Mixed most current listings for nets' weekend fare

The broadcast systems perform a reasonably good job of delivering ratings for your low-rated weekend several hours with unscripted and news programs -- but not every them work. Fox struck out Saturday having its Jennifer Lopez-fronted Latin Americas talent show "Q' Viva! The Chosen.Inch And on one evening, NBC's burnoff of "The Firm" ongoing to produce a small amount. According to preliminary Nielsen national estimations for Saturday, "Q' Viva" came only .7 rating/2 participate grownups 18-49 and two.2 million audiences overall from 8 to 10 p.m. -- behind ABC, Univision and CBS inside the demo. 7 days earlier, Fox did single. rating for Saturday by getting an hour or so of "Cops" together with a repeat of "The Finder." At NBC, "The Firm" -- demoted from Thursday lately -- settled for just about any prelim .4/one out of 18-49 and two.2 million audiences, doing the identical demo score becasue it is repeat "Smash" lead-in. Faring better on Saturday was ABC's limited-run news series "20/20: My Extreme Affliction" (prelim 1.3/4 in 18-49, 4.9 million), which compares the lives of people having a couple of of medicine's most two extremes or who've unbelievable abilities. It won from 9-11 p.m. while using net's best showing inside the slot since the Miss America Pageant within the month of the month of january. And also on Friday, the big Four have began towards the realization that alternative series are the easiest method to make use of the outlet hour, where roughly just 30% in the country's under-50 adult inhabitants are watching television. CBS and NBC started the summer season with pricey scripted skeins "A Gifted Guy" and "Chuck," correspondingly, but walk inside a brand new direction this winter. On Friday, the interest won with feel-good reality show "Undercover Boss" (prelim 2./7 in 18-49, 9.6 000 0000) and NBC was round the upswing with genealogy-designed reality show "Who You Think You are?Inch (prelim 1.5/5 in 18-49, 7.6 000 0000), which made an appearance to acquire a week-to-week boost by spotlighting Reba McEntire. ABC remains enhanced inside the hour too with entreprenuerial-designed reality show "Shark Tank" (second-place 1.7/6 in 18-49, 6.millions of) and Fox is solid with Gordon Ramsey restaurant skein "Kitchen Bad dreams or nightmares.Inch Despite a repeat "Kitchen Bad dreams or nightmaresInch inside the mix (1./3 in 18-49), the big Four combined for just about any combined 6.2/20 in grownups 18-49 in Friday's 8 o'clock hour -Up in the 4.4/15 round the comparable evening this past year. Also of ratings note in the last weekend will be a strong perf for "Saturday Evening Live," situated by She. The show averaged a 5.5 household rating/14 participate Nielsen's metered-market overnights, it is the the second best consequence of year (behind only the evening NBC broadcast a Saturday playoff game in primetime). Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com