From my perspective, it appears that the Martha & Snoop finale got hammered by the Bobby Brown movie on BET. Black Ink Crew took a bit of a hit too, but that drop wasn't as dramatic. Basketball Wives and Power rose slightly for their finales while the WE shows (Braxton Family Values and Marriage Boot Camp) continue to see less than stellar numbers.

This got somewhat of a late start this year. It's a little unusual that the first show premiered 3 weeks into the year, but that is what a lot of December premieres will get you. As always, I will continue to bump last year's post until all of the Monday shows end their seasons (Update: 9/11/18).

Note 1: To sort out any confusion, VH1 has dropped the LA from Basketball Wives (despite the show being filmed in Los Angeles). Technically, they consider the show to be season 6 of the original Miami version. However, since this season would be season 6 of either version, Miami was never added to the original name and the casts of both versions have now merged, it's probably much less confusing to refer to the show under its original name.

I'm honestly not convinced that Hit the Floor is in a good position to get renewed. While it's true that BET has struggled to gain meaningful traction from their scripted shows over the last couple of years, this is a little different. This is a veteran show that had its own checkered history on VH1, but its audience there made the case that it should at least get another chance. What happened was some botched decisions by VH1, a brutally long hiatus and a bit of a quiet rollout that contributed to an absolute collapse that can't be justified and may perhaps give the people at BET some worry that the same thing could happen with The Breaks when that show makes the migration from VH1 to BET. I just don't see a path for survival when their last two shows averaged something in the neighborhood of 500,000 viewers and one has been canceled while the other still has an undecided fate.

Basketball Wives is seeing a modest rise this week. Still nowhere nears the highs of earlier this season, but definitely up from the last several weeks.

Awards shows have really seen their ratings suffer over the last several years. The VMA's were no exception. Once considered to be MTV's premier event of the year, it has seen its numbers slide so dramatically that MTV seems fine with allowing the ceremony to air on Mondays despite the anemic numbers (Last year's ceremony aired on Monday, but it aired on Sundays in previous years). I included the highest two airings across the Viacom networks (MTV and VH1). The other networks all saw numbers in the 100k-400k range.

This wasn't an incredibly active week, but the theme seems to be that the heat of the summer is catching up to quite a few shows.

I actually had enough shows to do a full list this week, but a couple things came up that had to be addressed and I had no opportunity get this post up on time. Instead, I'll offer some short thoughts on almost 10 shows.