There is not much to say about this week's post other than there is a lot of mediocrity and disappointment here.
1. Real Housewives of Atlanta (2.968 million 1.4)- This is down quite a bit from last season’s premiere but last season had a ridiculously strong start. These numbers are pretty normal for this show so I’m not worried about anything. I won’t be worried if the numbers dip over the next several weeks because that is a normal occurrence as well.

2. Project Runway (2.516 million 0.8)- Something tells me that Lifetime is going to try to mimic whatever happened to get people to watch this season of the show for next season. They can’t live on unauthorized movie biographies all year. I think the people at Lifetime would rather not have another season with average ratings with the end of that long renewal contract on the horizon. If that happens, this show will just fall in that awkward category of Oxygen with Bad Girls Club where they can’t cancel their highest rated show even if its best days are long behind it.

3. Awkward (9:00: 779,000 0.4; Finale: 737,000 0.4)- This has not been a very good half for the show. Sadly, this is still the bet offering MTV has had on Mondays this fall because all of the shows they have aired after this one came in with horrible ratings.

4. Chicago PD (6.48 million 1.4)- Going into this season, there was no doubt that this show was going to get renewed. It’s a third season broadcast show and part of a still expanding franchise. It needs a fourth season to have enough episodes to sell into syndication. I’m a little surprised that NBC opted to renew this show (along with Chicago Fire and Blindspot) this early. I feel at the very least that they should have waited until after Chicago Med premieres (next week) and then time the announcement to take advantage of whatever PR spin they need.

5. Bad Girls Club: Back for More (838,000 0.4)- This is a season high for the show. That’s not surprising because the reunions tend to do a little better than the rest of the season with this show. The surprising thing is that even though this is the lowest rated season of the show since season 1, this is still Oxygen’s highest rated show by at least a 2:1 margin.

6. MasterChef Junior (4.16 million 1.3)- Outside of Empire, FOX has had a miserable fall. This show isn’t a shining beacon of light in a sea of murkiness but it’s one less hour that FOX has to worry about and they have shows on better nights getting worse ratings that they seem determined to forge ahead with.

7. Don’t Be Tardy (743,000 0.3)- Less than meh numbers for a finale. I’m still of the mindset that the numbers this put up before it got moved to Thursdays will be enough to drag this to another season. We all know that this isn’t really a hit show.

8. Elementary (5.58 million 1.1)- CBS knew what to expect here and they got it. The good news is that there are other shows airing on CBS with similar or worse numbers than this. This has to get shipped off to the farm eventually even though it seems like CBS would rather let ABC win 10pm Thursdays (for 60% of the season anyway).

9. Braxton Family Values (448,000 0.2)- I know this was a special but it may have done better if this wasn’t thrown in weeks after the end of the Braxton Family Values season or if this would have received a bit more promotion. These low numbers definitely hurt the next show on this list.

10. Selling It: In the ATL (310,000 0.2)- These are very low premiere numbers and WE is not above the point of shuffling a show around if they don’t believe the numbers are very good. I do know that the numbers need to start trending upwards immediately.