Ratings: Broadcast Finals for December 13, 2013

Twelve days before Christmas and ABC wins the night, with a strong SHARK TANK performance of 7.2 million viewers and a 2.0 rating in Adults 18-49. It is now two weeks in a row that the reality series has pushed over the two demo level and is still the only regular series to do so, on Friday nights.

CBS has some good news on the night as UNDERCOVER BOSS won the 8 p.m. hour, collecting 7.3 million viewers and a 1.4 demo rating. It did gel that BONES, on FOX, was in repeat mode. The two CBS dramas were down from season averages, but up from recent holiday programming on the night.

NBC pushed a two hour block of GRIMM. When you look at the preliminary numbers, the 9 p.m. hour is about 18% larger than the second hour. Why did nearly one million GRIMM viewers abandon the show at 10 p.m.?

FOX gave us another two original episode of RAISING HOPE. No reason to get long winded in the analysis. The series is a complete stinker and the sooner it is off the air, the better FOX will be.
 

Friday Night Network Averages:

ABC - 6.2 million viewers, 1.5 rating in Adults 18-49

CBS - 9.1 million viewers, 1.3 rating in Adults 18-49

CW - 0.7 million viewers, 0.2 rating in Adults 18-49

FOX - 2.8 million viewers, 0.7 rating in Adults 18-49

NBC - 5.7 million viewers, 1.2 rating in Adults 18-49

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-49	+/-
8:00	ABC	Last Man Standing	6.27	1.2
8:30	ABC	The Neighbors	4.04	0.9	-34%
9:00	ABC	Shark Tank	7.17	2.0	72%
10:00	ABC	20/20	5.91	1.4	-16%
8:00	CBS	Undercover Boss	7.34	1.4
9:00	CBS	Hawaii Five-O	9.13	1.2	23%
10:00	CBS	Blue Bloods	10.94	1.2	21%
8:00	CW	The Carrie Diaries	0.70	0.2
9:00	CW	Nikita	0.64	0.2	-19%
8:00	FOX	Bones [R]	3.49	0.8
9:00	FOX	Rasing Hope	2.10	0.7	-38%
9:30	FOX	Rasing Hope	1.91	0.6	-13%
8:00	NBC	Dateline	6.19	1.1
9:00	NBC	Grimm	4.88	1.2	-12%

* - in millions