Ratings Review: HELL'S KITCHEN (Season 13 - Fall 2014)

"Who, are you, gonna call? ... GORDON RAMSEY!" That is what FOX has been saying for about a year now, with nothing new sticking with viewers and the network needs a program to help bail it out.

HELL'S KITCHEN was call upon, for just the second time, to be a fall series for FOX, to help plug a hole caused by the cancellation of THE X FACTOR last spring. The numbers were not great, but they were not disastrous, like most of the FOX's new shows this fall.

The 13th season did not go out with a bang, like it usually does, but for the last two months, it was was solid and consistent. Even the DVR numbers are not too bad, adding between 30 and 60 percent to the A18-49 ratings, from the Live+SD numbers. The series still does better as a summer series, but since FOX does not have a real clue how to program a network, HELL'S KITCHEN's fall ratings are better than anything else the network can generate.

For the season, HELL'S KITCHEN averaged 3.80 million viewers and a 1.3 rating in Adults 18-49. The series gets a winter break and will return for season 14, in early March, 2015.

HELL'S KITCHEN (Wednesdays at 8 p.m., on FOX)

Date	Viewers*	A18-49	L+3	L+7
09/10/14	4.27	1.5
09/10/14	4.21	1.5	9pm
09/17/14	3.96	1.4
09/24/14	3.68	1.3	(1.8)
10/01/14	3.89	1.4	(1.9)
10/08/14	3.81	1.4
10/15/14	3.67	1.2	(1.9)
10/22/14	preempted
10/29/14	preempted
11/05/14	3.62	1.3
11/12/14	3.75	1.5
11/19/14	3.98	1.5
11/26/14	3.48	1.1		1.8
12/03/14	3.60	1.2
12/10/14	3.86	1.3
12/10/14	3.86	1.2	9pm
12/17/14	3.62	1.3
12/17/14	3.60	1.3	9pm

* - in millions