Big Brother was adjusted up a tenth, Rookie Blue and Rock Center were adjusted down a tenth, and both episodes of Wipeout were adjusted down two tenths among adults 18-49 versus the preliminary Thursday broadcast ratings. The large volume of adjustments to programming is likely due to numerous f local market football pre-emptions.
Final broadcast primetime ratings for Thursday, August 23, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 rating/Sh | Viewers (Millions) |
| 8:00 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory - R | 2.0/7 | 7.44 |
| ABC | Wipeout | 1.3/5 | 4.80 | |
| NBC | The Office - R | 0.7/3 | 2.17 | |
| FOX | Rasing Hope -R | 0.7/3 | 2.05 | |
| CW | Oh Sit! | 0.4/1 | 0.87 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Two and a Half Men - R | 1.7/6 | 5.95 |
| FOX | New Girl - R | 0.8/3 | 1.96 | |
| NBC | Parks and Recreation - R | 0.6/2 | 1.75 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Big Brother | 2.3/7 | 6.28 |
| ABC | Wipeout | 1.5/4 | 4.59 | |
| FOX | Glee - R | 0.7/2 | 1.93 | |
| NBC | Saving Hope | 0.6/2 | 2.87 | |
| CW | The Next | 0.3/1 | 0.81 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | Person Of Interest - R | 1.1/3 | 5.27 |
| NBC | Rock Center With Brian Williams | 1.1/3 | 5.18 | |
| ABC | Rookie Blue | 1.0/4 | 4.23 |
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Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2012 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
The Next is so good why the ratings are like that ? please some one tell them dont cancel this show :”(
Bored and decided to check out an episode of the Next…. Shockingly i really enjoyed it. Much better than AI these days and The Voice… Voice has started to annoy me as well. AI is trying to hard to get stars and i think sucks they pay these people so much to “judge” but can’t dish out a little more the the actually people making them the money, you know “the contestants”
Wow a New Girl repeat actually beat a Parks & Rec repeat.