Ratings: ‘America’s Got Talent’ slips; ‘Love in the Wild’ disappoints

When NBC rolled out a pretty heavy promotional campaign for its second season of “Love in the Wild,” it looked as though the network could find a pretty solid performer in it for the summer. After all, it has a high-profile host now in Jenny McCarthy, and also a pretty fantastic lead-in courtesy of “America’s Got Talent.”

However, the ratings for Tuesday night proved that all of this really doesn’t seem to mean much in the minds of viewers.

NBC – While “America’s Got Talent” won the night with a 3.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic (a drop following last week’s season high airing on a Tuesday), McCarthy’s show struggled and posted only a 1.6 rating alongside close to five million viewers for its two-hour premiere. The show is in no danger of being canceled — and could even still be picked up for another season if these numbers hold. However, this still has to go down as a disappointment when there were hopes of something in the low 2 range in the demo.

ABC – The only new program on the night here was the concert for Queen Elizabeth II as a part of her Diamond Jubilee, and the show drew nearly seven million viewers. Unfortunately, it’s 18-49 rating was a low 1.3.

Fox – In their second nights on the airs, both “Hell’s Kitchen” and “MasterChef” scored 2.1 ratings — which is something that the network has to be pleased with consider that two nights a week is a major commitment for such programming, and there was competition elsewhere thanks to the NBA Playoffs.

The CW – For the second straight week, “The Catalina” drew a 0.3 rating — which isn’t good by any means, but is hardly worse than what the network would probably be drawing with repeats in this same timeslot.

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Were you thinking that “Love in the Wild” would get off to a greater start?

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