Ratings Review: ROOKIE BLUE (Season Four)

ROOKIE BLUE has proven to be a decent summer performer for ABC. It's ratings are not spectacular, but are good enough to earn renewal each year and displace the poor performing repeats of its fall dramas.

This is the series I used to measure other summer series. If you can do as well as ROOKIE BLUE, you have a good shot of another summer season. Fall below it's numbers and you will be gone, never to be seen or heard again.

for the 2013 summer season, ROOKIE BLUE averaged 4.86 million viewers and a 1.0 rating in Adults 18-49. it aired 14 times, including one repeat episode. The series will be back for a 5th season on ABC, pushing its episode total to about 67, by the end of 2014.

ROOKIE BLUE (Thursdays at 10 p.m., on ABC)

Date	Viewers*	A18-49	+/-
05/23/13	5.99	1.2
05/30/13	5.91	1.2	-1%
06/06/13	Preempted
06/13/13	Preempted
06/20/13	Preempted
06/27/13	5.18	1.2
07/04/13	2.01	0.4	-61%	R
07/11/13	5.24	1.0	161%
07/18/13	5.24	1.1	0%
07/25/13	5.63	1.1	7%
08/01/13	5.12	1.0	-9%
08/08/13	4.50	0.9	-12%
08/15/13	4.67	1.0	4%
08/22/13	5.13	1.1	10%
08/29/13	4.42	0.9	-14%
09/05/13	4.24	1.0	-4%
09/12/13	4.71	1.0	11%

* - in millions