Final Broadcast Ratings: September 12, 2014

It was a mostly repeat filled Friday night on broadcast TV, with FOX the lone network with all original line up. Freshman series UTOPIA is begging to be cancelled. Less than two million viewers tuned into watch the first Friday edition of the series. That is down another half million viewers, from Tuesday's audience, which was down two million viewers from last Sunday's premiere. Is it too early to cancel UTOPIA?

Following UTOPIA was soon to end KITCHEN NIGHTMARES, which did nothing with the small audience it was delivered. It was the least watched program from the Big 4 networks. A little sad to see the Gordon Ramsey series to go out with such bad numbers.

MASTERS OF ILLUSION continues too look good for the CW, drawing just under 1.4 million viewers. As a reminder, none of the 2013-14 series on the night did anything close to the numbers ILLUSION has been getting on Fridays.

Final Network Averages:

ABC - 4.2 million viewers, 1.0 rating in A18-49

CBS - 5.1 million viewers, 0.6 rating in A18-49

CW - 0.9 million viewers, 0.3 rating in A18-49

FOX - 1.9 million viewers, 0.7 rating in A18-49

NBC - 5.0 million viewers, 6.3 rating in A18-49

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-49	+/-
8:00	ABC	Last Man Standing [R]	4.53	0.9
8:30	ABC	Last Man Standing [R]	4.41	0.9	-3%
9:00	ABC	Shark Tank [R]	4.25	1.1	-4%
10:00	ABC	20/20	3.94	0.9	-7%
8:00	CBS	48 Hours	4.31	0.7
9:00	CBS	Hawaii Five-O [R]	4.84	0.5	12%
10:00	CBS	Blue Bloods [R]	6.15	0.6	27%
8:00	CW	Masters of Illusion	1.37	0.4
8:30	CW	Whose Line is It Any Way? [R]	0.98	0.3	-28%
9:00	CW	ANTM [R]	0.64	0.2	-35%
8:00	FOX	Utopia	1.99	0.7
9:00	FOX	Kitchen Nightmares	1.82	0.6	-9%
8:00	NBC	Running Wild w/Bear Grylls [R]	2.72	0.7
9:00	NBC	Dateline	6.09	1.2	124%

* - in millions