American Horror Story: Coven
Up: Coven was a bit all over the place, ratings-wise, but never lost hold of its title as the most successful American Horror Story season yet. The premiere was watched by 5.54 million people, and the finale brought in a middling 4.24 million. The lowest-rated penultimate episode pulled in 3.35 million, which is still more viewers than any episode in season one.
Duck Dynasty
Down: The A&E reality megahit had been climbing steadliy ever since it premiered in 2012. Ratings went from around 2 million for season one to nearly 12 million for the season four premiere. The season-four finale brought in around 8.9 million viewers, and season five was poised to possibly be the series' biggest season yet until it was announced in December that patriarch Phil Robertson was suspended from filming after he gave an interview with GQ in which he made some disparaging remarks about the LGBT community. Season five premiered to 8.49 million viewers, and the third episode brought in just 6.65 million—Duck Dynasty's lowest rating since season two.
The Mindy Project
Up: For the most part, The Mindy Project has stayed fairly steady this season, hovering between two and three million viewers, with numbers just ever so slightly lower than they were for season one. However, the January 21st episode, which also acted as a mid-mid-season finale of sorts, brought in 3.02 million, which is the highest rating since the season premiere. Perhaps people heard about the (SPOILER!) best, sexiest airplane kiss ever and finally wised up to check out the show.
Glee
Down: Just ahead of its 100th episode, Glee is currently experiencing its lowest ratings ever. After premiering to 5.06 million, viewership fell to 2.84 million for the November 28th episode. The midseason finale and holiday-themed episode brought in only 3.29 million viewers.
Supernatural
Up: Despite suffering a Belieber-fueled attempted boycott, the long-running CW drama is doing well in its ninth season. Not a single episode has rated below 2 million viewers (a bonafide hit in CW terms), and the episodes on Jan. 21st and Jan. 28 pulled in the highest numbers since season six with nearly 3 million viewers. Makes perfect sense the network is doing a Supernatural spinoff, called, Supernatural: Tribes that will focus on a new scuffle between monsters and hunters in Chicago.
American Idol
Down: Last season, the singing competition that once gave us Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood premiered to nearly 18 million viewers, then hovered around 15 or 16 million for the next few weeks of auditions. The finale, in which Candice Glover was crowned as the winner, brought in 14.3 million. Season 13, which features Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez, and Harry Connick Jr. as judges, along with a slightly revitalized format, premiered to just 15.2 million viewers, then fell to between 12 and 14 million for the next few rounds of auditions.
The Goldbergs
Up: While not nearly as buzzy as the occasionally star-studded New Girl or the Golden Globe-winning Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the ABC 80's flashback comedy is regularly the most-watched comedy on Tuesday nights, even when its lead-in (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) is a repeat. The show's viewership, which is typically between 4 and 6 million live viewers, is especially impressive when you factor in DVR and online viewing. In the 18-49 demographic, the January 14th episode improved by 56% in the week after it aired.
Parks and Recreation
Down: Despite the fact that we said goodbye to Chris (Rob Lowe) and Ann (Rashida Jones), the NBC comedy only pulled in 2.6 million for its January 30th episode, making "Ann and Chris" the lowest rated episode this season and the second lowest rated episode ever. Contrary to Ron Swanson's belief, there is not a single breakfast food on the planet that can cure our all-consuming drepression. The up side? NBC boss Robert Greenblatt said Parks is pretty much guaranteed another season.
Community
Up: While ratings for the recently rejuvenated NBC comedy haven't changed drastically, they are higher for season five so far, which has seen the return of creator Dan Harmon, the death of Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase) and the departure of Troy Barnes (Donald Glover). Viewership hasn't fallen below 3 million since the season premiere, and even climbed for episode three after the two-episode premiere night. We'll take anything we can get if it brings us any closer to six seasons and a movie!
Intelligence
Down: The CBS drama, starring Lost's Josh Holloway, CSI's Marg Helgenberger, and Once Upon a Time's Meghan Ory, premiered to a whopping 16.5 million viewers on a Tuesday, with the ratings powerhouse NCIS as a lead-in. But when Intelligence came back on Monday, in its regular night, up against shows like Castle and The Blacklist, only 6.1 million people managed to tune in. That's a loss of 63 percent. In the adults 18-49 demo, the series went from a 2.4 to a 1.1. Even fewer people tuned into the the third episode, which managed to bring in less than 5.8 million. The third episode did climb a tiny bit to 6.8 million, but that's still a mere fraction of the premiere numbers.
Girls
Up: After a few months of star and creator Lena Dunham showing up in various aesthetics-related news stories, season three of the HBO series premiered to its highest numbers yet - 1.1 million. That may not seem impressive, but typically the show doesn't even come close to a million.
Enlisted
Up: The new FOX comedy started out a bit slow in its Friday timeslot with a premiere to 2.41 million viewers. That number dropped to 2.1 million in week two before the show changed timeslots. Now with Bones as a lead-in, ratings have improved by over a million to 3.23 million viewers.