And so ends the 1983-84 season. I’m still not sure how I want to handle next season with The Cosby Show. Can a show like that still be covered? I’ve had many internal monologues about this.

NBC THURSDAY, 31 May 1984
(Ratings ranking out of 59 programs)

I'd think so. I'm going to start pushing for Mr. Smith and The Shape of Things.

Late Night Roll Call
Jimmy Fallon: Blake Shelton and Scott Eastwood
Stephen Colbert: Louis C.K., Ernie Johnson Jr., and Father John Misty
Jimmy Kimmel: Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Slate, and Dustin Lynch
Seth Meyers: Ice T, Freida Pinto, and Julio Torres (8G Band guest: Jonathan Mover)
James Corden: Claire Danes, Christine…

Of course Alex thinks the mediocre Gigi is a great musical.

NBC THURSDAY, 24 May 1984
(Ratings ranking out of 63 programs)

NBC THURSDAY, 17 May 1984
(I couldn't find rankings for this week — not in the LA Times or Broadcasting)

They should change the name to What's on The AV Club Tonight since this has transformed into a promotion for TV Club coverage. Granted, their batting average for being able to list everything is rather low.

Absent, but Noteworthy
For the opposite of sportsballs — not that they even exist in WOT anymore — PBS premieres the documentary Newtown.

FYI: Tuesday will be the final Thursday of the 1983-84 season. Tomorrow is the HSB finale and the last two Thursday episodes of The Duck Factory. Tuesday's WOT is a Night Court episode.

No finale will ever be worse than The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

It was renewed several weeks later and got a full network retooling.

1984 Upfronts: NBC

NBC THURSDAY, 10 May 1984
(Ratings ranking out of 61 programs)

On a TS: Keokuk is a small Iowa town on the Mississippi, population ~10,000. Even I wasn't sure about that clue because why would Jeopardy point out such a small, obscure town.

Late Night Ratings Race, for the week of March 20
Crash goes The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (0.64) to its lowest rating since July and one of its lowest weekly ratings ever. But it was a down week for late night TV nearly across the board. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (0.49) dropped a few notches to its…

"The Last Newhart"

Absent, but Noteworthy
—Call the Midwife premiere!
—And not that anyone cares, probably, but new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Nickelodeon

"…unless its a repeat week."

The LA Times didn't catch the error. I didn't alter its text.