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After impressive ratings last week for both MDL-LA as well as the premiere of Top Chef Masters, both shows dropped significantly in audience numbers this week.

At 9pm, MDL-LA dropped back below 1m viewers after two weeks where it scored above that, as just 978,000 watched the ‘Shark Out of Water’ episode with the 18-49 demo rating dropping down to 0.4 as well. Although that’s the third highest rated episode of this 5th season, that figure is just above the season average of 965,375 after 8 episodes. At the same stage in season four the average was 1,033,000 and some 2.5% higher than this season.

The ratings news was quite bad for Top Chef Masters after its impressive debut last week, as this week’s 2nd episode dropped 30% from the prior week down to just 856,000 with an 0.4 18-49 demo percentage. The last time the ratings were that low, was the 3rd episode of the 2nd season, which aired in April 2010 scoring 868,000 viewers.

On top of the disappointing ratings for the recently finished Around the World in 80 Plates, Bravo will start wondering whether it’s these shows’ formats that aren’t working or whether the host of both, Curtis Stone, isn’t proving to be the draw Andy Cohen thought he was.

Again no ratings for WWHL which only rates high enough to score a Top 100 Nightly Cable Show ranking on Sunday’s when it follows the Real Housewives on New Jersey’s 10pm episode.

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Source: Nielsen Media Research via TVByTheNumbers