-Saturday’s Losers (excluding repeats): The night overall
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-Ratings Breakdown: CBS and Fox shared leadership on this typically abysmal Saturday, with CBS first in total viewers and NASCAR 2007 on Fox No. 1 among adults 18-49. NASCAR finished second overall in total viewers, with 6.28 million, and first in the demo with an overall 2.3 rating/9 share. A repeat of NCIS opened the evening for CBS with 6.53 million viewers (#1) and a 1.3/ 6 among adults 18-49 (#2) at 8 p.m., followed by a repeat of CSI: NY (Viewers: #1, 7.34 million; A18-49: #2, 1.6/ 6) and 48 Hours Mystery (Viewers: #1, 7.73 million; A18-49: #1, 2.1/ 7) from 9-11 p.m.
A repeat of theatrical Harry Potter: Sorcerer’s Stone on ABC finished third overall, with 4.16 million viewers and a 1.4/ 5 among adults 18-49 from 8-11 p.m. Last, and very least were three repeat episodes of NBC’s Heroes at just 2.33 million viewers and a 0.8/ 3 in the demo from 8-11 p.m. All together now…what a night!
Low performing ratings for Nascar. Sundays are clearly the better choice for Fox.
Still, I still think if ABC would start building the night with racing in July when they take over Nascar telecasts, move onto college football in the fall, then find something in the spring, it build into a good demo night on Saturdays.
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Yikes, those NBC numbers for Heroes are really low, especially for encore episodes that were heavily promoted to be including previews of the upcoming new episodes. Heroes doesn't repeat this badly on Monday, and I remember the Sunday night encores did mid-2's.
Once again, the big four captured just 23% of the A18-49 demographic last night. Assuming that everyone else wasn't watching the Tony Bennett PBS special, some cable networks out there have to be scoring big numbers on Saturday night. TCM's The Essentials?
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: Last, and very least were three repeat episodes of NBC’s Heroes at just 2.33 million viewers and a 0.8/ 3 in the demo from 8-11 p.m. All together now…what a night!
That's not too far off for Nascar and I agree that if ABC can get Saturday night races and College Football, Saturday can be alright for them. I'd then try for the NBA in January.
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Originally posted by Hawk-eye: Bad ratings for Nascar. Sundays are clearly the better choice for Fox.
Still, I still think if ABC would start building the night with racing in July when they take over Nascar telecasts, move onto college football in the fall, then find something in the spring, ABC could build into a good demo night on Saturdays.
Originally posted by dumont demo: Yikes, those NBC numbers for Heroes are really low,
Agreed. I can't see why anyone would ask for the half hour breakdowns of an entire night of complete failure like that. The networks all need to learr that if Friday and Saturday are going to be used for repeats, they need to be repaeats of non-serial shows.
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especially for encore episodes that were heavily promoted to be including previews of the upcoming new episodes.
So, can it truly be advertised as 'an all new episode on Monday' if parts of it were shown in previews Sunday night?
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Once again, the big four captured just 23% of the A18-49 demographic last night. Assuming that everyone else wasn't watching the Tony Bennett PBS special, some cable networks out there have to be scoring big numbers on Saturday night. TCM's The Essentials?
I think you are kidding yourself. More likely, the higher ratings go to sports programs and VH1's trash TV. I doubt Saturday night is a time when viewers are fleeing the networks in search of 'quality' entertainment.
Well, my night was not all 'quality' either. As a prelude to Tony Bennett, I did watch IFL Smackdown to see what all the fuss was about. It reminded me of boxing matches, which used to be covered by network television.
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Originally posted by Obveeus: More likely, the higher ratings go to sports programs and VH1's trash TV. I doubt Saturday night is a time when viewers are fleeing the networks in search of 'quality' entertainment.
If ABC is going to continue to air movies on saturday nights, then they need to get some fresh movies. Here's an idea......original made for TV movies. That would be something! Even if they didn't produce new movies hundreds of movies are made a year. I think they can find something different to air.
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Originally posted by Justin: I think this is the slowest day EVER on PI!!! geeeeeeeeeeez...maybe it's becuase of the boring and meaningless night lastnight! BLEHHH!
Originally posted by Marc Berman: SUnday always gets everyone down!
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Originally posted by Justin: I think this is the slowest day EVER on PI!!! geeeeeeeeeeez...maybe it's becuase of the boring and meaningless night lastnight! BLEHHH!
The Apprentice finale dragged on and on despite it being only an hour.
I'm happy with the winner, though.
Surya is just freakin' ridiculous. His attempt at humor was pathetic. I'm sick of those types of people who just talk and talk and talk just to hear their own voice.
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I just finished watching Crossroads on the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame. Once again, a touching story told so well. And I how have come to love those moving advertisements for the Hallmark greeting cards.
Even after 56 seasons on the air, broadcast network televisions very last anthology series never fails to deliver. Bravo Hallmark and CBS! Bravo!
