Ratings: ‘Castle’ season 8 improves; ‘The X-Files,’ ‘Lucifer,’ ‘The Bachelor’ down versus Grammys

We all knew that the Grammy Awards were going to prove to be a rather huge draw on Monday, and as a result of that, it would be rather tricky for some other shows to find much of an audience. A few of them succeeded all things considered, but there were also some others that had a pretty significant dent put into their numbers.

The good news – We’re not sure just how much you call this “good news,” but “Castle” improved from its Sunday airing in drawing a 0.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic. Is this going to get the show renewed? Probably not, so there is a definite fear of it ending if the ratings do not at least get back over the 1.0 threshold again. (Let’s go and question putting this under “good news” again; it’s just the only non-Grammys show to improve compared to a recent episode.)

Of course, the Grammys killed it and won the night with a 7.4 rating. While down in some measures versus the year before, it’s still a monster telecast.

We’re going to go ahead and throw in here “The X-Files,” given that a 2.1 rating, while down, is still very good all things considered. Our feeling was that if the show draws more than a 2.0 all season, it will probably get more episodes.

The bad news – Pretty much everything else was down. “The Biggest Loser” slid further to a 0.9, “Lucifer” hit its lowest rating to date in a 1.6, and “Superstore” declined to a 1.2. What we will say is that we do think the two new shows just mentioned here will be renewed, and obviously the same goes for “The Bachelor” (2.2), which won the night among regularly-scheduled programs.