CBS’s Reruns Laugh at NBC’s New Episodes

After getting solid numbers for a couple weeks after their hiatus, Community has seemed to level off, coming in with an 1.4 18-49 rating, same as 30 Rock. The first new Office in a month came in at a 2.1, 0.3 points lower than their last original episode, which isn’t what you want to see when trying to pitch a major reboot. Still, a new episode of The Office offered some lead-in bump to the season finale of Up All Night, which was up 0.3 to a 1.5 rating. For fun, or more like not fun, let’s compare those numbers (8:00-1.4, 8:30-1.4, 9:00-2.1, 9:30-1.5) to CBS’s (8:00-2.8, 8:30-2.7, 9:00-3.0, 9:30-2.1). Are you crying yet? No, let me continue. Last night, CBS aired three reruns (Big Bang Theory at 8:00 and 9:00, 2 Broke Girls at 9:30) and one new episode of the David Spade-David Puddy vehicle, Rules of Attraction (8:30). In overall eyeballs, CBS was watched by nearly 22 million more people from 8:00-10:00. To add insult to injury, Univision also beat NBC last night. En español, El Must See TV es Must See no mas (that es not español, lo siento).

CBS’s Reruns Laugh at NBC’s New Episodes