Bill Keveney

USA TODAY

Meet the parent. CBS’s The Big Bang Theory closed out its ninth season Thursday with 14.7 million same-day viewers. The episode featured Judd Hirsch’s first appearance as the father of Leonard (Johnny Galecki).

Till we meet again. Other renewed broadcast network programs had their season finales, including Fox’s New Girl (two episodes Tuesday, 2.3 and 2.2 million); ABC's Scandal (Thursday, 6.6 million); CBS's 2 Broke Girls (Thursday, 7 million); CW’s TheVampire Diaries (Friday, 1 million); CBS’s The Amazing Race (Friday, 5.9 million); CBS’s Hawaii Five-0 (two episodes Friday, 8.5 and 8.8 million) ; ABC’s Once Upon a Time (two-hour finale Sunday, 4.1 million); ABC’s Quantico (Sunday, 3.8 million); and Fox’s The Last Man on Earth (Sunday, 2.2 million).

Grinder rests. In peace, we hope. The first-season Rob Lowe-Fred Savage comedy, The Grinder, which delivered many laughs but not enough viewers, exited for good Tuesday with an audience of just 1.6 million, the same number tallied by another departing freshman Fox comedy, John Stamos’s Grandfathered. ABC's drama, The Family, itself a one-season casualty, ended its run Sunday with 3.3 million viewers.



