Fox scores weekly win in demos

Four several hours of "The The American Idol Show ShowInch moved Fox with a primetime demo victory the other day, nevertheless the franchise's declines -- along with nothing-special results elsewhere round the network's sked -- have brought to substantial year-to-year falloffs. The other day, a significant clean one with no major sports or honours shows, saw Fox fall 17% below its youthful-adult performance inside the same frame this past year, according to Nielsen. ABC and CBS matched up up their shipping of a year ago, while NBC elevated by 17% but nevertheless finished a tick behind the next-place Alphabet. Due to its part, "The The American Idol Show ShowInch remains a huge, but it is seeing its finest challenges since becoming TV's No. 1 series nearly about 10 years ago. In grownups 18-49, it's being assigned mind-to-mind in one of the regular half-several hours (Thursday by CBS' "The Big Bang Theory"), too as with the weekly program rankings, its top evening (Wednesday) is neck-and-neck with NBC's "The Voice" on Monday. (The other day, "Idol" finished slightly ahead since the No. 1 show.) Also, CBS' Tuesday vet "NCIS" remains drawing more total audiences than "Idol." Overall the other day, Fox's 2.9 rating/8 participate grownups 18-49 outshine CBS (2.5/7), with ABC (2./6) and NBC (1.9/5) further back. Twelve several weeks ago, Fox introduced with an entire ratings point over CBS (3.5 to 2.5) and ABC stood a bigger advantage on NBC (2. to a single.6). Also the other day, Fox edged CBS in 25-54 (3.5 to 3.4) while CBS cruised in general audiences (10.9 million to eight.7 million), "The The American Idol Show ShowInch centered its two several hours Wednesday (6.1/16 in 18-49, 18.89 million audiences overall), on componen while using previous 2 days. Even though it shipped on Thursday (5.1/14, 16.71m), it easily won three of the four half-several hours. Round the scripted side, Fox not successful to win any half-several hours, coming nearest Tuesday with "New Girl" (3.1/8, 6.47m) the 500th episode of "The Simpsons" went third Sunday (2.6/7, 5.77m). CBS saw achievement due to its way of leaving its returning reality shows inside the same week: "Survivor" will be a solid second to "Idol" on Wednesday (3.1/9, 10.79m) "Undercover Boss" stood a remarkably strong come from its new Friday leadoff slot (2.4/8, 10.78m), bagging the most effective demo score for nearly any Friday series on any internet this season as well as the 20th edition of "The Astounding Race" (2.8/7, 10.34m) was up 12% from a year ago. Also, "NCIS" (3.9/11, 19.59m) and "The Big Bang Theory" (5.1/15, 15.65m) were the week's No. 1 drama and comedy, correspondingly, in 18-49, 25-54 and total audiences. ABC saw "Modern Family" (4.7/12, 11.23m) and "Grey's Anatomy" (3.2/8, 8.31m) decline opposite atypical competish from "The The American Idol Show Show,Inch but a crossover story with "Grey's" lead-out "Private Practice" produced above-average amounts for the Thursday 10 p.m. show (2.6/7, 7.08m). On Sunday, "Not such a long time ago" introduced its hour in demos (3.1/8, 9.84m) but "Pan Am" stood a soft landing towards the season (1.2/3, 3.77m). For NBC, Monday ongoing to stay in the corner due to "The Voice" (6./15, 16.28m), lower just 10% in the large bow. "Smash" adopted with declines within the second episode (2.8/7, 8.06m) after which it fell further on Monday each week (2.3/6, 6.47m). Still, it's emerged since the finest-indexing broadcast drama among trendy audiences. And also on Sunday, "Celebrity Apprentice" (2.6/6, 7.42m) opened up up just a little under a year ago but introduced its second hour in key demos. CW stood a strong Thursday with "The Vampire Journals" (1.3/4 in 18-49, 3.08m) and "The Important Thing Circle" (.8/2, 1.82m), while using latter up week to week. Nevertheless the internet is constantly struggle overall, which is Wednesday unscripted series "Refurbished" came just 460,000 audiences too as with the mark demo of grownups 18-34, its .2 rating ranked behind six tv producers and various cable nets. Univision was paced by Thursday's "Premio Lo Nuestro" music honours (2.4/6 in 18-49, 5.64m), which lifted the web with a third-place tie with ABC for your evening in 18-49. For your week, the web went second to Fox in grownups 18-34 (1.5/6)., Round the cable side, AMC's "The Walking Dead" supported its record preem perf by having an execllent number despite declines (3.7/9, 6.89m) -- standing as Sunday's No. 1 series in 18-49 and second of primetime dramas for your week in 18-49 (behind "NCIS"). MTV's "Jersey Shoreline" is constantly progressively decline (2.9/8 in 18-49, 5.35m), sinking beneath the 3 demo mark only for the second in time its last 25 regular airings but nevertheless narrowly winning its Thursday 10 p.m. hour in 18-49. The completely new show behind it at 11 p.m., "The Most Effective My Pants Back," elevated its audience with a best-yet 2.04 million. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com