On tonight’s “The Office” Andy battles Nellie to retain his regional managership. Will it suck as bad as last week’s installment?
Deleted from last week’s “Welcome Party”:
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Returning tonight:
Café Racer (8pm Velocity)
Parks and Recreation (9:30pm NBC)
Premiering tonight:
Great American Manhunt (9pm NGC) features a team of experts employing "the very latest techniques and technology in forensic science - as well as a bit of intuition and some old fashioned clue busting abilities - to unravel the complex mystery put before them."
Kathy (10pm Bravo) is Kathy Griffin’s new weekly talk show. (For some reason Bravo airs Bravo executive Andy Cohen’s talkshow “Watch What Happens Live” daily.)
Not Safe For Work (9pm Tru) scours the Internet for amusing video. Kind of like Comedy Central’s “Tosh.0.”
* “The Office” hit a 4.8 one Thursday two seasons ago. Last season it hit a 4.5 and never fell below a 3.2. Last Thursday “The Office hit a 2.2, its lowest score in quite a few years. Incredibly, it’s still NBC’s top-rated scripted primetime series.
* “Community,” “Up All Night” and “30 Rock” were all up a bit, no doubt thanks to the return of “The Office” (and “Big Bang Theory” offering a repeat), but their scores still look insanely anemic. (Hard to believe that “30 Rock” hit a 3.1 last season. Even fucking “Outsourced” premiered with a 3.6 in the post-“Office” slot last season.
* A rebound for “American Idol” did not prevent Tim Kring’s “Touch” from matching its all-time low score. (In 2010, the last Cowell season of “Idol” launched at 11.8. 2011’s first Cowell-free season premiered at 9.7 last season. Now it can’t muster half that.)
* “Awake” again tied “Prime Suspect’s” all-time low of 0.9 but it still hasn’t hit “The Firm’s” Thursday low of 0.8. "Awake" was beaten badly by a repeat of "Person of Interest" and ABC's underperforming "Scandal" tied with MTV's "Punk'd at 10 p.m.
Thursdays, Feb. 2-April 12, 2012
(18-49 finals; repeats in grey; prior weeks in parentheses)
4.3 (3.9) (4.4) (4.2) (4.6) (4.9) (5.4) (4.5) (5.1) (5.8) (5.5) American Idol
3.0 (4.4) (4.7) (---) (---) (5.1) (3.2) (5.3) (5.1) (5.6) (5.5) Big Bang Theory
2.9 (2.8) (1.2) (1.2) (3.0) (1.4) (1.1) (3.1) (3.2) (4.0) (3.6) Grey’s Anatomy
2.7 (2.7) (2.7) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Rules of Engagement
--- (2.4) (2.7) (---) (---) (2.8) (1.7) (2.6) (2.7) (3.0) (2.9) The Mentalist
2.3 (2.3) (2.7) (3.3) (2.2) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (3.9) Touch
2.2 (1.0) (1.2) (---) (2.4) (2.6) (2.5) (2.6) (2.3) (2.5) (2.8) The Office
2.1 (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) 2 Broke Girls
2.0 (2.0) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Scandal
1.8 (3.0) (3.3) (---) (---) (3.4) (1.8) (3.1) (2.8) (3.3) (3.3) Person of Interest
1.8 (1.7) (1.6) (0.8) (2.0) (1.9) (1.8) (1.7) (1.6) (1.9) (---) Swamp People
--- (---) (---) (1.7) (2.7) (2.8) (2.7) (2.9) (2.9) (3.0) (3.2) Jersey Shore
1.6 (1.0) (1.7) (---) (1.5) (0.9) (1.0) (2.2) (0.9) (1.2) (0.9) NBA Basketball
1.5 (1.2) (1.3) (1.5) (1.7) (1.7) (1.6) (1.7) (1.5) (1.7) (1.8) Up All Night
1.4 (1.3) (1.7) (1.7) (2.2) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Community
1.4 (1.5) (1.5) (1.6) (2.1) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Missing
1.4 (1.2) (1.5) (1.6) (2.0) (1.4) (1.4) (1.5) (1.5) (1.6) (1.3) 30 Rock
0.9 (0.9) (1.0) (1.2) (1.6) (1.6) (2.0) (---) (---) (---) (---) Awake
0.9 (0.9) (1.6) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Punk’d
0.8 (0.7) (0.7) (0.4) (0.7) (0.5) (0.7) (0.8) (0.6) (0.4) (0.8) The Daily Show
0.8 (0.7) (---) (---) (---) (0.4) (---) (---) (0.7) (---) (0.7) Impractical Jokers
0.8 (0.8) (1.6) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Pauly D Project
--- (---) (0.8) (0.8) (2.1) (---) (---) (2.1) (2.6) (2.2) (2.3) Private Practice
0.8 (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Sold!
0.7 (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (0.5) (---) (---) (---) (0.4) After The First 48
0.7 (0.6) (0.6) (0.7) (0.6) (0.8) (0.5) (0.4) (0.5) (0.4) (0.6) The First 48
0.6 (0.5) (0.6) (---) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.7) (0.4) (---) (0.7) Colbert Report
0.6 (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Eagleheart
0.5 (0.6) (0.5) (0.4) (---) (0.5) (0.6) (0.6) (0.6) (0.6) (0.6) Conan
0.5 (0.4) (0.5) (0.5) (0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (0.3) (0.3) (0.3) (0.4) House Hunters
0.5 (0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (0.3) (0.3) (0.4) (---) House Hunters Intl
0.5 (0.5) (0.4) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) Impact Wrestling
0.5 (0.5) (0.4) (0.5) (0.4) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Sweet Genius
0.5 (0.4) (---) (0.4) (---) (0.5) (0.4) (0.5) (0.4) (0.4) (0.5) World’s Dumbest
0.4 (0.3) (0.3) (0.3) (0.2) (0.4) (0.3) (0.2) (0.3) (0.4) (0.3) O’Reilly Factor
0.4 (0.4) (1.2) (1.3) (1.2) (0.4) (0.4) (0.5) (1.4) (1.3) (1.2) Vampire Diaries
0.3 (0.2) (0.3) (0.2) (---) (0.2) (0.2) (---) (---) (0.3) (0.2) Hannity
0.3 (---) (0.4) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Mary Mary
0.3 (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Resurrection Tomb
0.3 (0.4) (0.6) (0.7) (0.7) (---) (---) (---) (0.7) (0.8) (0.7) Secret Circle
0.3 (---) (0.3) (0.3) (---) (0.3) (---) (0.3) (0.3) (0.4) (0.3) Selling L.A.
0.3 (---) (0.4) (0.3) (0.3) (0.3) (0.4) (0.4) (---) (0.3) (0.4) Selling New York
