Tuesday, July 24, 2012

America's Got Talent held steady but both Hell's Kitchen and MasterChef ticked up and tied it are still too close for comfort. Trust Us with Your Life fell three tenths from last week, and NY Med fell a tenth in its third week. Love in the Wild went out on its series low.

rating	show	slot	network	last week	season low	series low
0.2	The L.A. Complex "The Contract"	9pm	CW	0.3	0.2 (4)
0.6	Trust Us With Your Life Florence Henderson	9:30	ABC	0.9	0.6
0.6	Trust Us With Your Life Jerry Springer	9pm	ABC	0.9	0.6
1.1	NY Med Dr. Oz gets a colonoscopy	10pm	ABC	1.2	1.1
1.2	Love in the Wild ep. 8, season finale	10pm	NBC	1.3	1.2 (3)	1.2 (3)
2.5	MasterChef top 6, part 2	9pm	FOX	2.5	2.0	1.8
2.6	Hell's Kitchen 6 chefs	8pm	FOX	2.5	2.0	2.0
2.7	America's Got Talent episode 20	8pm-10	NBC	2.6	2.0	2.0
0.3	rerun - Hart of Dixie "In Havoc & In Heat"	8pm	CW	0.4	0.5 (4)
0.7	rerun - Last Man Standing "Animal Wrongs"	8:30	ABC		1.5
0.8	rerun - The Middle "The Clover"	8pm	ABC		1.9 (2)	1.7
1.1	rerun - NCIS: LA "Blye K., Part 2"	9pm	CBS	1.0	2.4	2.4
1.1	rerun - Person of Interest "Get Carter"	10pm	CBS	1.0	2.4
1.1	rerun - NCIS "Thirst"	8pm	CBS	1.0	3.1 (3)	2.4

sources: spotted ratings and tv by the numbers

Programming Notes

Kings of Late Night Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have signed deals that will keep them and their shows on Comedy Central through the Summer of 2015 and the end of 2014, respectively.

MTV renewed Awkward. for 20 episodes.

Style bought reruns of Gossip Girl

"TV NOW" is the grubby new slogan of The CW.

DISH wised up and tweaked to its auto-hop program so that its customers are the ones who choose (a) whether to skip commercials, rather than zapping them by default, and (b) which broadcast channels get recorded each night.

FOX greenlit an hourlong comedy show consisting of short comedy presentations, slated for next Summer. It's called "The Short-Com Comedy Hour," for now.