TV Ratings: The Voice Falls to Season Low; Dancing with the Stars Finale Edges Up From Last Week

This Monday’s broadcast ratings showed a notable dip for NBC’s The Voice and a modest rebound for ABC’s Dancing with the Stars performance finale. Nielsen-reported audience measures put The Voice at its lowest rated performance night this season and its lowest Monday rating for the series, while Dancing with the Stars improved from last week’s series low but remained below previous spring and fall finales.

Summary of key results:

The Voice (NBC) posted a 3.4 adults 18-49 rating, down approximately 11 percent from the prior week’s 3.8. That decline marked the show’s season low and a series low for Monday. In viewership, The Voice drew roughly 10.6 million viewers across the two-hour telecast in the summarized overnight numbers.

Dancing with the Stars (ABC) finished its performance finale with a 2.5 adults 18-49 rating, which represents a 25 percent gain from the series low-tying 2.0 recorded the previous week. However, this 2.5 rating remains below last spring’s performance finale (2.9 on May 21, 2012) by about 14 percent, and also below the fall performance finale (2.7 on November 26, 2012) by roughly 7 percent. In raw viewers, Dancing with the Stars led the night with total audience figures in the mid-teens of millions during its two-hour block.

Primetime network performance (selected overnight ratings and viewership):

8:00–10:00 PM

NBC — The Voice (8–10 PM): Adults 18-49 rating 3.4/10; viewers ~10.6 million.
ABC — Dancing with the Stars (8–10 PM): Adults 18-49 rating 2.5/7; viewers ~14.7 million.

CBS aired repeats of comedies in the 8 PM hour and a series finale at 8:30 PM:

CBS — 2 Broke Girls (R) at 8:00 PM: Adults 18-49 1.2/4; viewers ~5.02 million.
CBS — Rules of Engagement (series finale) at 8:30 PM: Adults 18-49 1.8/5; viewers ~6.25 million.

FOX premiered The Goodwin Games at 8:30 PM and ran repeats at 8 and 9 PM:

FOX — The Goodwin Games (series premiere) at 8:30 PM: Adults 18-49 0.7/2; viewers ~1.75 million.
FOX — Raising Hope (R) at 8:00 PM: Adults 18-49 0.7/2; viewers ~1.77 million.

CW — Oh Sit! across the 8–9 PM hours posted the smallest audience across networks, with ratings around 0.2–0.3 in adults 18-49 and sub-one-million viewers per half-hour.

9:00–10:00 PM

CBS — The Big Bang Theory (R) at 9:00 PM: Adults 18-49 2.2/6; viewers ~7.56 million.
NBC — The Voice continued to deliver strong 18-49 numbers in the 9 PM hour, rising to the high 3.0s in some half-hour measures and keeping the night’s best adult 18-49 ratings overall.

9:30 PM

CBS — Mike & Molly (R) at 9:30 PM: Adults 18-49 2.2/6; viewers ~7.96 million.
FOX — The Mindy Project (R) and New Girl (R) remained in the lower-rated range for the night, each posting adults 18-49 ratings near 0.6/2 and viewership in the 1.3–1.4 million range.

10:00–10:30 PM

CBS — Hawaii Five-0 (season finale) at 10:00 PM: Adults 18-49 2.0/6; viewers ~9.0 million.
NBC — Revolution at 10:00 PM: Adults 18-49 1.9/5; viewers ~5.8 million.
ABC — Motive (series premiere/preview) at 10:00 PM: Adults 18-49 1.4/4; viewers ~6.8 million.

Later half-hour adjustments showed Motive and Hawaii Five-0 trading slight changes in viewers and 18-49 share in the 10:30 PM reporting window, with Hawaii Five-0 maintaining roughly nine million viewers and a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating in that late slot.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data; half-hour breakdown provided in reporting attributed to Marc Berman and industry overnight tallies.

Context and takeaways: The Voice remains a strong performer in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic despite this week’s dip, holding the top adults 18-49 positions across several half-hour intervals. Dancing with the Stars regained some ground from its previous low but still underperformed relative to earlier finales from prior seasons. CBS’s comedy repeats and series wrap-up episodes delivered moderate audiences, while FOX and the CW trailed with significantly smaller shares. The 10 PM hour showed CBS’s Hawaii Five-0 finishing the evening with solid total viewers, and ABC used the post-finale slot to preview its new series Motive with competitive late-night sampling.

These overnight ratings provide an immediate window into viewer behavior for the night, with final national ratings and delayed viewing metrics released later to complete the full performance picture for advertisers and networks.