Ratings: Scream Queens Slips Again 

this Tuesday drew 2.9 million total viewers and a 1.1 rating, down 17 and 21 percent week-to-week. Versus its premiere, the freshman horror-comedy is now down 27 and 35 percent.

(3.8 mil/1.1) dropped 28 and 27 percent from its debut, while

returned to 3.4 mil and a 1.4, down from both its boffo series debut (4.8 mil/1.9) and its freshman finale (3.9 mil/1.5) while matching its Season 1 average.

(1.7 mil/0.7) was down a tenth from its March debut and up two tenths from its June finale.

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Ratings for TV shows in the Chicago market might not be so great tonight.

They will be back up for the rest of October after tonight.

For sure. When they win tonight the three largest TV markets will have teams in the playoffs

Will NY be the same draw with just the Mets in the playoffs now that the Yankees have already been eliminated?

Not surprised about SQ. But WTF? The Muppets is pretty damn good! It might be a bit more adult, and I would dare to say not even that much, but it’s pretty damn funny and has quite a bit of heart. Fongers crossed for it to survive the season…

I agree I’m enjoying the muppets reboot as well

My husband and I really like it! Totally for adults and so funny!

I think that’s why The Muppets is down. Parents tuned in with their kids and found it not suitable for the kids.

Fongers sounds like a really cool muppet. :)

If it drops another 20% in the coming week you can be sure that it’s a goner. ABC though might try to flip the slot with FOTB to give it some room to give it some lead-in boost.

Put on Galvent in that spot and the ratings might be better .

I’m not surprised scream queens keeps losing viewers I give all new shows a real chance but I had to give up 8 minutes in last night

I tortured myself through the 2hr premiere and felt angry for the 2hrs i wasted.

I wanted to quit after 5 minutes into the pilot, still have it a chance but by 30 min, I just couldn’t. Such hateful characters and annoying situations. Never ever did this before.

I didn’t even make it to 2 hours, I quit after 40 minutes it was that awful and bad.

You can’t take an unlikable actress as the lead, give her an unlikable character to play and expect people to watch. I feel bad for Jamie Lee Curtis and the very funny Niecy Nash though.

I’m not so sure its even about the unlikeable actress (an assessment with which I agree). Its about the unlikeable character being a bad person. You can have a likeable person do bad things (Walter White or Barney Stinson), but you can’t make a character unlikeable AND do bad things. That’s why Lone Star failed, and its why this is failing.

Emma Roberts isn’t the lead. Skyler Samuels is.

Maybe plot wise, but Emma has been front and center in the add build up and promotion of the show.

There’s no hope for FOX on Tuesdays. I’d be surprised if any of the shows lasted past the initial 13 episode order. Grinder will be below a 1.0 next week despite all the hype.

Scream Queens is an utter disappointment storywise. It’s a borefest.

Grinder’s central premise about an actor being a lawyer is being taken TOO FAR. I thought he would help out with doing the talking and negotiating, but him trying to run a firm and completely ignoring the law is just too much. The family stuff is great, the lawyer stuff is awful. What they should have done is have the Grinder move back to his hometown and hang out with his family, and only have a few scenes of him bugging his bro at work.

I’ve been enjoying The Grinder because while the premise is ridiculous, it’s sort of the whole point. I think it’s marketed in a way where the concept is to be taken seriously, but really the show is just one big parody of the ridiculousness of TV courtroom dramas and general TV dramatics.

I made it through about 7 minute of the Grinder, and that was seven minutes too long a slog though garbage. What drek!

Scream Queens is a hit on social media(?!),but flops on TV.LOL SC is dead.

If IZombie was up from its finale, how could that be a record low……..? (FTR,

No,IZombies record low in demo is 0.5 for its s1 finale.As for viewers I’m not sure,

Scream Queens ratings continue to drop even with major Fox/cast/producer promotion. (Ryan Murphy was retweeting up a storm last night). Wonder if they’ll keep saying it’s the social platform and Live+3 ratings that matter? Or will they admit that the show isn’t working?

It’s barely doing better than Minority Report and most people seem to think that will be cancelled soon. I don’t think Scream Queens will be far behind at this rate.

I wonder if Lucifer and The Frankenstein Code have enough episodes in production yet to get on the fall schedule by November, lol. Minority Report might actually drop to 0.3-0.4 levels in the next few weeks.

Scream Queens is probably a lot cheaper to make, and I’m pretty sure the entire run has already been filmed. Just a shame that viewers don’t understand what the the show is.

Fresh Off The Boat was ABC’s highest show last night. Good for them!

Bad news for Fox all around. Praying for The Flash, iZombie and SHIELD’s ratings to hold. Really good shows.

Fox could set a new trend – don’t just cancel a show – just close the network for Tuesday nights

The Flash and Shield both had great episodes last night. As much as I really want to like Limitless it’s slowly losing my attention.

I tried LIMITLESS again last night. It’s fine but it’s just missing “something.” Maybe the new “Walter Steele” character will give it a needed edge.

Jake McDorman is so appealing, but I do think something is not quite working. I’m watching it for him and hoping it improves. Really pulling for it!

Jennifer Carpenter is a lovely woman, and, more importantly, a fine actress. But she was horribly miscast here. Ditto Hil Harper. Those characters don’t work, entirely. They should move Harper and Carpenter’s characters into a steady relationship, immediately. They need some sort of love interest for Jake McDorman’s character, because he has more of a sibling vibe with Carpenter. Their platonic relationship has a lot of potential. They also need a “villain.” I don’t think its the Senator. Its whoever created NZT. .

The broader universe is fascinating on this show, and has a ton of potential. The FBI characters are about as interesting as wet cardboard. That’s the problem.

I agree Matt. I like the show, but last night I found myself losing interest during the last 15 minutes. Then I looked up and paid attention during the final scene in the bar. I hope for a little more intrigue or mystery in the coming episodes.

Don’t know how is Limitless is holding up so well? I’m convinced that there are people that watch CBS no matter what.

Or lazy people that after NCIS don’t feel like changing the channel. Not that there is anything to change the channel to, which might explain it as well.

More bad news for The Muppets and Scream Queens. What’s the worst that could happen?

Who cares Ray? In my opinion, I like Muppets 100x better than Scream Queens.

Scream Queens gets better with each episode. I was disappointed with the premiere, but the last two weeks were HILARIOUS! Watch it for Niecy Nash, shes the star of the show. Hope ratings improve as well.

Right? Niecy Nash is the only good thing about this show!

I agree that Nash is pretty good. But she can’t carry the show by herself, and unfortunately most of the rest of the characters/actors are pretty much duds.

bummer about grandfathered – I thought it was another good episode :)

I like Grandfathered as well, but things aren’t looking good…

I think Scream Queens had its best episode last night. I agree the show isn’t for everyone, but its an entertaining show, in that it’s a show that makes fun of itself, its very sattirical. And yes, Niecy Nash does make the show that much more enjoyable!

I really like Scream Queens. Many of my friends and family like it too. A shame about the ratings.

Muppets has a bit of an advantage for ABC — merchandising. With a lot of shows, the only other route to money comes from DVD releases, but having Muppets on TV has to be increasing sales in that huge amount of Muppet-related merchandise.

Happy for Fresh Off The Boat. That show is very good. I also like The Muppets and that not doing well makes me sad because it’s a fun show.

Yay for Fresh off the Boat. Sad to see Grandfathered slip so much, but definitely better than the Grinder. I wanted to love the show because of Rob Lowe, but could barely make it through the episode.

Do you think scream queens will be canceled with the ratings it has?

I have a feeling Fox won’t want to admit its failure, given how relentlessly they promoted this show for months (they surely were thinking this was a guaranteed hit). Plus they love Ryan Murphy. So I think they’ll let the season continue to play out with crappy ratings on Tuesday nights, they’ll continue to note how it’s big on social media (as if that matters), and then they just won’t renew it for a second season. With most shows doing so poorly on their schedule, it’s not like they have something to replace it with, unless they wanna just air Empire every night.

I’m bummed that Scream Queens isn’t doing so well in the ratings. Its probably my favorite new show. I pretty much laugh throughout the whole show. I’m a huge camp and satire fan plus I love horror comedy so its right up my alley. One of my favorite movies of all time is Heathers and I can see its influence in the show. I know they’ll air the whole season but I hope they get a renewal. Also, are iZombie’s numbers good enough to film the additional scripts that were ordered?

I agree! We are Scream Queen’s target market. And we are very satisfied. I love the Heathers and Jawbreaker vibe.

Scream Queens started off strong but the last few episodes haven’t been funny or scary. I’ll give it another episode or two but so far it’s been kind of a let down.

Just like tvline reporters to remember earlier when someone (not me) said Scream Queens was a failure and the writer popped on to say “someone’s not watching the ratings”. In reply I said watch it sink. “Fox’s Scream Queens this Tuesday drew 2.9 million total viewers and a 1.1 rating, down 17 and 21 percent week-to-week. Versus its premiere, the freshman horror-comedy is now down 27 and 35 percent.” It sank, tho I have to say the next few episodes were much better than the absolutely unfunny crap beginning.

Peeps need to give Scream Queens time, it is without a doubt THE funniest show to hit our screens in years. You need to watch each episode at least twice to fully realise how clever the show is.

Bummer about scream queens although I can’t imagine them cancelling it given that it has a contained single season arc. Season 2 seems pretty unlikely though. Oh well, I will enjoy it while it lasts. As long as iZombie and Sheild survive I will be happy.

Looks like the Muppets aren’t as popular as they used to be.

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