Saturday (9/21/13) Ratings Report

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This is the 17th night of the 2013-14 Television season on Saturday September 21, 2013.


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This is the ratings report for the 3rd late night ratings on Saturday September 21, 2013.

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Jenny Sense (SBC Popular Girls, left), Kya Summers (ICE Starlets, right)

FIRST PLACE FINISHES 2013-14 SEASON
1. ICE (14)
2. ROD (3)
3. SBC (1)
4. QBC (0)
5. TSN (0)
6. Pink (0)


Kya & Babs hits a home run scoring over 50 million viewers for its premiere.

Jenny Sense contributes to Miami's Friends premiere ratings but Young Girls could be a threat against it next week.

For the first time this season we witnessed true weekend competition in the National Division during the early hours on Saturday which made it all very intriguing thanks to the debut of Jenny Sense over on SBC and her new hit program Miami's Friends which made it over the 40 million viewers mark making it only SBC's third comedy behind Full House and Topanga to accomplish that mark. Miami's Friends has a real chance of being a bigger hit comedy in the future if it's scheduled correctly by the powers that be at SBC. Since David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry have come over from ICE they have done a nice job to start this season finding new comedies that work for the network.

MIAMI'S FRIENDS vs. YOUNG GIRLS

What is interesting going into next week about Miami's Friends rating is that they did have some bad news with the half-hour drop but that may have been due to increased competition on ICE. The first half-hour had Little Darlings which got absolutely slaughtered but that's b/c viewers knew the show was moving to daytime on Monday afternoon and Young Girls rose up about 12 million viewers to 40.1 million showing that last week's premiere ratings for Young Girls was not a fluke and that ICE may have a real hit on their hands. ICE needed Young Girls to work for them since Little Darlings is departing from prime time action. It should be interesting to see next week to see if that drop by Miami's Friends meant anything against Young Girls as Miami's Friends is not leading off next week since Four's Company is taking the 8:00pm timeslot next week leading off.

BARBARA PALVIN = RATINGS!

KYA SUMMERS = RATINGS!

The premieres continued into the next hour where ICE's highly anticipated duo comedy of Babs & Kya finally debuted to 52 million viewers. That is the most views for a non-reality/variety/sporting program ever on a Saturday in NITRO Television. What made the rating even more impressive is that it did not come inside of the Thursday Must See TV block that ICE has created this season like the other comedy debuts had. Babs & Kya separated itself from both SBC and ROD in that timeslot as the premieres of Chase & Zoey and Randy Taylor dropped from Miami's Friends and did not finish over 40 million viewers. Chase & Zoey did a bad job of holding onto that big lead-in which held Randy Taylor back from doing better. The good news for Jonathan Taylor Thomas' "Randy Taylor" is that the show did grow out of Chase & Zoey so SBC did do a switch between the two for next week to see if Randy Taylor can hold Miami's Friends lead-in better next week. The good news for both shows is that Babs & Kya will be moving up to the lead-off slot and Jaime will move there and a special airing of Angry Landlords.

It is really possible that Chase & Zoey may have premiered too late as some of the Zoey 101 fans may have already gotten attached to Jaime with Erin Sanders and didn't need Chase & Zoey but we'll see what happens next week as ICE has been building up the Jaime audience very well putting it behind some big lead-ins to grow its audience.

After getting embarrassed by losing to her rival Bella Thorne and new rival Sara Sampaio over on ROD in last night's variety battle Zendaya crept back up to respectable numbers at 30 million viewers which is really going to help TSN when the show moves there in October. New Girls in Town Pageant did a great job of growing out of Babs & Kya keeping ICE's numbers over 50 million viewers to give Tracy Kimmell and Molly Ephraim's variety shows new season-highs and crossing the 60 million viewing mark for the first time this season. These two half-hour varities are so strong right now it's scary.

ROD struggled after The Carpenters Juniors with their comedies getting average-to-solid ratings as they have lost steam from the reboot season. Super Crews seems to have stopped bleeding now as its been in that 30-35 million viewer range for the last couple of weeks now.

In the Federal Division, Pink continues its hot start thanks to its continuing weekend coverage of the opening weekend of the season for WFL Football and Bella Thorne repeated really strongly but TSN comedies never registered or had any interest.


ICE led again in late night and it was never close at all as Sabs and Saturday Night Diamond Girls dominated and Diamond Girls featured the official debut of Aisha Williams and initiation into the ICE Starlets which kept the leading variety series over 70 million viewers. Diamond Girls as it stands right now is the #1 program in NITRO during these first two weeks (17 days) of the season. Saturday was a homecoming night for some of the Diamond Girls members who grew up in the city of Detroit as this was the first set of tapings in the city this season. The bad news for ICE is that Strip Happy Days keeps bleeding badly but their soap specials have done fine growing there behind it.

For SBC and ROD it was an okay night but SBC Stars After Dark should've done better than The L.A. Preview over on ROD. The Popular Girls despite not being any real competition to Diamond Girls has hung around the 40 million viewer mark so it shows that the series has a loyal audience. Despite Jenny Sense getting Miami's Friends off the ground it couldn't help Pretty Wild which is not the hit SBC was hoping for. The Sing War did a much job in late night than it did during prime time hours the week before not dropping below 20 million viewers.

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Barbara Palvin: HELL YEAH!

Kya Summers: HELL YEAH!

Amber Montana: Jenny Sense hate to be the bearer of bad news but your show sucks and will lose to Young Girls next week.

Erin Sanders: Chase and Zoey bombed!

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BIGGEST PREMIERE: The biggest premiere of the week belongs to ICE's Chicago's Most Dangerous Bitch which got its start delayed by two weeks but is finally coming to your screens on Monday at 10pm and moves into its new regular slot behind Kelly's Thugs on Wednesdays. This new crime drama was rated as one of the top 5 most anticipated new shows to debut this fall in NITRO only ranking behind Teen Angels on the drama side. Jessica Lowndes is easily the most hated personality in all of NITRO and she plays a murderous bad girl who kills off men in the city of Chicago. With Jessica Lowndes being the #3 star in NITRO at the moment and CEO of the biggest NITRO studio expect this to get heavily sampled but the real test is how it does on Wednesday behind Kelly's Thugs.


MONDAY: Baywatch which was a living free agent after UNO got defunct continues its second season. Seattle Mysteries got rebooted and will make its series premiere at 10pm on SBC. ICE continues its three-day stay in Miami taking their Starlets talents down to South Beach like LeBron James. Since that's SBC country will the fans boo them again like they did on Sunday at The Hour tapings? Angry Landlords makes its Monday debut. Allison Shields helped launched Pink last Monday and will be featured again as she brings her summer 2010 box office successful hit "Nice Girls" to a world broadcast premiere after the season premiere of the game show "Battle of the Sexes" which airs at 8:00pm leading off.

TUESDAY: ROD steps back into the spotlight thanks to the timeslot debuts of The L.A. and Saved By the Bell: The Adult Years. ROD has had a rich history of being success on Tuesday nights and Ashley Greene would love to bring that tradition back to the table. After getting 60 million viewers for the premiere of The LA this past Sunday there's a lot of pressure riding on the two nostalgia programs to remain over 50 million viewers. It's going to be tough because there was already a huge battle between SBC and ICE on the night as ICE ends it stay in Miami with the auditions of the Pageant. This Tuesday's battle between SBC and ICE will be interesting down in South Florida because ICE is hoping to tap more into that market by having a special crossover episode between Janit O'Day and Pretty Thieves as Pretty Thieves is set in Miami. Jaws, Alex, and Osmond are all big in the Miami market and both Saved By the Bell and The LA were huge in Miami market on Sunday as those numbers will be revealed later. Tuesday Night Jem wraps up the Miami tapings over on Pink.

WEDNESDAY: Week 2 of SBC's New Comedy Wednesdays which was a surprising success for them last week. There are some huge tests in this lineup for damn sure and it starts with Topanga which must prove that it is one of SBC's top hits and stay over 40 million viewers. Simply Sam is one episode away from moving to TSN if it doesn't succeed leading off. As mentioned before on ICE, Chicago's Most Dangerous Bitch makes its timeslot debut after Kelly's Thugs but what's interesting here is that Dangerous Bitch is going to be against Touch Chick and after SBC wisely premiered Tough Chick away from Kelly's Thugs there's a possibility they might be in the same trouble here. Team ROD gets ready for BOTNS next Thursday by showing its viewers two-hours of coverage of their practice sessions live from the west coast.

THURSDAY: Must See TV returns to ICE as the newest featured occupant is DJ Becky which was one of those Toronto's Friends spin-offs like Angry Landlords that was left behind by Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer. SBC and ROD have struggled against the dominance of that lineup on ICE so they have made some changes as Super Crews moves its second episode to Thursday and new ROD pickup Melissa Rycroft will her debut. Huge changes were made to SBC's lineup as Drama's Place gets away from that hot 10pm hour on ICE and leads off as Seattle Mysteries and Michaels & Leary have moved there as well. Tammi Brooks makes her season debut in her famous porn specials which has turned into a regular series this season so this could be interesting to see how it does against ICE. Of note this could be popular New Zealand teen singer Lorde's debut night with ICE as ICE has quietly picked her up and added her to the cast of DJ Becky.

FRIDAY: Bella Thorne celebrates her 3rd anniversary for a special edition of her Groovy Variety Hour before moving the show to Pink the following week as the variety battle continues at 8pm. ROD's successful soap block continues as ICE looks to continue to improve their block as Fridays has become the network's weakest night of the season so far but they will be adding in the debut of their first regular adult series at midnight in Uptown Murders which premieres. Full House over on SBC has been a powerhouse but the lineup has not been consistent as a whole but SBC is looking to change that by giving Topanga a huge chance of sampling this week and Gabby & Terri will air right behind them. SBC moves Diff'rent Strokes and Gimme a Break! over to TSN in hopes of strengthening their lineup and giving their soap Sex, Lies, & The Southern Belle a bigger lead-in.

SATURDAY: We're going to have a 4-way network comedy bloodbath as ICE will be live from Chicago and will be looking to separate their comedies away from the rest of the competition by having Babs & Kya lead-off. The match-up that we are watching for is Miami's Friends vs. Young Girls to see if that half-hour drop for Miami's Friends meant anything. Jaime will move to Saturday and have a chance to kill off Chase & Zoey in that Zoey 101 war. ROD gets in on the porn action in late night by debuting The Porn Hour and their newest acquisitions Gillian Shields and Joannie Stevens will duel up to replace Aisha & Jenny's popular variety show against Diamond Girls. TSN moves Single at Fifty and Monica over to strengthen up the network against Pink and Jake & Posh finally makes its season-debut.

SUNDAY: Sundays belongs to football and The Carpenters Hour and much of that won't change this week but Pink had a pretty good night last week so we'll be keeping an eye on Pink and the continuing surprising success of Overnight Nurses over on ICE. ROD has not announced it yet but told officials that Australian Nights will premiere the following Sunday.


NEXT WEEK (SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 6, 2013): On Thursday will be the first Battle of the Network Stars event of the season in Kansas City so programming that night will be pre-empted into late night. One Day at a Time will comeback home to Indianapolis on Monday for a series of special episodes airing over the next few weeks. Zendaya and Bella move their variety shows to the Federal Division. ROD debuts Australian Nights next Sunday. ICE will be in Dallas next Sunday for The Carpenters Hour tapings which is SBC country.

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Ashley Greene (CEO): We gotta compete way better on Saturday because there's a market for comedies and live programming on this night so look for more changes to this lineup in the future. Next week Joannie Stevens and Gillian Shields will premiere their new variety show in late night but since Saturday Night Diamond Girls is so strong we might move it to another timeslot and move Super Crews into late night.

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Jessica Lowndes (CEO): Yeah you better fear Diamond Girls BITCH!

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Ashley Greene (CEO): We don't fear those sluts we're just being smart to grow our audience away from them so we can challenge and beat their asses in the future.

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Jessica Lowndes (CEO): Like I say you fear Diamond Girls BITCH!