Ratings: CBS Wins Night With ACM Awards; 'GCB' Slips

Ratings: CBS Wins Night With ACM Awards; 'GCB' Slips

Though down slightly from last year's presentation, the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards performed well enough to give CBS an overall win Sunday night, while ABC's "GCB" and Fox's Sunday night animation block both took hits, according to preliminary numbers.

CBS took first in the advertiser-cherished 18-49 demographic and total viewers with an average 26 rating/7 share and 12.2 million. "60 Minutes" at 7 drew a 1.3/4 in the demo and 9.9 million total viewers. The 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards telecast from 8 to 11 was down 6 percent in the demo from last year's broadcast, drawing a 3.1/8. It had 13 million total viewers. Even with the slight dip, the awards show was the night's highest-rated and most-watched program of the night.

ABC came in second in the demo and total viewers with an average 2.1/6 and 6.7 million total viewers. Following an "America's Funniest Home Videos" repeat at 7, "Once Upon a Time" at 8 was down slightly with a 2.7/8 and 8.2 million total viewers. "Desperate Housewives" the following hour was flat with a 2.6/6 and 8.4 million total viewers. "GCB" slid 10 percent to a 1.9/5, and 5.8 million total viewers.

Fox took third place in the demo and fourth place in total viewers with an average 1.7/5 and 3.6 million. After a "Simpsons" repeat at 7, "The Cleveland Show" at 7:30 was down 20 percent with a 1.2/4, and 2.8 million total viewers. Another "Simpsons" repeat followed at 8. "Bob's Burgers" at 8:30 slipped 20 percent for a 1.6/4, and 3.6 million total viewers. "Family Guy" at 9 was down 11 percent to a 2.5/6, and 5 million total viewers. "American Dad" at 9:30 performed flat with last week, receiving a 2.5/6. It had 4.2 million total viewers.

NBC came in fourth in ratings and third in total viewers with an average 1.6/4 and 5.6 million. "Dateline" was steady with last week for a 1.0/3 and 4.6 million total viewers, while "Celebrity Apprentice" from 8 to 11 was also even with last week, posting a 1.8/5 and 5.9 million total viewers.

TV Tonight 3rd of April 2012

TV Tonight 3rd of April 2012

The daily list in alphabetical order, of all the new episodes airing.

    112 - på liv och död S05E35: "Del 35 av 36"
    16 & Pregnant S04E03: "Briana"
    60 Minute Makeover S09E07: "Series 9, Episode 7"
    Animal 24:7 S08E02: "Series 8, Episode 2"
    Balls Of Steel Australia S02E10: "Season 2, Episode 10"
    Battleground S01E08: "TBA"
    Best Ink S01E02: "Talk Is Talk"
    Big Brother Sverige S08E39: "Del 39"
    Body Of Proof S02E19: "Going Viral, Part 2"
    Bomb Patrol Afghanistan S01E12: "Route X Part One"
    Bondi Vet S04E09: "Season 4, Episode 9"
    Breaking In S02E05: "Cyrano de Nerdgerac"
    Chopped S11E07: "Viewers' Choice!"
    Cleverdicks S01E27: "Episode 27"
    Come Dine With Me S18E68: "Series 18, Episode 57"
    Conan S02E72: "Mike Tyson, Chris Elliott, Cy Amundson"
    Cougar Town S03E07: "You Can Still Change Your Mind"
    Dance Academy S02E14: "Rescue Mission"
    Dance Moms S02E13: "Abbygeddon"
    Dancing With the Stars (US) S14E05: "Season 14, Episode 5"
    Days of our Lives S47E102: "Ep. #11812"
    Deal Or No Deal (UK) S07E201: "Episode 1881"
    Den sista dokusåpan S01E05: "Season 1, Episode 5"
    Dickinson's Real Deal S08E86: "Series 8, Episode 86"
    Doctors S14E02: "Deal or No Deal"
    Doomsday Preppers S01E09: "Close the Door, Load the Shotgun"
    EastEnders S28E55: "April 3, 2012"
    Emmerdale S41E79: "April 3, 2012"
    Facejacker S02E02: "Series 2, Episode 2"
    Fashion Star S01E04: "High-End Appeal/Mass Market Appeal"
    Four In A Bed S03E17: "Hotel La Tartana"
    General Hospital (US) S50E02: "#12530"
    Giuliana & Bill S05E01: "The Battle Begins"
    Go Girls S04E08: "TBA"
    Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden S22E152: "Season 22, Episode 152"
    Hardcore Pawn S05E16: "Family Traitor!"
    Hit the Road Jack S01E03: "Glasgow"
    Holby City S14E25: "Throw in the Towel"
    Hollyoaks S18E67: "April 3, 2012"
    Home and Away (AU) S25E52: "Episode 5487"
    Horizon S50E13: "The Hunt for AI"
    Jeopardy! S28E142: "Show #6347"
    Jimmy Kimmel Live S09E230
    Just A Minute (1212) S01E07: "Episode 7"
    Justified S03E12: "Coalition"
    Kimi to Boku S02E01: "Episode 1"
    Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness S01E24
    Last Call with Carson Daly S10E34
    Last Man Standing S01E21: "Wherefore Art Thou, Mike Baxter"
    Late Night with Jimmy Fallon S02E245
    Late Show with David Letterman S19E51
    Live with Regis and Kelly S29E156
    My Ride Rules S02E06: "TBA"
    Naruto SD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden S01E01
    Neighbours S28E62: "Episode 6372"
    New Girl S01E19: "Secrets"
    Panorama S60E13: "The Great Apprentice Scandal"
    Pointless S06E36: "Series 6, Episode 36"
    Property Virgins S11E13: "Needle in a Haystack"
    Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is S06E07: "Series 6, Episode 7"
    Queen's Blade: Rurou no Senshi S03E01: "Episode 1"
    Raising Hope S02E20: "Sabrina's New Jimmy"
    Ringer S01E20: "If You're Just An Evil Bitch Then Get Over It"
    Rookie Builders S01E03: "Episode 3"
    Smugglers S02E01: "Series 2, Episode 1"
    Storage Wars: Texas S02E10: "TBA"
    Storage Wars: Texas S02E09: "TBA"
    Supersize vs Superskinny S05E06: "Chris Longley / Nathan Smith"
    Tabatha Takes Over S04E12: "TBA"
    The Biggest Loser S13E14: "Season 13, Episode 14"
    The Bold and the Beautiful S26E08: "Ep. #6292"
    The Chase (2009) S05E46: "Series 5, Episode 46"
    The Colbert Report S08E45: "Gov. Nikki Haley"
    The Daily Show S17E81: "Tom Goldstein"
    The Ellen DeGeneres Show S09E130
    The Game S05E12: "There's No Place Like Home"
    The Hairy Bikers' Bakeation S01E04: "Eastern Europe"
    The Jeremy Kyle Show S07E142
    The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson S08E53
    The Little Couple S05E06: "TBA"
    The Little Couple S05E05: "Four Little Embryos"
    The Murdoch Mysteries (2008) S05E06
    The Real Housewives Of Orange County S07E08
    The Revolution (2012) S01E57: "Season 1, Episode 57"
    The Syndicate (UK) S01E02: "Episode 2"
    The Talk S02E137: "Season 2, Episode 137"
    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno S19E271
    The View S15E130
    The Voice (US) S02E11: "Week 9 Part 2"
    The Young and the Restless S40E07: "Ep. #9876"
    Top Gear (US) S02E16: "Worst Cars"
    Top Shot S04E08: "The Mad Minute"
    Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records S01E04: "Episode 4"
    Watch What Happens: Live S06E56
    Zetman S01E01: "Episode 1"
    Интерны S06E02: "Найдите управу на Быкова"

'Britain's Got Talent': Ryan O'Shaughnessy's 'No Name' girl revealed

'Britain's Got Talent': Ryan O'Shaughnessy's 'No Name' girl revealed

The girl who inspired Britain's Got Talent star Ryan O'Shaughnessy's song 'No Name' has been identified.

The 19-year old was seen auditioning for Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, David Walliams and Alesha Dixon on Saturday's (March 31) show with a love song he penned about a mystery girl.

O'Shaughnessy explained that the subject of 'No Name' was a friend of his and declined to give the panel any further details.

However, the girl in question has since been revealed as his "best pal" Katie Lucia Keegan - who expressed an awareness of his supposedly secret crush by outing herself on Twitter during the episode:

"This is sooooooo funny," she wrote. "#noname woooooo it's me #lolololol."

The pair are believed to have met in Portmarnock Community College, Dublin six years ago and attended their school prom together last September.

O'Shaughnessy was revealed to have received the most online searches out of any contestant from either Britain's Got Talent or rival show The Voice UK this weekend.

It has also emerged that he auditioned for both BGT and The Voice of Ireland.

Oprah Winfrey: I Didn't Know Starting a Network Would Be So Hard

Oprah Winfrey: I Didn't Know Starting a Network Would Be So Hard

"Had I known that it was this difficult, I might have done something else," Oprah Winfrey said of OWN on Monday's "CBS This Morning," admitting that she underestimated how hard it would be to launch her own cable network.

"The idea of creating a network was something that I wanted to do … I didn't think it was going to be easy … if I knew then what I know now, I might have made different choices," Winfrey said.

Winfrey's interview -- conducted by Charlie Rose Gayle King, Winfrey's best friend and "CBS This Morning" co-anchor -- follows a spate of bad news for OWN. Winfrey recently announced 30 layoffs and the cancellation of Rosie O'Donnell's OWN talk show, and the research firm SNL Kagan estimated the network could lose $142.9 million this year if its ratings don't improve.

The TV icon said she should have waited to launch OWN, as she said her friend, "Saturday Night Live" executive producer Lorne Michaels, urged her to do.

"I would have probably waited until I actually finished 'The Oprah Show,' because from the day that (Discovery Communications boss) David Zaslav came in to see me, I said to him, 'The thing that I'm most worried about is who's going to lead this train, because I can't do it,'" Winfrey said.

She also said Michaels warned her, "'Nobody wants to see you come off 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' of all those 25 years of success, and step right into the network business. You've got to pay your dues.'"

As for her strategy going forward with OWN -- which she says is "not a failure" -- Winfrey said the network will "do what we should have done from the beginning … build one show, one hour, one night at a time, and then move to the next night."

'Take Me Out' to launch in the US: Fox commissions new dating show

'Take Me Out' to launch in the US: Fox commissions new dating show

Fox has added a new reality series to its summer schedule.

The network is to launch dating show Take Me Out, based on the popular international format.

Take Me Out will feature a group of 30 single women called 'The Flirty 30' who have to decide if a bachelor is a good match based on first impressions.

Each week, the show has the women meeting several bachelors who must individually impress them with their looks, personality and sense of humour.

Each woman stands at a lighted podium with a switch to keep the light on if she likes the bachelor or to turn the light off if she is unimpressed.

Control of the show is then reversed if more than one woman still has their lights on at the end of all the rounds. The bachelor will then narrow the field down to two women and ask a final question that will determine his selection.

After the bachelor chooses his date, the remaining 29 along with a new woman will return to the next game to go through the process again.

Take Me Out will debut on Thursday, June 7 at 8pm ET on FOX.

The network's summer schedule already includes the ninth season of So You Think You Can Dance and Gordon Ramsay's three reality series, Hell's Kitchen, MasterChef and Hotel Hell.

'The Apprentice' candidates living in £7m house

'The Apprentice' candidates living in £7m house

This year's Apprentice candidates have been living in a house worth almost £7m, it has been revealed.

The luxury home used by the 16 hopefuls competing to be named Lord Alan Sugar's next business partner has been identified as an eight-bedroom property in Westminster.

The residence - valued at £6,940,300 by Zoopla - boasts six bathrooms, three reception rooms and is located close to Kensington Gardens.

The house is an upgrade on the one leased to the 2011 Apprentice cast, which cost £4.4m and is owned by classical singer Katherine Jenkins.

Bilyana Apostolova and Maria O'Connor were the first two candidates fired from this year's competition.

Inventor Tom Pellereau won a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar in the last series of The Apprentice and launched his nail file business last month.

'The Killing' Season 2 Premiere Falters

'The Killing' Season 2 Premiere Falters

"The Killing" must have felt a little bit wounded Monday morning.

AMC's drama had its second season premiere Sunday night, and it appears that the series has dropped a number of viewers compared to its first season premiere.

Also read: Killer Ratings for "Kennedys," "Killing," "Borgias"

The initial airing of Sunday's two-hour premiere at 8 p.m. drew 1.8 million total viewers -- a good sight short of the 2.7 million total viewers who tuned in for its series premiere last April.

With an 11 p.m. encore factored in, the premiere took in 2.5 million total viewers -- just short of the amount that tuned in for last season's premiere initial airing.

Granted, the season one premiere of "The Killing" was AMC's second most-viewed premiere for an original series in its history, behind "The Walking Dead," which averaged 5.3 million total viewers on Halloween 2010.

Sunday's "The Killing" premiere drew a household rating of 1.4 with its initial airing, and a 2.0 for the two airings.

Among the key 25-54 demo, "The Killing" drew 857,000 viewers with the 8 p.m. airing and 1.2 million overall for the night -- off just slightly from its first season average.

Last June's season finale of "The Killing" drew 2.3 million total viewers, with a 1.8 household share.