'Modern Family' Joins the Ratings Slide April 12, 2012, 4:28 pm Not to be left out from what has been a dismal week for broadcast ratings, another hit series succumbed to a downward trend on Wednesday night This time it was ABC's "Modern Family" that fell to season lows in total audience, at 10.3 million, and in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic, according to Nielsen. The series premiere of "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23" followed, and managed a decent viewer sampling with 7 million. On Tuesday Season 3 of "Justified" on FX finished strongly with its highest-rated season finale ever in the 18-to-49-year-old set. FX expects that the episode will become the most-watched of the season once DVR-based viewing has been taken into account. Previous episodes have seen an average increase of 64 percent in overall viewership and 75 percent in the 18-to-49 category.