Thursday, May 31, 2012

The two-hour season finale of Touch earned a 1.3, four tenths lower than the series low it earned two weeks ago. Breaking Pointe debuted to a predictable "new CW reality show" score of 0.3. Duets fell two tenths in its second week.

The Big Bang Theory rerun beat everything Thursday except a Thunder-Spurs NBA playoff game. Rules ranked second, tied with History's Swamp People.

rating	show	slot	network	last week	season low	series low
0.3	Breaking Pointe premiere "Survival of the Fittest"	8pm	CW
1.3	Touch "Gyre"	8-10pm	FOX		1.3
1.4	Rookie Blue "First Day of the Rest of Your Life"	10pm	ABC	1.4	1.4 (2)	1.0 (2)
1.5	Duets "Classic Duets"	8-10pm	ABC	1.7	1.5
0.2	rerun - The Catalina "Spring Breakdown"	9pm	CW
0.8	rerun - The Office "Special Project"	8pm	NBC	0.7	2.1	2.1
0.8	rerun - The Office "Tallahassee"	8:30	NBC	0.7	2.1	2.1
1.1	rerun - America's Got Talent (Monday)	9pm	NBC	1.2	3.2	?
1.3	rerun - The Mentalist "Blinking Red Light"	10pm	CBS	1.5	1.8	1.8
1.4	rerun - Person of Interest "Root Cause"	9pm	CBS	1.4	2.4
1.5	rerun - America's Got Talent (Tuesday)	10pm	NBC		3.2	?
1.8	rerun - Rules of Engagement "Nature Calls"	8:30	CBS	1.7	2.2	1.9
2.3	rerun - The Big Bang Theory "The Speckerman Recurrence"	8pm	CBS	2.3	4.1	2.8

sources: spotted ratings and tv by the numbers

Programming Notes

The CW's top series (by a mile), The Vampire Diaries will be back (in rerun form) next week.

Synergy Corner: TruTV will run all four episodes of HBO's 24/7: Pacquiao/Bradley before their fight on Saturday, June 9.

Good Morning America beat the The Today Show in viewers for the fourth week in the past two months. Meanwhile, NBC's other daytime program, Days of Our Lives has fallen behind the other three remaining soap operas, tying its series low rating in Women 18-49.

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