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    Ratings: Cougar Town Returns to All-Time Low

    Courteney Cox and Busy Phillips | Photo Credits: Richard Foreman/ABC

    Can we give the Cougar Town crew an A for trying?

    Despite the cast and producers' valiant guerrilla marketing effort for the long-delayed third season, the comedy returned Tuesday to 4.8 million viewers and a 1.8 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demo — both series lows.

    Social TV: Cougar Town creator offers ponies, drunken raves to loyal fans

    The silver lining? The show suffered relatively small drops in both measures — 4 and 10 percent, respectively — from the Season 2 finale (when it aired on Wednesdays after Modern Family) and posted the highest retention rate out of Last Man Standing (82 percent) all season.

    Still, Cougar Town's premiere numbers are below those of the timeslot's previous (and now-canceled) occupants Man Up and Work It.

    CBS won the night, powered by NCIS, which drew 19.4 million viewers and a 3.9 rating.

    8 p.m.
    CBS:
    NCIS 19.4 million viewers (3.9 demo rating)
    ABC: Last Man Standing 7.6 million (2.2); Cougar Town 4.8 million (1.8)
    Fox: Glee 6.9 million (2.8)
    NBC: The Biggest Loser  5.8 million (2.0) [8-10 p.m.]
    CW: Hart of Dixie (R) 0.7 million (0.3)

    9 p.m.
    CBS: NCIS: Los Angeles 16 million viewers (3.2)
    ABC: The River 4.9 million (1.7)
    Fox: New Girl 6.6 million (3.2); Raising Hope 4.68 million (2.1)
    CW: Ringer 1.07 million (0.3)

    10 p.m.
    CBS: Unforgettable 10.9 million viewers (2.0)
    ABC: Body of Proof 6.1 million (1.2)
    NBC: Parenthood 4.4 million (1.6)

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    27 comments

    • sharon  •  Kansas City, Missouri  •  2 months ago
      The cast is good but too gimmicky---and predictable. Blame the writing.
    • Risa  •  Port Murray, New Jersey  •  3 months ago
      I love the show - the cast is hysterical. When U take a show off for that long though, it is bound not to do well. I hope it finds it's old audience again. I do love it.
      • Dubbledub 2 months ago
        Really? That fugly blonde that still acts like a 13 year old girl is "hysterical"? Wow, you don't require much...
    • gardener224  •  St Louis, Missouri  •  2 months ago
      This is a very funny show, why get rid of it? Probably had low ratings because no one knew when it was coming back, come on 9 months is a long time to wait.
    • Doc  •  3 months ago
      I love Cougar Town! it's my favorite show!
    • VALLEY  •  Grand Rapids, Michigan  •  3 months ago
      I really like the show but as usual you take shows off for too long, then bring them back and wonder why they don't do well. So many good shows get taken off or moved to cable or put on late at 10pm. Panam is a great show but it's on at 10pm on Sunday nights when everyone is in bed already. And watch, it will get cancelled. But we can get forced to watch 2 hrs of the Biggest Loser or "Minute to win it" or whatever it was, and it was on every stinking night! I don't mind a little of Biggest Loser but 2 hrs??? Friday Night Lights and Southland were great but both got moved to cable. Ridiculous.
    • Rayne  •  Columbia, South Carolina  •  3 months ago
      Honestly like the show to me it's just a feel good goofy show
    • Chuck  •  Schaumburg, Illinois  •  2 months ago
      This show was dead last year, it just never fell over....
    • Ena  •  Biloxi, Mississippi  •  2 months ago
      I also found this show to be funny as well as entertaining. Now what ? Sure my family and i will be changing networks. At least for that slot.
    • rita  •  San Rafael, California  •  2 months ago
      Courtney Cox needs to retire....her cuteness is irritating, her Friends personna is no longer interesting and talent? Sure, she could move a little bit when she was 16 and dancing with Bruce Springsteen, but that was it.....It's time for all those Friends to realize their egos expire with the last rerun. "We just aren't there for you "sung in a whiney voice as 1994 passes us by once again.
      • Ena 2 months ago
        Are you serious? Try to find SOMETHING good in everyone ! You maybe suprised !She is not cute she is a BEAUTIFUL person ! Let me add very,very talented !!! We look foward every week to watch her along with the rest of the cast.I never watched "friends" my family and i found this show funny as well as make you feel good.
    • spunky  •  Warren, Oregon  •  2 months ago
      About time...
    • Jeff S  •  3 months ago
      I'd bang the blonde chick
    • Jasper  •  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  •  3 months ago
      Not a bad show, just a bit on the irrelevant side, one you can watch or miss, and you won't miss anything. Of course reruns of NCIS are always available to watch all night long if nothing else is on!
    • Brett  •  Newark, New Jersey  •  3 months ago
      Show is unwatchable. Cougars should be hot. Cox needs a time machine to get back to 1994.
    • Chris  •  3 months ago
      Should have been Courtney Cox with some new faces. Can't stand watching the blonde chick or the one from scrubs.
    • Haines  •  Tucson, Arizona  •  3 months ago
      Characters are unlikable, annoying, Rude ! need i go on!
    • Jeffrey H  •  Orlando, Florida  •  3 months ago
      It's just not funny!
    • monkey face dog  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 months ago
      i did like cougar, but this all they do is drink thing got old.its as if they need to drink to get through doing each show themselves. one thing kill the drinking, and let them all grow up.
    • Dubbledub  •  Salt Lake City, Utah  •  2 months ago
      This show is a colossal dog turd. It's so silly and unrealistic - seriously unwatchable. That it has any audience at all, when there is so much good programming available, is amazing. Really horrible.
    • star_spangled_socialist  •  Lennon, Michigan  •  3 months ago
      What self respecting guy is gonna want some musky old, dried out cougar? Give me a 20 year old anyday.
      • McCain2008 3 months ago
        I agree...why go down on a 45 year old vagina when there's fresh #$%$ to enjoy? Makes no sense. This cougar thing was titilating at first but, as old vaginas do...has grown stale to the taste.
    • Theresa  •  Santa Clara, California  •  3 months ago
      They cancel Pan Am but put this stupid assed show on for another year. Courtney Cox must not be much of a Couger, she couldn't keep Ashton Kutcher happy!
      • Kim 3 months ago
        Ashton's right hand keeps him plenty happy.
      • T 3 months ago
        that was demi moore not courtney cox. demi has a better plastic surgen.
      • Dani 3 months ago
        When you comment-know how to spell and know what you are talking about.

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