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, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.