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Metered Market Tuesday Ratings
Clean Sweep for CBS; Fashion No Star for NBC

Tuesday 3/20/12
Metered Market Results

Household
Rating/Share
CBS 9.9/16
NBC 4.1/ 7
ABC 3.4/ 7
Fox 2.8/ 5
CW 1.0/ 2

-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Thursday 3/22/11
CW: +67, NBC: - 2, CBS: - 6, Fox: -15, ABC: -26

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-Winners:
NCIS (CBS), NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)

-Honorable Mention:
Unforgettable (CBS)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
Raising Hope (Fox), I Hate My Teenage Daughter (Fox), Cougar Town (ABC), 90210 (CW), The River (ABC), Breaking In (Fox), Ringer (CW), Fashion Star (NBC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was a clean overnight sweep for CBS, which dominated each of the six half-hours with its combination of NCIS (12.0 rating/20 share – top-rated show of the evening), spin-off NCIS: Los Angeles (10.3/16) and freshman drama Unforgettable (7.4/13). Had Unforgettable not been airing on CBS, potential renewal for a second season would not be a question mark. Unless another network steps up to the plate (and that is unlikely), chances of a second season for older-skewing Unforgettable are slim.

Comparably, CBS outdelivered distant No. 2 NBC by an average142 percent. Third overall in the metered markets was ABC, followed by Fox and The CW, which aired repeats on the year-ago evening (hence the double-digit percent increase).

Tired The Biggest Loser on NBC, which dipped by 17 percent year-to-year (5.3/ 8 to 4.4/ 7 from 8-10 p.m.) led into week two of reality competition Fashion Star at a second-place 3.5/ 6 in the overnights at 10 p.m. Comparably, this was actually up by one-tenth of a rating point from its 90-minute week ago debut (3.4/ 6 on March 13). But the opener translated into only 4.55 million viewers and a 1.6 rating/4 share among adults 18-49 (according to the Live Plus Same Day ratings). Based on the overnights, Fashion Star was only similar to recent occupant Parenthood.

Over at ABC, expected-to-be renewed sitcom Last Man Standing opened with a second-place 4.8/ 8 at 8 p.m., which built from the first-half of year-ago failed occupant No Ordinary Family (3.5/ 6 on 3/22/11) by 37 percent. But Cougar Town at 8:30 p.m. dipped to third with a 3.3/ 5 (and retention out of Last Man Standing of just 69 percent). Next was the series-finale of flop drama The River at an uneventful (and fourth-place) 2.7/ 4 in the overnights at 9 p.m., followed by a repeat of on-the-fence Body of Proof at a last-place 3.4/ 6 at 10 p.m.

On Fox, only New Girl at 9 p.m. resonated among the four live action comedies and its performance remains on the downside out of I Hate My Teenage Daughter (instead of soon-to-return Glee). Raising Hope opened fourth in the overnights with a 2.8/ 5 at 8 p.m., followed by hiatus bound I Hate My Teenage Daughter at a 2.1/ 3 at 8:30 p.m. (#4). Compared to Glee on the year-ago evening (3.9/ 6 on 3/22/11), the pair dipped by 37 percent. And that was versus an encore telecast. Next on Fox was aforementioned New Girl (#3: 4.1/ 6), which always scores among adults 18-49, followed by sophomore Breaking In at a fourth-place 2.3/ 4 at 9:30 p.m. Needless to say, Breaking In should never have returned for a second season.

As a reminder, Glee returns to the Tuesday 8 p.m. hour on April 10, leading to New Girl and the return of Raising Hope to 9:30 p.m.

Last, and very least was the CW’s combination of 90210 (#5: 1.1/ 2) and Ringer (1.1/ 2), which of the three new fall 2011 CW dramas has the least chance of returning.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source: Marc Berman@TVMediaInsights