David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. “Murder Club:” With a title like that, the competition’s got to shrivel
ABC resurrected its Friday schedule with a little “Murder:” “Women’s Murder Club” did the network’s best numbers on the evening with the strongest ratings it managed on a Friday since May 2006 or 2003, depending on which measure you opt to regard. But that was the only good news ABC had on Friday.
10.8 million watched the show’s premiere, which kind of took the wind out of the sails of its competition: CBS’s vampire comedy – sorry, drama – “Moonlight” saw its lowest ratings in three outings, while almost 20% of “Friday Night Lights”’ audience from last week sat through that episode’s high-school murder-club plotline and decided, “Eh, not so much.” It’s down to 5.4 million viewers, bad even by Friday’s sorry standards.
ABC’s “Men in Trees” also proved there was no real compelling reason to renew it for a second season.
And, hey: Baseball, which is (last I checked) a real sport, couldn’t even manage to double its audience over wrestling, which decidedly is not. 7.07m watched Boston paste Cleveland on Fox Friday (though more watched Saturday’s far more compelling game), while 4.44m watched The CW’s “Smackdown!” Insert your own End-Times comment here.