Ratings: Breaking In Entering Oblivion?
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Looks like Breaking In is a goner. Given a second chance for a second season to see how it would perform without American Idol's help, the show lost nearly half of its new lead-in's audience.
The Fox sitcom pulled in 3.32 million viewers at 9:30/8:30c after Raising Hope attracted 5.53 million at 9/8c — or some 44 percent less. The show — which Fox moved to Tuesday after axing it last week — also only managed a 1.4 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds. In its previous post-Idol time slot, Breaking In was averaging some 7.7 million — about two-thirds smaller than Idol's audience.
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The Voice trailed off a little more in total viewership, to 9.87 million from last week's 10.29 million, but it sustained a demo rating of 4.5, down just 4 percent from 4.6 a week earlier.
Against NBC's The Voice in prime time's final hour, the Season 2 finale of The Good Wife drew 12.44 million viewers (2.5 rating, up 25 percent from last week and last year's finale in the demo) on CBS, while the season-ender of ABC's Body of Proof snagged 10.41 million (2.2 rating).
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Prime time's first hour was won by the NCIS season-ender on CBS (18.09 million viewers). Dancing with the Stars' "Freestyle Special" attracted 13.42 million people, followed by Glee (8.76 million), The Biggest Loser: Couples (6.42 million) and One Tree Hill's season finale(1.52 million).
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At 9/8c, Dancing's results hour lured 17.72 million people to ABC, while NCIS: Los Angeles' finale got 15.37 million and the CW's Hellcats series conclusion attracted 1.16 million.