The 2011-2012 TV season ended with a whimper, as all five broadcast networks posted year-to-year drops in viewership during May sweeps. But the season as a whole wasn’t too bad: Sure, some big swings (Pan Am, Terra Nova) missed, but a solid 15 freshman shows (out of 45) were renewed. Here’s a roundup of this year’s winners and losers.
Winners
Funny girls
CBS’ 2 Broke Girls was the year’s highest-rated new comedy, averaging a strong 5.6 million viewers with adults 18-49. The show has already been upgraded to a plum 9pm time slot for fall. “That shows enormous…
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- Two and a Half Men
- Ashton Kutcher
- Charlie Sheen
- Zooey Deschanel
- Dancing with the Stars
- Punk’d
- Peter Roth
- Sunday Night Football
- Whitney Cummings
- Steve Jobs
- Terra Nova
- Game of Thrones
- Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23
- Pan Am
- Once Upon a Time
- Grimm
- 2 Broke Girls
- New Girl
- Whitney
- Beauty and the Beast
- 666 Park Avenue