The Breakdown: NBC Monday in 2021-22 (The Voice, Kenan, Ordinary Joe, and more!)

It's time for a journey through the NBC Monday schedule in 2021-22...

Spotted Ratings, Monday 1/24/22

FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelor (0.8), Bob Hearts Abishola (0.6) and NCIS: Hawai'i (0.5) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. ABC premiered new drama Promised Land at 10/9c after The Bachelor. The CW had the debut of docu-drama March.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 1/17/22

FINALS UPDATE: NFL Playoffs (2.7, +0.5) and Kenan (R) (0.3) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 1/10/22

FINALS UPDATE: The Cleaning Lady (0.5) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 1/3/22

FINALS UPDATE: NCIS (0.5) and 9-1-1: Lone Star (0.8) adjusted up while The Bachelor (0.8), Black-ish (R) (0.2), Kenan (0.3) and Ordinary Joe (0.2) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. Fox debuted new drama The Cleaning Lady at 9/8c after the return of 9-1-1: Lone Star. NBC's Kenan moved to Monday with two episodes at 8/7c, leading into new reality series That's My Jam. And ABC had the season premiere of The Bachelor.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 11/22/21

FINALS UPDATE: Dancing with the Stars (0.9), The Good Doctor (0.5), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (0.6) and NCIS: Hawai'i (R) (0.3) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. ABC's Dancing with the Stars finished its season, up against CBS holiday classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 11/15/21

FINALS UPDATE: Dancing with the Stars (0.7) and 9-1-1 (0.7) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 11/1/21

FINALS UPDATE: The Voice (0.8) adjusted up while The Good Doctor (0.4) and 4400 (0.1) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 10/25/21

FINALS UPDATE: Dancing with the Stars (0.7) and NCIS: Hawai'i (R) (0.3) adjusted up while Ordinary Joe (0.3) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. The CW premiered new drama 4400 after the return of All American. With its timeslot taken by the World Series later in the week, Fox's The Masked Singer aired a Monday retrospective special.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 10/18/21

FINALS UPDATE: The Neighborhood (0.7) and The Voice (0.8) adjusted up while The Big Leap (0.2) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 10/11/21

FINALS UPDATE: Dancing with the Stars (0.7) and NCIS (0.6) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 10/4/21

FINALS UPDATE: NCIS: Hawai'i (0.5) and The Voice (1.0) adjusted up while Ordinary Joe (0.3) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 9/27/21

FINALS UPDATE: The Neighborhood (0.7) and The Voice (1.0) adjusted up while Dancing with the Stars (0.7) and The Good Doctor (0.4, -0.2) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• The news didn't improve for last week's slow-starting newbie dramas, with NBC's Ordinary Joe (0.36) plummeting by 31% week-to-week. The Big Leap (0.25) was not down a huge percent from last week's disastrous start, but it came on a night when 9-1-1 (0.85) perked up noticeably, so its retention dropped to a horrible 29%. The best week two newbie hold was NCIS: Hawai'i (0.50) which was down just a hundredth on a steady-ish night for CBS in general.

•  And ABC ended up with a soft night after getting slammed by preemptions in finals updates, with Dancing with the Stars (0.72) taking a big dip from last week and the season premiere of The Good Doctor (0.41) posting a new series low.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 9/20/21

FINALS UPDATE: The Voice (1.1) adjusted up while Time100 (0.3) and The Big Leap (0.3) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Premiere Monday saw a trio of underwhelming new drama premieres. Fox's The Big Leap (0.29) fared worst out of the gate, with just 38% retention of its 9-1-1 lead-in (0.76). And it's not like this was some huge episode of 9-1-1; the show was way down from its last premiere (a 1.2 in January) and couldn't even get close to its 1.0ish level from the late spring.

• On NBC, Ordinary Joe (0.52) was a little below 50% of its lead-in from The Voice (1.08), whose first Ariana Grande episode had the best year-to-year trend among the returnees on Premiere Monday. For Ordinary Joe, this looked pretty similar to how Bluff City Law started a couple years ago (0.81 out of a 1.7), which is not promising.

• CBS had the first-ever timeslot move for NCIS (0.73), airing in the 9/8c hour and launching new spin-off NCIS: Hawai'i. The 70%ish retention for Hawai'i was markedly worse than the 90%ish level for the Los Angeles and New Orleans premieres, though this one did have the disadvantage of the 10/9c hour. NCIS along with its lead-in comedy hour The Neighborhood (0.63) and Bob Hearts Abishola (0.54) were all down 20%ish from last fall's premieres.

• ABC held off for a week on the return of The Good Doctor but did have the return of Dancing with the Stars (0.92), which could not keep up with the breakout season last year but still had a better Plus than the last few premieres before that.
  

SpotVault - Ordinary Joe (NBC) - Fall 2021 Ratings

Ordinary Joe

Mondays, 10/9c, NBC

Status: ENDING after this season (confirmed on 3/4/2022)