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RATINGS RECAP: 10/27/14

ABC
8:00 Dancing with the Stars
Viewers: 12.6 million, 18-49 demo: 1.9
10:00 Castle
Viewers: 8.8 million, 18-49 demo: 1.6

CBS
8:00 2 Broke Girls
Viewers: 8.4 million, 18-49 demo: 2.4
8:30 The Millers
Viewers: 6.9 million, 18-49 demo: 1.7
9:00 Scorpion
Viewers: 10.4 million, 18-49 demo: 2.3
10:00 NCIS: Los Angeles
Viewers: 8.7 million, 18-49 demo: 1.6

NBC
8:00 The Voice
Viewers: 12.5 million, 18-49 demo: 3.7
10:00 The Blacklist
Viewers: 9.6 million, 18-49 demo: 2.5

FOX
8:00 Gotham
Viewers: 5.9 million, 18-49 demo: 2.2
9:00 Sleepy Hollow
Viewers: 4.6 million, 18-49 demo: 1.6

On a night where ESPN's Monday Night Football delivered its best viewership since 2010 and best demo since 2011, the broadcast networks held up pretty well. CBS had the season premiere of 2 Broke Girls at 8pm. While it was understandably down big from what The Big Bang Theory was getting recently, it topped anything it was doing in the spring. I think this was actually a very solid performance for a show that many think can't lead things off at 8pm. The bigger problem was at 8:30pm where The Millers fell 2 million viewers and four tenths in the demo. Of course, the lead-in was way down but its retention out of Girls was pretty bad in an of itself. It's hard to imagine CBS keeping this here when they have a show like Mike & Molly on the bench. At 9pm, Scorpion was barely affected by the increasingly bad lead-in so that's a great thing. It was down just four tenths in viewers and a tenth in the demo. NCIS: Los Angeles closed things out down a tenth in viewers and the demo to tie series lows.

NBC was on the upswing with The Voice up six tenths in viewers and three tenths in the demo and The Blacklist up three tenths in viewers and a tenth in the demo. On ABC, Dancing with the Stars was even in viewers and down a tenth in the demo while Castle was even in viewers and up a tenth in the demo. I don't know what happened to Castle these last couple weeks. Finally, FOX had Gotham down two tenths in viewers and a tenth in the demo. While its only going down slightly every week, it is a problem that it's still going down six weeks in. At 9pm, Sleepy Hollow was down four tenths in viewers and two tenths in the demo for a new series low.

WINNER OF THE NIGHT: 2 Broke Girls (CBS)
LOSER OF THE NIGHT: The Millers (CBS)
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