TV News: New Series ‘New Girl,’ ‘Unforgettable’ Open With Strong Ratings

CHICAGO – Demographic numbers aren’t in yet and there certainly isn’t a story as huge as Monday night’s ludicrous ratings for “Two and a Half Men,” but we thought you might want to know that FOX’s “New Girl [18]” and CBS’s “Unforgettable [19]” seem to be off to good starts. “Glee” was down in its season premiere while “Ringer” dropped in its second week.

Unforgettable Photo credit: CBS

“New Girl” brought in a 7.4 rating overnight, a very strong opening night number, surely buoyed by positive reviews, including a 4.5 out of 5 from our own Patrick McDonald. Coming out of a 6.6 rating for “Glee,” the Zooey Deschanel comedy actually improved on its popular lead-in. The night dipped a bit to the 4.7 rating for “Raising Hope [20],” but that was just a bit down from its first-season premiere of 4.9. With the hype that comes with series premieres, maintaining those numbers to the second-season is pretty good news. Watch “Raising Hope” people. It’s great.

In other new series news, “Unforgettable” debuted at 9pm CST last night with a very good 9.3 household rating. That impressive number was up from the second-hour of a double “NCIS” premiere last year. This year, “NCIS” notched a 12.2 and “NCIS: Los Angeles” was up from last year with a 10.6. CBS dominates Tuesday nights and “Unforgettable” looks to be another hit. We’ll see what happens next week.

Speaking of second-week drops, “Ringer” fell 28% from its strong (for CW) premiere numbers and notched a 1.8 household rating. Not horrible for The CW but ratings better not continue to drop.

In other news, “Body of Proof [21]” notched a 6.9 household rating, which was actually down from last year’s series premiere of “Detroit 1-8-7.” If those numbers don’t improve, ABC could pull the plug on the Dana Delany procedural. The second week of “Parenthood” notched a 3.8 rating — not a strong number but demos will tell more of the tale for this always-on-the-bubble show.

[22]	By BRIAN TALLERICO [23] Content Director HollywoodChicago.com brian@hollywoodchicago.com [22]