Monday Ratings: The Voice, DWTS, Smash Hit Series Lows

By On 05/01/2012 · 36 Comments · In Dancing with the Stars, Ratings, Smash, The Voice

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Ratings are in from TV By The Numbers

CBS marked its first Monday win since the season premiere of The Voice as How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls and Mike & Molly were each up a tenth of an adults 18-49 rating point from their last originals.

The Voice fell 8% from last Monday and marked a new series low for a performance show with a 3.5 adults 18-49 rating. Smash fell 10% to a series low 1.8 adults 18-49 rating.

Dancing with the Stars dropped 16% to a series low for a performance show with a 2.7 adults 18-49 rating.  Castle was up 14% from two weeks ago to a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating

Dancing with the Stars averaged 15.85M viewers, The Voice averaged 9.4M viewers and Smash 5.40M

8:00

NBC The Voice 3.3/9 9.23
CBS How I Met Your Mother 3.2/10 7.89
ABC Dancing with the Stars 2.5/7 15.01
FOX Bones 1.9/6 7.01
CW Gossip Girl 0.6/2 1.05

8:30 CBS 2 Broke Girls 3.5/9 9.14

9:00 CBS Two and a Half Men 3.7/9 11.25
NBC The Voice 3.6/9 9.58
ABC Dancing with the Stars 2.8/7 16.67
FOX House 2.1/5 6.57
CW Hart Of Dixie 0.6/1 1.31

9:30 CBS Mike & Molly 3.2/8 10.23

10:00 CBS Hawaii Five-0 2.5/6 10.76
ABC Castle 2.4/6 11.38
NBC Smash 1.8/5 5.40

 
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  • Hazehel

    The reason Idol is doing well thus season is because they chose good singers who are evenly matched this year.

    Idol isn’t doing well this year.  It’s still down ~30% in the 18/49 demo from last year.  It’s holding steadyish the last few episodes, that’s about the best you can say.  

  • http://twitter.com/raya4 raya

    Stable ratings are still better than continually falling ratings.  The fact that Idol is down, but relatively stabilized is a good thing IMO.  The fact that The Voice is still falling should be far more worrisome to NBC, particularly as it’s nearing the finale.   

    As ratings are down across the board, I might be in the small group that doesn’t find Idol’s ratings really all that troubling.  That is, as long as they hold about where they are at for the rest of the season. 

  • http://twitter.com/tinawinabina Tinawina

    I think its something of a mixed bag. In some ways troubling, but in some ways reassuring.

    Given the talent show oversaturation, a drop beyond the usual 10-15% seems reasonable. I would have been happy with ~20%. 30% is huge.

    On the other hand, considering it started the season with a 27% drop, and considering it got even worse during the run up to the live shows, holding to a 30% drop now shows that AI did at least retain the people who were still interested at the start of the year fairly well. And it is still the highest rated show of its type, none of the others look poised to catch up anytime soon.

    Of course, the real problem is next year. Can they stop the erosion (or at least stay in pace with the overall drop in TV viewership) or are we in for another bloodletting? **cue dramatic music**

  • Anonymous

    Where it matters, most weeks it’s still the highest rated show period.

  • http://twitter.com/tinawinabina Tinawina

    You know what would be crazy? If Idol still ends up the number one show in the demo despite the fact that The Voice will be allowed to count its Superbowl episode in its average. I used to think that had no chance of happening but with their finale looking like it might not crack a 4 while Idol’s likely to be much higher… AI just might pull it off.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SYFK77IYLRQIVATQ2MJKSW2J7Y Pam

    I’m wondering if the viewers have become too familiarized with the Idol format where there is a long final rounds and the viewers can get to know the contestants slowly, which might benefit the contestants in their post-show career.  The Voice should consider making the voting rounds a couple of weeks longer.

    I think that’s exactly the direction the show needs to go in.  We have a lot backstories going on with these people but as far as really getting to “know” them, we aren’t.  No wonder these people fade from public consciousness so quickly.  Even with AI’s flaws, we are getting to know these kids just a little bit more each week as they advance.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SYFK77IYLRQIVATQ2MJKSW2J7Y Pam

    Here are last night’s final ratings adjustments from tvbythenumbers.

    Dancing with the Stars, How I Met Your Mother, Bones  and 2 Broke Girls were each adjusted up a tenth, while Castle was adjusted down a tenth among adults 18-49 versus Monday’s preliminary ratings.

    8:00 ABC Dancing with the Stars (8-10PM) 2.8/7 16.20

  • Anonymous

     I do not think they should air The Voice twice in a season. I think that is a mistake. I do like the show but that is too much. I never liked Smash so I am not surprised about their ratings.

  • Kylee

     Its doing well enough to be the number 1 rated show…

  • Anonymous

    I’m really trying to be fair here, but I watched Smash the last few weeks and Mcphee’s acting is really stiff and her facial expressions are so one-dimensional and non-expressive, it makes it hard to not get bored out of my mind.  I swear, every time she came on in a new scene, she had the same blank stare as every other scene.  That’s acting??  Sorry Kat…. you need to step back and take a few acting classes and the show should consider replacing her with a better player IMO.  THe other lead, the blond, is a FAR better singer, imo, and a far better actress.

  • Tess

    Totally agree….she just can’t act and there is no depth to her face or her emotion.  Hell, Debra Messing has the “worst” character description on the planet and she still has made her character something other than dry bland day old toast….Kat, not so much.  I even fast forward through the Kat songs.

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