Hot-tempered British chef Gordon Ramsay keeps cooking up ratings wins for Fox. His kitchen competition reality shows, "Hell's Kitchen" and "Masterchef," led the network to its seventh straight Tuesday primetime ratings win last night.
BLUE RIBBON Fox started the night with the season seven finale of "Hell's Kitchen," which was the top rated program in the key adults 18-49 demographic Tuesday night. "Hell's Kitchen" scored a 3.2 rating/11 share in the key demo from 8-9 p.m., tying its best numbers of the season. "Masterchef" posted a 2.7/8 from 9-10 p.m., up four percent from last week.
BRIGHT SPOT NBC landed in second place behind a re-run of the game show "Minute to Win It" and a new episode of "America's Got Talent." "Minute to Win It" averaged 1.5/5 from 8-9 p.m. "America's Got Talent" ran for two hours from 9-11 p.m. and posted a strong 2.9/9 average. "Talent" has been the biggest hit on NBC during a bit of a summer ratings drought. Overall, NBC averaged 2.4/7 in primetime Tuesday night.
DOWNWARD SLIDE ABC was stuck in the number three spot as two of its shows posted double digit declines from last week. "Wipeout" averaged a 2.6/8, down 10 percent from last Tuesday and "Shaq Vs." averaged 1.4/4, down 22 percent from its debut Aug. 4.
BACK OF THE PACK CBS fell behind all of the other major broadcast networks and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Tuesday night. CBS averaged 1.2/4 with re-runs of "NCIS," "NCIS: LA" and "The Good Wife." Univision scored a 1.4/4 for the evening.
