Note: Any prior rating results are based on the final nationals. Since the level of DVR penetration has increased from 13 percent at this same point last year to approximately 23 percent at present, the overall results may be negatively impacted.
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-Saturday’s Winners: America’s Most Wanted (Fox)
-Saturday’s Losers (excluding repeats): Nothing.
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-Ratings Breakdown: Fox led this dismal summer Saturday with its perennial combination of Cops (two repeats – Viewers: #1: avg. 3.84 million; A18-49: #4, avg. 1.4 rating/ 6 share) and America’s Most Wanted (Viewers: #1: 5.26 million; A18-49: #1, 1.9/ 7) averaging just 4.55 million viewers and a 1.6/ 6 in the demo. But growth for America’s Most Wanted out of Cops of a hefty 1.42 million viewers and 36 percent among adults 18-49 is worth positively noting.
Next was NBC care of 8-9 p.m. special U.S. Olympic Trials: Track (Viewers: #3, 3.44 million; A18-49: #2, 1.0/ 4), a repeat of Law & Order (Viewers: #2, 4.06 million; A18-49: #3, 0.9/ 3 at 9 p.m.), and a repeat of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Viewers: #2, 5.04 million; A18-49: #1t, 1.3/ 5). CBS aired a repeat of CSI: NY (Viewers: #2, 3.81 million; A18-49: #4: 0.7/ 3), a repeat of The Unit (Viewers: #4, 2.75 million; A18-49: #4, 0.5/ 2), and 48 Hours Mystery (Viewers: #1, 5.43 million; A18-49: #1t, 1.3/ 5). And ABC ran a repeat of Haunted Mansion on The Wonderful World of Disney (Viewers: 3.55 million; A18-49: 1.0/ 4) from 8-10 p.m.), followed by a repeat of Eli Stone at just 2.76 million viewers (#3) and a 0.8/ 3 among adults 18-49 (#3). What a night!
The real question is will networks ever get around to fixing Saturday. We can comment constantly about the bad ratings but if they aren't able or willing to fix it, it's pointless.
I'd say they're not able, since repeats are cheaper than new scripted series. Depending on the show, it may not make too much of a difference in ratings (L&O:CI rerun was one of three shows above 5 million).
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Originally posted by WlcmDoNotDisturb90210: The real question is will networks ever get around to fixing Saturday. We can comment constantly about the bad ratings but if they aren't able or willing to fix it, it's pointless.
What is most surprising to me is that no other network has copied what has worked so marvelously for FOX over the last 20 years, and that is regularly scheduled reality series on Saturday nights. Sure, CBS has 48 Hours Mystery and sometimes NBC uses Dateline, but the other networks prefer to sked their reality/gameshows on other nights of the week, and leave Saturday for encores and/or theatricals. And that recipe hasn't ever really worked (i.e. surpassing FOX) and so the night has remained in FOX's column for the past five or so years, and it will remain a FOX night until someone sees the opportunity in going all-original on Saturdays with reality, gamers or low-cost scripted (like ABC did last summer with Masters of Science Fiction).
Numbers that are as low as those garnered by The Unit and Eli Stone really do nobody any good (network or studio), especially for the bad repeat reputation they create in the minds of local station programmers looking at down-the-road syndicatability of those programs.
It's Summertime and Time to Play the July Sweep Prediction Game
Only five days remaining before July Sweep Prediction Game is just days away from starting. This year, the July Sweep runs from Thursday July 3rd to Wednesday July 30th.
Though not as big and sexy as the November, February and May Sweeps, the July Sweep is still one of those races that all the networks try to win, but without looking like they're trying.
Here are the results from last season, where CBS and NBC duked it out for second:
2007 July Sweep Results
Ranked on A18-49 (000,000's of 2+ Viewers)
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FOX 2.2 (5.721)
CBS 1.8 (6.342)
NBC 1.8 (5.639)
ABC 1.5 (4.613)
CW 0.7 (1.942)
MNT 0.4 (0.997)
So now it's your turn to predict the outcome of the July Sweep.
I think CBS or NBC should do a night of original game shows.
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Originally posted by dumont:
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Originally posted by WlcmDoNotDisturb90210: The real question is will networks ever get around to fixing Saturday. We can comment constantly about the bad ratings but if they aren't able or willing to fix it, it's pointless.
What is most surprising to me is that no other network has copied what has worked so marvelously for FOX over the last 20 years, and that is regularly scheduled reality series on Saturday nights. Sure, CBS has 48 Hours Mystery and sometimes NBC uses Dateline, but the other networks prefer to sked their reality/gameshows on other nights of the week, and leave Saturday for encores and/or theatricals. And that recipe hasn't ever really worked (i.e. surpassing FOX) and so the night has remained in FOX's column for the past five or so years, and it will remain a FOX night until someone sees the opportunity in going all-original on Saturdays with reality, gamers or low-cost scripted (like ABC did last summer with Masters of Science Fiction).
Numbers that are as low as those garnered by The Unit and Eli Stone really do nobody any good (network or studio), especially for the bad repeat reputation they create in the minds of local station programmers looking at down-the-road syndicatability of those programs.
Originally posted by Marc Berman: I think CBS or NBC should do a night of original game shows.
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Originally posted by dumont:
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Originally posted by WlcmDoNotDisturb90210: The real question is will networks ever get around to fixing Saturday. We can comment constantly about the bad ratings but if they aren't able or willing to fix it, it's pointless.
What is most surprising to me is that no other network has copied what has worked so marvelously for FOX over the last 20 years, and that is regularly scheduled reality series on Saturday nights. Sure, CBS has 48 Hours Mystery and sometimes NBC uses Dateline, but the other networks prefer to sked their reality/gameshows on other nights of the week, and leave Saturday for encores and/or theatricals. And that recipe hasn't ever really worked (i.e. surpassing FOX) and so the night has remained in FOX's column for the past five or so years, and it will remain a FOX night until someone sees the opportunity in going all-original on Saturdays with reality, gamers or low-cost scripted (like ABC did last summer with Masters of Science Fiction).
Numbers that are as low as those garnered by The Unit and Eli Stone really do nobody any good (network or studio), especially for the bad repeat reputation they create in the minds of local station programmers looking at down-the-road syndicatability of those programs.
NBC should of kept 1 vs 100. But, the people who run networks are a bunch of idiots.
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If you were a fan of the old game show, Tic Tac Dough, I've got great news and bad news for episodes airing on GSN.
The bad news: starting July 21, Tic Tac Dough moves to 9:00am eastern. This is the third different GSN morning time slot for the game show in less than 7 months and its continual move to an earlier time may mean an eventual move off the daily schedule.
The great news: every morning from today until the fall on GSN (if the game stays on that long), three of the biggest winners of this game show's history will appear. Episodes featuring the #1 all-time champion of Tic Tac Dough are expected to air sometime in August (hopefully).
(and yes, Texas Bound, it will be Yahoo-based! Come into the TV Talk chat room when we're both online for more details.)
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