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SpotVault - Hell's Kitchen (Fox) - 2016-17 Ratings

Hell's Kitchen

Fridays, 8/7c, Fox

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Spotted Ratings, Friday 4/29/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: Shark Tank (1.5) adjusted up (in what must have been one of its biggest adjustments all season), while Grimm (0.8) adjusted down. The Amazing Race was unable to get the finals uptick and thus posted its first ever 0.9.

• ABC opened Friday with a repeat of Shark Tank (0.8) leading off at 8/7c. Though it was a bit lower-rated than the recently wrapped comedy hour, it may have helped boost the original Tank at 9/8c (1.4), which jumped up to its highest rating since February. 20/20 (1.2) also had another pretty good night.

• It was a fairly status quo night elsewhere, though NBC's Caught on Camera (0.7), Grimm (0.9) and Dateline (1.0) may have to sweat out another NBA preemption in Portland. (And the Blazers' series win means Portland preemptions will be in play for another couple weeks...)

• On CBS, The Amazing Race (0.9) is once again eyeing its first ever rounded fractional result. (Though it has upticked from a preliminary 0.9 before!) Hawaii Five-0 extended its 1.1 streak to eight episodes, while Blue Bloods (1.2) gave back its uptick from a couple weeks ago.

• Fox's Hell's Kitchen (1.0) inched up for the season finale, while the 8/7c repeat hung another 0.5.

• And CW's The Vampire Diaries and The Originals each had preliminary 0.4's.

Spotted Ratings, Friday 4/22/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: 20/20 (1.2), The Vampire Diaries (0.4) and Containment (0.2) adjusted down.

• ABC's bubble comedies Last Man Standing (1.0) and Dr. Ken (0.9) wrapped up their seasons and didn't leave the ideal final impressions, as each show downticked to tie its series low. Shark Tank (1.2) was also down a tenth, though 20/20 (1.3) had a strong night at 10/9c with coverage of Prince's death.

• NBC's Caught on Camera (0.7) and Grimm (0.9) ticked up from last week's lows, while Prince coverage on Dateline (0.9) fell well behind 20/20 at 10/9c.

• CBS had steady originals of The Amazing Race (1.0) and Hawaii Five-0 (1.1) plus a repeat of Blue Bloods (0.9).

• A week away from the finale, Fox's Hell's Kitchen had another 0.5 for an 8/7c repeat and 0.9 for a 9/8c original.

• And the CW had (at least preliminarily) a rather strong night from The Vampire Diaries (0.5). The Originals took the night off so the network could encore the pilot of Containment (0.3).

Spotted Ratings, Friday 4/15/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The Amazing Race (1.0) adjusted up, wiping out its new series low and simply tying for it instead.

• ABC's Last Man Standing (1.1), Dr. Ken (1.0) and Shark Tank (1.3) all ticked up from last week's season lows. 20/20 (1.0) gave back a tenth.

• CBS' The Amazing Race (0.9) took a tumble, (preliminarily) into fractional territory for the first time. But Blue Bloods (1.3) was up at 10/9c, while Hawaii Five-0 posted its sixth consecutive 1.1.

• It was a below-average night for NBC, as Grimm fell to 0.8 for the first time since its winter premiere. Caught on Camera (0.6) dropped to a season low at 8/7c, but Dateline (1.0) pulled into a tie with 20/20 at 10/9c.

• With Sleepy Hollow over, Fox plugged in a repeat of Hell's Kitchen (0.5) at 8/7c. That repeat did worse than Sleepy's usual numbers, but the original Hell's (0.9) ticked up at 9/8c.

• The Vampire Diaries (0.4) inched up from last week's preemption-riddled low. The Originals (0.3) did not.

Spotted Ratings, Friday 4/1/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: A week after adjusting up from 0.6, this time Sleepy Hollow adjusted down from 0.7 to its first ever final 0.6. The Vampire Diaries (0.4) also adjusted down.

• CBS' Friday lineup made a fairly unexciting return to the schedule. While The Amazing Race (1.1) was up a tenth in its first post-DST episode, Hawaii Five-0 (1.1) and Blue Bloods (1.2) each matched their last couple results.

• Fox brought Hell's Kitchen back to Friday and saw its ratings plummet to 0.8; Kitchen found this night a lot tougher than it was in January when it was leading out of MasterChef Junior. The penultimate Sleepy Hollow had its usual 0.7 at 8/7c.

• ABC had repeats of Last Man Standing (0.8), Dr. Ken (0.7) and Shark Tank (1.0) plus an original 20/20 (1.0), while NBC had a repeat of Caught on Camera (0.7) leading into original Grimm (0.9) and Dateline (0.9).

• The CW's The Vampire Diaries (0.5) and The Originals (0.4) returned from hiatus in solid fashion, with TVD on the uptick.

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 3/23/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The Goldbergs (2.0), Survivor (2.1), Criminal Minds (2.2) and Chicago PD (1.4) adjusted up.
  

• On the last Empire-free Wednesday for a couple months, it was a big night for CBS' Criminal Minds (2.1), which surged to a new season high at 9/8c. That helped Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (1.5) take a very healthy week two drop and beat Chicago PD (1.3) head-to-head. Beyond Borders is not out of the woods yet, since Empire will be back next week and may hurt its lead-in somewhat. But this was a relatively encouraging sign. Survivor (2.0) inched down at 8/7c for CBS.

• NBC had worse newbie news as Heartbeat (0.9) couldn't crack a one in its opening Wednesday. If it can hold this 0.9 in a post-DST world, you could make a case that it's not really much weaker than previous occupant The Mysteries of Laura... but it would probably be fortunate to pull that off. Law and Order: SVU (1.5) was a bit below average and Chicago PD (1.3) hit a season low.

• ABC's lineup was mostly steady, with The Middle (1.7), Black-ish (1.9) and Nashville (0.9) even while Modern Family (2.4) and The Goldbergs (1.9) inched down.

• The CW saw its second straight superhero show, Arrow (0.7), return to a new season low by multiple tenths. And its second straight 9/8c occupant, Supernatural (0.6), was on the low end but not a new low.

• Fox's final sans Empire Wednesday saw Rosewood (1.0) and Hell's Kitchen (1.2) each perk up by a tenth.

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 3/16/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The Goldbergs (2.0) and all the NBC repeats (1.0/1.0/0.9) adjusted up.

•  CBS had a respectable but unspectacular start from new Criminal Minds spin-off Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, which opened with 8.65 million viewers and a 1.6 demo rating at 10/9c. This is a tenth better than where Code Black opened in the fall, and about equivalent in Plus to where CSI: Cyber opened a year ago (1.8). It's not an overly gush-worthy performance since Criminal Minds itself (1.9) had another strong outing, and its main competitor Chicago PD (0.8) was in repeats. But it can definitely be a success if it holds up well from here (as the last NCIS spin-off New Orleans did).
• Also on CBS, Survivor (2.1) defied the Daylight Saving Time odds as usual and matched last week.

• ABC's lead-off comedy The Middle (1.7) hit a new season low in the face of DST, but the other comedies The Goldbergs (1.9), Modern Family (2.5) and Black-ish (1.9) managed to avoid a similar fate. Nashville (0.9) returned to ABC with lots of wedding promotion and rebounded by just a tenth from its series low fall finale. 

• Fox's Rosewood turned in yet another 0.9 as it awaits the return of Empire in two weeks, while Hell's Kitchen inched down to 1.1. NBC (0.9/0.9/0.8) and CW (0.3/0.2) had repeats. 

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 3/9/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The Carmichael Show (1.0) adjusted down.

• NBC took the Wednesday crown with The Voice's "Best of the Blind Auditions" special (2.0/2.1), which came close to matching the fall version's 2.2 even though the fall one aired on a regular Voice night. That led into a mediocre return from summer comedy The Carmichael Show (1.1), airing a one-off preview at 10/9c before it moves to Sunday after Little Big Shots later in the week. And a repeat of a season one Carmichael episode fell to 0.7 at 10:30.

• CBS inched down at 8/7c with Survivor (2.1), then went off the map at 9/8c with the Victoria's Secret Swim Special (0.7). This special bombed even harder than last year's edition, when it severely disappointed with a 1.0 on a Thursday. Given this rejection, another special Wednesday CSI: Cyber did OK to get back to 1.0 at 10/9c.

• ABC's comedy lineup went into repeats (1.1/1.1/1.2/1.2), but the finale of American Crime (0.9) still inched up at 10/9c.

• Fox's Rosewood stayed at last week's weak 0.9, but the news was better at 9/8c as Hell's Kitchen (1.2) rebounded.

• And CW had repeats of Arrow (0.3) and Supernatural (0.3).