* FOX. “Glee” hit another new all-time high (even without the help of “American Idol”!). It’s prior personal best was a 5.6. “Glee” is now indisputably the highest rated scripted series in primetime. “Raising Hope” didn’t rise with it and “Running Wilde” lost ground, hitting the lowest score of any Tuesday series on the Big Four. “Running Wilde’s” 1.9 is cancellation-worthy, but Fox has kept sitcoms (“Til Death,” “Brothers”) on with a lot less.
* CBS. “NCIS” and “NCIS LA” both rebounded but are still down from their last fall. “The Good Wife” was down from its 3.1 season-one premiere last fall but won its timeslot for the first time since “Parenthood” premiered, besting both “Parenthood” and “Detroit 187.” “Wife’s” complete first-run track record looks like this:
* ABC. The “No Ordinary Family” premiere was third in its timeslot with a 3.2, a little soft for an ABC sci-fi launch. ABC’s “V” premiere won that timeslot with a 5.0 last autumn. ABC’s “FlashForward” premiere won its 8 p.m. Thursday timeslot last fall with a 4.0. ABC’s final season premiere of “Lost” won its timeslot early this year with a 5.5. A newly Hoff-free “Dancing With The Stars” was down from the 4.4 it scored in the 9 p.m. slot last Tuesday but it was up if one averages both its hours from last Tuesday. “Detroit 187” slipped to an anemic 2.1 but it still (barely) beat the lowest-rated “Parenthood” ever.
* NBC. “Biggest Loser,” which dominated Tuesdays all last season, just hit its lowest score since I started keeping track last September. “Parenthood,” which won its slot all last spring, hit its worst number ever. It spent its first 90 minutes in fourth place, rising to third at 9:30 p.m. by overtaking “Running Wilde.” Its prior nadir was a 2.3.
* MTV. “Teen Mom” beat both NBC’s “Parenthood” and ABC’s “Detroit 187” at 10 p.m. and came dang close to beating first-place “The Good Wife” at that hour. I’m assuming this is an all-time high for the documentary series. Blame the promos on MTV’s Thursday megahit “Jersey Shore.”
* FX. “Sons of Anarchy” hit its lowest score since I started keeping track last September.
* THE CW. “One Tree Hill” rose a bit. “Life Unexpected” can probably expect an unexpectedly short life.
* SYFY. “Stargate Universe” returned with a 0.5, way down from the 0.9 it scored with its series premiere last fall. Syfy’s Tuesday-night predecessor, “Warehouse 13,” never got below a 0.7 during its just-concluded run. SGU’s complete track record looks like this:
0.5 - (0.5) (0.4) (0.5) (0.6) (0.6) (0.6) (0.4) (0.5) (0.6) (0.6) (0.5) (0.8) (0.7) (0.7) (0.8) (0.8) (0.9) (1.0) (0.9)