Thursday, October 4, 2012

Last Resort sunk below 2.0. Elementary fell half a point, to the worrisome mid-2s. Parks and Recreation, Glee, and Person of Interest rose a couple of tenths. Big Bang Theory, The X Factor, and Scandal held steady. Grey's Anatomy fell more than half a point.

	Thursday, October 4, 2012	prelim. rating	final rating	last week	season low	series low
	The Big Bang Theory 8pm "The Decoupling Fluctuation"	4.9	4.9	5.0	4.9	2.8
	Two and a Half Men 8:30 "A Big Bag of Dog"	3.7	3.6	3.5	3.5	3.5
	Grey's Anatomy 9pm "Remember the Time"	3.7	3.8	4.4	3.8	2.8
	The X Factor 8pm episode 8	3.1	3.2	3.2	3.1	2.6
	Person of Interest 9pm "Bad Code"	3.1	3.0	2.9	2.9	2.4
	Glee 9pm "The Break Up"	2.6	2.6	2.4	2.4	2.4
	Elementary 10pm "While You Were Sleeping"	2.6	2.5	3.1	2.5
	The Office 9pm "Andy's Ancestry"	2.1	2.2	2.1	2.1	2.1
	Scandal 10pm "The Other Woman"	2.1	2.0	2.1	2.0	1.9
	Parks & Recreation 9:30 "How a Bill Becomes a Law"	1.9	1.9	1.6	1.6	1.6
	Last Resort 8pm "Blue on Blue"	1.8	1.9	2.2	1.9
	Up All Night 8:30 "Swingers"	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.3	1.2
	30 Rock season premiere 8pm "The Beginning of the End"	1.3	1.4		1.4	1.2
	Rock Center 10pm Mark Zuckerberg	1.1	1.0	0.8	0.8	0.5
	The Next finale 8pm-10 "Finale"	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2

sources: spotted ratings and tv by the numbers

Programming Notes

Cartoon Network renewed The Amazing World of Gumball. AMC will rerun seasons 1 and 2 of The Walking Dead from Saturday, October 13 at 10am until the season 3 premiere on Sunday, October 14 at 9pm. This October, AMC has all 10 of the Friday the 13th movies. They'll run in sequence, two per night, starting Monday, October 15 at 8pm. Encore has Freddy vs. Jason. FLIX has Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, and you can get a box set of all 7 of the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street" movies on Blue Ray for $45 at Best Buy. AMC has also locked in four of the Halloween series of films -- 1, 4, 5, and 8.