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Fox legal drama Canterbury’s Law (headlined by the riveting Julianna Margulies) got off to an older skewing start, with 7.62 million viewers (#2) and a fourth-place 1.7 rating/5 share among adults 18-49 (#4). One year earlier, a repeat of House averaged 9.69 million viewers and a 3.5/10 in the demo. Needless to say, this is a very bad start for Canterbury’s Law.

WOW! What a difference the demo numbers can make -- CL went from promising to loser in one fell swoop! That 1.8 is very low, especially for a FOX show with a decent size audience!

As from the hostile witness on the stand last night, Miss Elizabeth Canterbury received a punch in the face this morning from the A18-49s. Last spring, Drive opened to 2.6, went to 2.3 and then 1.8 before FOX put it in neutral, so I have faintest hopes that this series survives its full 5-episode run.

Sad to say because the opener was captivating television, and reminded me much of The Practice. Perhaps word-of-mouth might give this series a week two lift in young adult numbers.

And the moody, mysterious New Amsterdam was quite compelling last night as well. Glad to see that it held quite a sizeable portion of its audience from last week.

Although i did not see CL, from what I hear about yesterday's episode, I'm glad I didn't. It sounds like another stereotypical overdramatized legal show where what happens in the TV court room isn't very close at all as to what you can do and what happens in real life court.

Then go and rewatch OJ's trial. That's ver "real"
CL is a good legal show. Not the best i've seen though

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The demo # for NA isn't promising. They do not have a hit in the making here.

They may, however, have a better placeholder for the timeslot than SCC is ever likely to be, given that even a two hour season finale couldn't do much better in the demo, and did worse in total viewers.

Except NA will keep falling, this was the Monday premiere. And the demo is just bad.

NA is gone next year, SCC may return.

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Originally posted by pisher:
The demo # for NA isn't promising. They do not have a hit in the making here.

They may, however, have a better placeholder for the timeslot than SCC is ever likely to be, given that even a two hour season finale couldn't do much better in the demo, and did worse in total viewers.

Except NA will keep falling, this was the Monday premiere. And the demo is just bad.

NA is gone next year, SCC may return.

CL has much more chances of not dropping further than SCC has if it returns next season
I'm sure CL will not drop a lot next week, but that's still not enough

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CL has much more chances of not dropping further than SCC has if it returns next season
I'm sure CL will not drop a lot next week, but that's still not enough

CL is a goner as well. Putting it on Monday was a bad choice, it doesn't fit with the usual FOX shows there. Perhaps Friday would have been better.

And any numbers available yet for The Wire finale?

New Amsterdam's numbers so far:

1x01 - 4.5/11 13.47
1x02 - 3.5/8 10.12
1x03 - 2.5/6 8.78

It's not done dropping..

I didn't know UCLA Medical Center wasn't a "serious" facility. It's ranking as one of the top psychiatric centers in the country confused me.

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That's a ridiculous, absurd, and blatantly wrong comment. She has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and is receiving medical treatment for it. That's not a laughing matter.

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A show that guest stars Britney Spears should be canceled immediately. And i'm not joking

Given that she has quite a bit of acting experience, your 'not joking' commetn makes little sense. Is your claim that people with troubled pasts (or current mental problems) should not be able to get jobs in the entertainment field? If so, shows like '24' and '30 Rock' should be cancelled, as well, right? In fact, I'm guessing most TV shows have one or more mentally unstable people writing or acting on them (almost a prerequisite for Hollywood).

Have you heard that My Name is Earl will guest star Paris Hilton?

At least Paris Hilton does not have kids that she treats like garbage (and yeah i know Britney is not the only one in showbiz doing that)
And i have nothing against individuals with mental problems (i have a person like that in my family), but Spears has nothing of those. Just too much money and too little brain

Diagnosed by who? By Dr. Phil and other celebreties facilities.
Send her to serious doctors, and we'll talk after that

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I didn't know UCLA Medical Center wasn't a "serious" facility. It's ranking as one of the top psychiatric centers in the country confused me.

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That's a ridiculous, absurd, and blatantly wrong comment. She has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and is receiving medical treatment for it. That's not a laughing matter.

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Originally posted by robert:
A show that guest stars Britney Spears should be canceled immediately. And i'm not joking

Given that she has quite a bit of acting experience, your 'not joking' commetn makes little sense. Is your claim that people with troubled pasts (or current mental problems) should not be able to get jobs in the entertainment field? If so, shows like '24' and '30 Rock' should be cancelled, as well, right? In fact, I'm guessing most TV shows have one or more mentally unstable people writing or acting on them (almost a prerequisite for Hollywood).

Have you heard that My Name is Earl will guest star Paris Hilton?

At least Paris Hilton does not have kids that she treats like garbage (and yeah i know Britney is not the only one in showbiz doing that)
And i have nothing against individuals with mental problems (i have a person like that in my family), but Spears has nothing of those. Just too much money and too little brain

Diagnosed by who? By Dr. Phil and other celebreties facilities.
Send her to serious doctors, and we'll talk after that

UCLA is a facility "visited" often by celebrities. That's enough said.
As i said, she should go to Columbus Community Hospital for example, they have a good psochiatry department. Let's see what they say.

Canterbury's Law is dead. 1.8 demo is terrible. It will get even worse when it faces Dancing with the Stars next week.

New Amsterdam is on the bubble. Right now, it's more likely to come back than SCC but it depends if it can stabilize at these numbers.

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I didn't know UCLA Medical Center wasn't a "serious" facility. It's ranking as one of the top psychiatric centers in the country confused me.

Perhaps Robert is in a better position to talk about which facilities are best since he has visited them all.

Seriously, though, I fail to see why it should matter if these people are sane or not when determining if they should be 'allowed on TV'. If I was a producer, I'd be very wary of hiring someone that could not hack the job, but when you are talking about a short term guest spot, their mental stability should not matter much. They just have to be able to get through a few lines. Moreover, as a TV viewer, it should not matter at all if they are mentally stable. The only thing that should matter is if they did a good job with the role they were playing. Who cares what they are doing off camera?

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Perhaps Robert is in a better position to talk about which facilities are best since he has visited them all.

It was very nice of him to come see you.

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New Amsterdam's numbers so far:

1x01 - 4.5/11 13.47
1x02 - 3.5/8 10.12
1x03 - 2.5/6 8.78

It's not done dropping..

Nope.

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Lost - Thursdays @ 9:00pm
Heroes - Mondays @ 9:00pm
The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Mondays @ 9:00pm
Pushing Daisies - Wednesdays @ 8:00pm
Supernatural - Thursdays @ 9:00pm
The Big Bang Theory - Mondays @ 8:00pm

To name some other shows that aren't done dropping.

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Then, in March 2007, with their changeover in programming from telenovellas to more mixed fare, MyNetworkTV opted to change their reporting to nightly as is the case with the other broadcast networks.

Thank you for clarifying the date before which MNTV did not have daily ratings info released. So, until about a year ago, the data didn't come out for MNTV's overnight numbers because they only paid Nielsen for use of weekly summation data.

Just to clarify further because you are mixing reporting terminology:

MNT Overnight reporting (metered markets): September 5, 2006 onwards
MNT FAST National & Finals reporting: March 2007 onwards
MNT Weekly reporting: September 5, 2006 onwards

And to re-iterate, the weekly reporting was a choice made by the network to more accurately capture out-of-daypart viewing of its primetime schedule. I don't think it was because they "only paid Nielsen" any lesser amount of money.

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Perhaps Robert is in a better position to talk about which facilities are best since he has visited them all.

It was very nice of him to come see you.

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CL would be a nice companion piece with Bones on Friday Nights. Very Compatible.

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Originally posted by pisher:
The demo # for NA isn't promising. They do not have a hit in the making here.

They may, however, have a better placeholder for the timeslot than SCC is ever likely to be, given that even a two hour season finale couldn't do much better in the demo, and did worse in total viewers.

Except NA will keep falling, this was the Monday premiere. And the demo is just bad.

NA is gone next year, SCC may return.

CL has much more chances of not dropping further than SCC has if it returns next season
I'm sure CL will not drop a lot next week, but that's still not enough