Last Comic Standing beat by Baby Borrowers

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 7th, 2008

Tonight at 8PM EDT is the season finale of Last Comic Standing. Last week’s numbers (as reported by Hollywood Reporter) were up over the week prior, but nothing to shout about.

The rising tide seemed to lift “Last Comic Standing” (5 million, 1.9/6), up 12 per cent for the week.

As for NBC’s freshman reality series “The Baby Borrowers” (5.4 million, 2.1/6), the show that launched with bang concluded with a relative whimper, matching its season low.

Could this be the series finale as well?

We predicted early in the season that the winner would get “Bodden-ed”– his/her victory wouldn’t make it to air. That won’t happen this season. However, this season does seem rather… truncated. It is odd that tonight’s episode is heralded as the finale when there are still five finalists left. Last year’s contest ran a lot longer– we posted that Jon Reep was the winner on September 19!

It’s butting up against the Olympics, obviously. They forked over $900 million for the right to broadcast the games and they’re going to spend $100 million more to bring the games into our living rooms and onto our computer screens.

They’re giving the “wrap it up” sign to the comedians.

Will it be back next year? And at its previous length? (We can’t imagine that NBCUni is saying, “Give us that 1.9 rating and 6 share in ’09! And give it to us for seven more weeks!” But it’s an entirely new TV landscape out there now.)

We’re not making any predictions here. Feel free to put yours in the comments. Who will be this season’s LAST… COMIC… STAAAAANNNNDDING?

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