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Reality rules the night, while the "Hawaii Five-0" finale rises from recent showings and Fox's long-shelved "Goodwin Games" makes no impact.read more

Monday saw a mix of live, encores, finales, premieres and prayers for those in the path of the tornado in Oklahoma in the primetime schedule. Over on ABC, the last performance show of Dancing With The Stars (2.5/7) before tonight’s results season 16 finale saw the final four couples strut their stuff once last time. DWTS certainly flexed some muscle as the show was up 25% from its series performance low tie of May 13. The most watched show of the night with 14.73 million viewers, the two-hour show was down 14% from its one-hour May 21, 2012 performance finale and dipped 7% from its last performance show of last season on November 26, 2012. Though the show was up from last week, for a bit last night it looked like the total votes might be down. Online “technical difficulties” saw voting on ABC’s website temporarily suspended leaving viewers the chance to cast their ballots via text, Facebook and phone. The online voting was restored before the show was over and viewers were encouraged to hit the website to decided who gets the Mirrorball trophy this year. Imported from Canada for the summer, crime procedural Motive (1.4/4) did not benefit from its lead-in. The new show was down sharply from the 2.2/6 of Castle’s season finale last week and down 30% from Scandal’s April 5, 2012 debut.  ABC won the night in ... Read More »