth which debuted at an anemic 1.5. Two lawyer show competing against one another in the same time slot is suicide. In this case people would rather watch Defenders, another horrible show than The Whole Truth which does somehow looks worse despite the fact I like Maura Tierney and Ron Morrow more than Belushi and O'Connell. This show is on life support. It'll be gone in the next few weeks. Fox scored big with Hell's Kitchen which gained viewers as the night went on, finishing second for the coveted 18-49 viewership. CW was flat but steady with ANTM and Hellcats.
What show will be the first to be cancelled? It's a tight race between the Whole Truth and Lone Star. I;m putting my money on Lone Star just because Fox will cancel anything quickly with that kind of rating.