What follows is the fast affiliate rating results for Friday, September 4 by network and by network per half-hour (in the order of ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and The CW):
Wow at Medium - those were the highest repeat numbers for the show yet on CBS. The entire night is going to be a success for CBS - these 3 shows fit like a glove out of one another.
Meanwhile, ouch at both Ugly Betty and Glee. The tweeting thing didn't exactly work out for FOX with both Fringe and Glee, and UB will probably fall under 2 million in finals. Even According to Jim had better numbers.
Dateline always manages to do well, especially for a Friay night.
Smallville looks to be lower than normal. Not sure what's up with those numbers.
I'm surprised Supernanny lost ratings in the half hour as it usually builds. As for Fridays, as I said before, ABC has a lot of modestly performing reality shows that does well in repeats and the demos that it can use for Fridays. ABC can easily program two (Wife Swap, Supernanny, Shark Tank, AFHV, EM:HE, take your pick) and not worry about the night and focus on making the rest of the nights a success. And I think they still would be competitive to the other networks with this plan unless something completely collapses.
I agree that the tweetpeats were a bust on FOX. Tweet scrolls are really annoying while trying to watch a show. It was a good attempt, but I think FOX needs to reconsider that.
I think CBS' Friday line-up will be the most stable thing this coming fall.
The thing about the AYSTAFG & Glee is that Glee is very young skewing while AYSTAFG skews older. They had similar demos with Glee getting half the audience. So, that whole lineup didn't work out last night.
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Originally posted by TAYLORJNG: I think CBS' Friday line-up will be the most stable thing this coming fall.
The thing about the AYSTAFG & Glee is that Glee is very young skewing while AYSTAFG skews older. They had similar demos with Glee getting half the audience. So, that whole lineup didn't work out last night.
Glee's numbers are bad because.... It is the 3rd time airing the pilot, and only the pilot It is still the "Summer Season" It was a Friday Night
Originally posted by TAYLORJNG: I think CBS' Friday line-up will be the most stable thing this coming fall.
The thing about the AYSTAFG & Glee is that Glee is very young skewing while AYSTAFG skews older. They had similar demos with Glee getting half the audience. So, that whole lineup didn't work out last night.
CBS' should have the most stable Friday lineup they've had in years. Flashpoint did okay but was still losing the audience and demo. Moonlight didn't work out, no matter what the fans tell you, and Close to Home was ancient skewing. Medium proved last night that it can hold onto the audience and demo.
And agreed on FOX - although, their fall Friday lineup is basically the same scenario, lol.
Originally posted by TAYLORJNG: I think CBS' Friday line-up will be the most stable thing this coming fall.
The thing about the AYSTAFG & Glee is that Glee is very young skewing while AYSTAFG skews older. They had similar demos with Glee getting half the audience. So, that whole lineup didn't work out last night.
CBS' should have the most stable Friday lineup they've had in years. Flashpoint did okay but was still losing the audience and demo. Moonlight didn't work out, no matter what the fans tell you, and Close to Home was ancient skewing. Medium proved last night that it can hold onto the audience and demo.
And agreed on FOX - although, their fall Friday lineup is basically the same scenario, lol.
To be fair, I believe Close to Home was doing over 10 million/2.5 in the demo towards the end of its run. We'll see if Medium can match that number.
Originally posted by TAYLORJNG: I think CBS' Friday line-up will be the most stable thing this coming fall.
The thing about the AYSTAFG & Glee is that Glee is very young skewing while AYSTAFG skews older. They had similar demos with Glee getting half the audience. So, that whole lineup didn't work out last night.
CBS' should have the most stable Friday lineup they've had in years. Flashpoint did okay but was still losing the audience and demo. Moonlight didn't work out, no matter what the fans tell you, and Close to Home was ancient skewing. Medium proved last night that it can hold onto the audience and demo.
And agreed on FOX - although, their fall Friday lineup is basically the same scenario, lol.
To be fair, I believe Close to Home was doing over 10 million/2.5 in the demo towards the end of its run. We'll see if Medium can match that number.
Well, we already that will not happen. CTH was 3-4 years ago. Numbers everywhere have fallen since then.
