Ratings: Broadcast Finals for March 21, 2014

After five weeks of repeats, WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY finally gave viewers the firs new episodes since last summer. The season premiere was relatively impressive as the improve comedy beat FOX's RAKE in the A18-49 ratings and tied in total viewers. This is a huge gain for the CW as Friday rarely draw more than 900k in viewership, but Friday night, it averaged over 1.7 million.

The return of HART OF DIXIE also did relatively well. It almost tied FOX in the A18-49 ratings and was just edged out in total viewers. This is an average outing by the series, this season, as Mondays was a struggle to get to a million viewers, or more.

NCAA Tournament basketball continued on CBS, but viewership is down nearly 65% from what the regular Friday lineup brings in. The A18-49 numbers are only down, slightly.

ABC easily won the night in both total viewers and in the demographic ratings. SHARK TANK was once again, the #1 show of the evening, in both reported categories.
 

Final Network Averages:

ABC - 7.1 million viewers, 1.6 rating in Adults 18-49

CBS - 3.9 million viewers, 1.2 rating in Adults 18-49

CW - 1.4 million viewers, 0.5 rating in Adults 18-49

FOX - 1.6 million viewers, 0.5 rating in Adults 18-49

NBC - 5.3 million viewers, 1.3 rating in Adults 18-49

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-49	+/-
8:00	ABC	Last Man Standing [R]	4.49	0.9
8:30	ABC	The Neighbors	3.67	0.9	-18%
9:00	ABC	Shark Tank	8.29	2.1	125%
10:00	ABC	20/20	8.51	1.8	3%
8:00	CBS	NCAA Tournament	3.32	1.0
9:00	CBS	Tournament Update	4.28	1.3	29%
10:00	CBS	NCAA Tournament	4.65	1.5	9%
8:00	CW	Whose Line is it Anyway?	1.74	0.6
8:30	CW	Whose Line is it Anyway?	1.74	0.6	0%
9:00	CW	Hart of Dixie	1.03	0.3	-41%
8:00	FOX	Rake	1.90	0.5
9:00	FOX	Enlisted	1.18	0.4	-38%
9:30	FOX	Raising Hope	1.38	0.4	17%
8:00	NBC	Dateline	7.62	1.4
9:00	NBC	Grimm	5.71	1.5	-25%
10:00	NBC	Hannibal	2.69	0.9	-53%

* - in millions