In 2003-04, NBC's last truly dominant season, the network had a strong Monday lineup with some unscripted properties and new drama Las Vegas. Then, after a couple years of erosion, it was one of the few nights that NBC was really able to rejuvenate during the network's declining years, riding strong new drama Heroes. As Heroes got softer and then went away, things got very lean on the night for a few years. But Monday became better than ever starting in 2012 when it became the permanent home of very strong reality series The Voice.
NBC Monday
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | Avg | |
| 2001-02 | The Weakest Link | Third Watch | Crossing Jordan | 103 | |||
| 90 | 101 | 119 | |||||
| 2002-03 | Fear Factor | Third Watch | Crossing Jordan | 111 | |||
| 133 | 105 | 95 | |||||
| 2003-04 | Fear Factor | Las Vegas | Average Joe | 143 | |||
| 148 | 124 | 158 | |||||
| 2004-05 | Fear Factor | Las Vegas | LAX | 101 | |||
| 109 | 113 | 81 | |||||
| 2005-06 | Surface | Las Vegas | Medium | 91 | |||
| 72 | 99 | 104 | |||||
| 2006-07 | Deal or No Deal | Heroes | Studio 60 | 122 | |||
| 116 | 163 | 87 | |||||
| 2007-08 | Chuck | Heroes | Journeyman | 109 | |||
| 94 | 158 | 74 | |||||
| 2008-09 | Chuck | Heroes | My Own Worst Enemy | 89 | |||
| 80 | 121 | 66 | |||||
| 2009-10 | Heroes | Trauma | The Jay Leno Show | 65 | |||
| 82 | 58 | 56 | |||||
| 2010-11 | Chuck | The Event | Chase | 66 | |||
| 68 | 67 | 62 | |||||
| 2011-12 | The Sing-Off | The Playboy Club | 63 | ||||
| 66 | 66 | 58 | |||||
| 2012-13 | The Voice Fall | Revolution | 179 | ||||
| 208 | 208 | 122 | |||||
| 2013-14 | The Voice Fall | The Blacklist | 193 | ||||
| 213 | 213 | 153 | |||||
| 2014-15 | The Voice Fall | The Blacklist | 186 | ||||
| 199 | 199 | 160 | |||||
| Avg | 120 | 128 | 100 | 116 | |||
2014-15 Update: The Voice was down both in fall and spring, but the rate of decline isn't alarming and certainly nothing like what Fox has experienced with American Idol. The real Monday issue for NBC was what happened at 10/9c after The Blacklist headed to Thursday; November newbie State of Affairs (74) and the summer import The Night Shift (77) both struggled. They're certainly hoping their latest thriller Blindspot will be closer to Blacklist territory.
Notable midseason replacements:
- Season one of Medium filled in for the second half of the 2004-05 season, averaging a 135. The show then returned to its old Monday 10/9c slot for midseason duty in 2007-08 (95) and 2008-09 (80).
- During the 2007-08 writers' strike, NBC had a particularly respectable unscripted lineup with Deal or No Deal (108) and American Gladiators (128).
- The Voice's first Monday run came in 2011-12 (204), when it paired with newbie Smash (96) starting in February.
4 comments:
I am really loving this new feature of yours, it's awesome. I do however have a minor quirk with you not separating fall and spring numbers. I feel like spring numbers are so much lower than fall numbers that it's almost like comparing shows airing in different seasons (I wonder if Spring Ratings from one season aren't closer to the fall ratings from the subsequent season than they are from the fall from the same season). I feel this give a great advantage to stuff like reality shows that only air episodes in the fall and will have their average brought up unfairly. Likewise, shows that air only in the Spring like The Following, Idol or Spring editions of reality shows will always have a disadvantage. But that's a very minor quirk, I am loving what you are doing, thanks a lot. (By the way, speaking of features that I love from this website, will we get a new best case/worst case all the stuff premiering in winter?)
Back to on topic, it's amazing how well NBC is doing this season on Mondays. If they get their Wednesdays and Thursdays sorted out they will be in amazing shape next year. I still have concerns about overexposing the voice though.
Best Case/Worst Case (and The Question) are back January 2.
Quick question: Are the Voice's average in 2012-13 combining both the fall and spring cycles?
Just fall.
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