TV executives across the board are probably getting their resumes together as one of the most brutal Fall seasons ever continues its death march. Thursday saw more low ratings for new shows and double digit drop offs for others. NBC saw some reason to be happy as three of the four comedy shows from 8 to 10 did well, with only the new comedy Outsourced failing hard (shocker). The Apprentice held steady from last week which may sound like good news, and would be, had last week's ratings not been an anemic 1.3. This turkey is bound for Saturday stat. Jay Leno had better ratings than this mess. Incidentally, I watched and liked Celebrity Apprentice. I hated the non star version. Apparently, so did everyone else. CBS continues to shine with Big Bang Theory one of the top rated shows on TV. $%^& My Dad Says fell hard in its second week, dropping 20% and only holding onto 70% of Big Bang's audience. I was not one of the 70% as this show is terrible. Others thought so as well, after sampling last week's disaster, they decided to turn to 30 Rock which saw a slight uptick in the ratings. CBS' CSI continue to hemorrhage viewers as it's slide gets steeper and steeper. The show has sucked since William Peterson left. Time to kill this one time cash cow. The Mentalist, while down, was still number one at 10 versus a super weak line up from the Big Three.
ABC started the night with the soon to be cancelled My Generation, falling 31% from its premiere, to a WTF 1.1 rating. This looked DOA from the start. This helped bring the rest of the night down with the aging Grey's Anatomy and Why God Why Private Practice series, both way down from last year.
CW continues to do okay with Vampire Diaries and the super sexy Nikita.
Fox has problems with Bones and Fringe sliding, especially the later now getting just lower than a 2. They have also radically changed their line up after last week's horrific standings that moved them from number one to fourth place with a really weak fall line up. Lone Star's cancellation moved Lie to Me to that time slot, sent Human Target to the replacement bunker (now airing Nov 17th on Wednesday for now) and put shows like the Good Guys on notice, which is doing it's usual Friday Night Death ratings. The show is cute but won't be missed too much when it goes. I estimated by the end of October half of the new Fall season shows will be gone. Let the bloodbath continue.
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