Primetime Ratings: ‘Houdini & Doyle’ Debut Lacks Magic

UPDATED: NBC took Monday honors with its typically robust The Voice, the variety show doing a 2.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, up 5%. NBC showed a 1.8 on the night with a 6 share. ABC had a 1.5/5, CBS a 1.4/5, Fox a 0.9/3 and CW a 0.3/1.

NBC’s Blindspot did a 1.2, down 14%.

ABC had Dancing With the Stars at 1.8, same as last week, before Castle rated a 1.0, down a tenth.

CBS aired a double run of Mike & Molly at 1.3 and 1.4 (it did a 1.3 last week), then a repeat of Big Bang Theory before The Odd Couple rated a 1.3, down from the 1.6 it did last Thursday. The NCIS: Los Angeles season finale scored a 1.3, up 8%.

On Fox, Gotham did a flat 1.2 and critically shrugged about newcomer Houdini & Doyle, about a famous magician and famous author pairing up to solve bizarre crimes, a soft 0.7.

On The CW, Reign rated a flat 0.3, while Jane the Virgin’s 0.3 was down a tenth.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.