RATINGS RECAP: 12/17/12

ABC
8:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Viewers: 4.2 million, 18-49 demo: 1.0
9:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Viewers: 4.7 million, 18-49 demo: 1.2
10:00 Castle (Repeat)
Viewers: 5.2 million, 18-49 demo: 1.1

CBS
8:00 How I Met Your Mother
Viewers: 8.7 million, 18-49 demo: 3.4
9:00 2 Broke Girls
Viewers: 10.2 million, 18-49 demo: 3.5
9:30 Mike & Molly
Viewers: 10.8 million, 18-49 demo: 3.3
10:00 Hawaii Five-0
Viewers: 10.5 million, 18-49 demo: 2.4

NBC
8:00 The Voice
Viewers: 13.4 million, 18-49 demo: 4.2
9:30 1600 Penn
Viewers: 6.9 million, 18-49 demo: 2.2
10:00 Take it All
Viewers: 4.5 million, 18-49 demo: 1.5

FOX
8:00 Dreamworks Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
Viewers: 3.9 million, 18-49 demo: 1.5
8:30 Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
Viewers: 4.0 million, 18-49 demo: 1.5
9:00 Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown
Viewers: 2.6 million, 18-49 demo: 0.9

On Monday night, NBC had the final performance night of The Voice. It was up 1.1 million viewers and four tenths in the demo. The good news is that its barely below where it was at the beginning of the season and it never saw the big drops it saw in its first two editions. It was followed by a sneak preview of upcoming Thursday comedy 1600 Penn. Given the huge lead-in, the sampling was pretty weak and now it will air on a night that NBC has major difficulty. I don't think the outlook is great for this show when it joins the regular schedule on January 10. At 10pm, the final night of Take it All was slightly up from the weaker nights at the end of last week.

On CBS, a one hour episode of How I Met Your Mother was down a tenth in viewers but up two tenths in the demo for its best demo performance since the season premiere. At 9pm, 2 Broke Girls was down eight tenths in viewers and two tenths in the demo from last week's 9pm episode. It had a slightly better lead-in this week but seems to do best when it has The Big Bang Theory as a lead-in. At 9:30pm, Mike & Molly was up six tenths in viewers and two tenths in the demo from its last airing two weeks ago. To round off the night, Hawaii Five-0 was up seven tenths in viewers but down a tenth in the demo. ABC mailed it in with the fourth week of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition specials which haven't done well at all.

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