Ratings: ‘Sleepy Hollow’ finale, ‘Grimm’ season 5 rise; ‘The Vampire Diaries’ falls

While we know that “Sleepy Hollow” is getting a ton of attention right now for what happened on its season 3 finale, it really wasn’t getting any of that before the episode. With that in mind, there was really no time for it to have its ratings impacted by what transpired (except for maybe on the West Coast if they went and ruined it for themselves in advance).

The good news – Luckily for Fox, the show made at least some improvement for what was Nicole Beharie’s last episode as a regular. The finale drew a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic, which is not great but not a complete disaster on Fridays. Still, we don’t know why the network would renew it given that it’s likely they’ll lose even more viewers in a fourth season. Ichabod and Abbie’s relationship was the big selling point.

Elsewhere, the other major highlight came for the recently-released “Grimm,” which drew its second-highest rating of the season out of nowhere in a 1.0. That’s the sort of thing that NBC has to especially love given that we are in the spring, otherwise known as a time in which ratings fall.

While not wonderful news, “The Amazing Race” (1.1), “Hawaii Five-0” (1.1), and “Blue Bloods” (1.2) were at least steady versus their most-recent episodes.

The bad news – For “The Vampire Diaries,” it is now back down to a 0.4 rating for its second episode back post-hiatus. “Shark Tank” (1.2) also failed to defeat “Blue Bloods” in the demo, which shows further that this show is clearly past its pop-culture zenith … even if we think it will stick around because it has to be cheap to make.