Tuesday, June 30, 2026

TV Ratings: “Celebrity Apprentice” with Ahnold, Not Trump, Has Down Premiere, Swamped by “Bachelor”

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“The New Celebrity Apprentice” was met with a ho hum rating last night as it returned without Donald Trump. He got another job.

New host Arnold Schwarzenegger led the show’s return down by 1 point from last year and swamped by “The Bachelor.” The latter show had 6.56 million viewers. CBS, not NBC, carreied with night with “Kevin Can Wait” and “Scorpion” (a show, I have no idea what it is) scoring over 7 million viewers each.

Arnold and gang brought in a paltry total of 4.93 million viewers, making it the 7th highest rated show of the night. Even its demo was low– 1.3 million.

The shows that beat it were The Bachelor, Kevin Can Wait, Man with a Plan, 2 Broke Girls, The Odd Couple and Scorpion.

At that rate, “Celebrity Apprentice”– unless Trump quits the new job and comes back– could be cancelled before it’s over. Some consolation.

Could Schwarzenegger be a negative? Hmmm…

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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