Originally posted by robert: I'm afraid even to think about what kind of numbers the Super Bowl will get.
yesterday's game did way better than last year and incredibly better than two years ago (43 and 35 millions respectively)
100 million might be possible
I expect the Super Bowl to crack 100 million with room to spare. Last night's game was an instant classic (albeit a depressing one for me) and with the Patriots going for an undefeated season, I expect the ratings to hit an all-time high.
Originally posted by Obveeus: The 'graveyard' was the same timeslot that 7th Heaven had the year before.
Come on Obveeus, 7th Heaven was an institution and even its numbers were sinking in that timeslot. Not to mention, even when the ratings were the lowest for its lead in (about 900,000 for a OTH repeat), it was still double what Life is Wild had today.
Never-the-less, CW gave Life is Wild the best timeslot they had available for a show of that nature. People expecting CW to hand Life is Wild the post ANTM timeslot are delusional. Life is Wild would have failed just as miserably if it had aired post B&tG. The show simply didn't interest the viewers of that type of show.
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Had it been financially possible, I think the CW would've renewed 7th Heaven again.
I agree. Both 7th Heaven and Gilmore Girls would have been back had the CW had any real control over the issue of renewal.
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Bottom line is the CW never expected Life is Wild to match 7th Heaven, especially with those lead ins.
I never said they expected Life is Wild to match 7th Heaven's numbers. What I said was that Life is Wild is a failure in the best timeslot CW could realistically give it.
Originally posted by robert: I'm afraid even to think about what kind of numbers the Super Bowl will get.
yesterday's game did way better than last year and incredibly better than two years ago (43 and 35 millions respectively)
100 million might be possible
I expect the Super Bowl to crack 100 million with room to spare. Last night's game was an instant classic (albeit a depressing one for me) and with the Patriots going for an undefeated season, I expect the ratings to hit an all-time high.
As a choke nation resident, I whole heartedly welcome all followers of Brett Favre to the club. Last night was truley one of his biggest chokes ever. Let me suggest a good stiff drink here or there to ease the pain.
Originally posted by Obveeus: The 'graveyard' was the same timeslot that 7th Heaven had the year before.
Come on Obveeus, 7th Heaven was an institution and even its numbers were sinking in that timeslot. Not to mention, even when the ratings were the lowest for its lead in (about 900,000 for a OTH repeat), it was still double what Life is Wild had today.
Never-the-less, CW gave Life is Wild the best timeslot they had available for a show of that nature. People expecting CW to hand Life is Wild the post ANTM timeslot are delusional. Life is Wild would have failed just as miserably if it had aired post B&tG. The show simply didn't interest the viewers of that type of show.
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Had it been financially possible, I think the CW would've renewed 7th Heaven again.
I agree. Both 7th Heaven and Gilmore Girls would have been back had the CW had any real control over the issue of renewal.
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Bottom line is the CW never expected Life is Wild to match 7th Heaven, especially with those lead ins.
I never said they expected Life is Wild to match 7th Heaven's numbers. What I said was that Life is Wild is a failure in the best timeslot CW could realistically give it.
See here's where I completely disagree. Life is Wild after Chris and AiA on Monday would've made most sense with the other 2 comedies (that clearly don't fit with Chris and AiA moved post-Top Model). I would never in my wildest dreams have proposed a Wednesday 9pm slot for LiW for the exact reasons you stated. Ditto for a B&tG pairing but those two comedies are more compatible imo with LiW than they are with the other two sitcoms. Its like going from Malcolm in the Middle's foreign cousin to Sex and the City: Urban Edition. I personally thought a B&tG/Supernatural Sunday combo would've been the best idea with Gossip Girl and OTH then filling out Tuesdays. Reaper would've then followed Smallville. Doesn't that lineup just make more sense?
Originally posted by bored striker: That's a shame because I thought it was one of the better pilots from last spring
Aliens in America is one of the better sitcoms on television these days. It is a shame that so few people are giving it a try.
I may start checking out some online viewings of this here soon with the strike really starting to shrivel up my viewing habits. Dexter is also on my list.
Originally posted by Obveeus: The 'graveyard' was the same timeslot that 7th Heaven had the year before. If the fans of 'family soap' can't find the show when it is put in the same timeslot as the last family soap, don't blame the network. The reality is, whatever 'theoretical interest' Life is Wild had going for it, did not translate into actual viewer interest.
I think LIW is in an entirely different boat. Not only was 7H an established show, but Sundays weren't the CW's "garbage night" back when it was on the air.
LIW was the last of all the shows to premiere. By the time it did, the CW Sunday had already become where the CW tosses random reruns so the night won't be a total loss, but no one really gives a crap. Airing on one of the toughest nights of the week, surrounded by reruns, given little fanfare (compared to the CW's other new shows), on a night the network doesn't seem to care about all that much, I can't imagine any brand new show doing well in those circumstances.
Which is why I've started thinking of the show as "Poor LIW." It wasn't even given half a chance.
NYC is the biggest market in the country vs. the Pats, who are ratings magic this year...I think it will set a SuperBowl Record. I believe the all time Superbowl rating (HH) record still belongs to Cowboys-Steelers in 1993...that was an NBC Superbowl.
In my opinion, CW has nothing to replace it with. If 8 Days a Week was ready for broadcast, Alien's in America would be replaced. For the comedy block, I don't see Girlfriends or Alien's in America coming back after the strike. They will be replaced with something.
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Originally posted by WelcomeToK-VilleAmericanGladiators: Darn, and I thought it would be Crowned.
Alien's in America is gone. Once the strike ends, it won't come back.
AiA performs poorly indeed, but if CW wants to get rid of it, why do they repeat it so much? Creatively AiA is probably the best show they have right now, in another time slot it could perform better next year.
Mr Zucker is planning to go further by cutting back enduring features of the television business, including the pilot season, in which networks develop programmes, and the splashy "upfront" presentations in which they tout them to advertisers.
"Things like that are all vestiges of an era that's gone by and won't return," Mr Zucker told the Financial Times.
He made his remarks in the midst of a three-month labour strike by Hollywood writers that has cost thousands of jobs, placed a drag on California's economy and raised questions about the future of the business.
Network executives say the economic model that has sustained television is no longer tenable as production costs soar while audiences fragment among cable channels, websites and video games. One chief complaint concerns the pilot season, in which they fund dozens of samples of new programmes – typically at several million dollars apiece – hoping to unearth a hit.
Mr Zucker appears emboldened to make changes as NBC's audience ratings have improved in the strike's wake, mostly thanks to inexpensive reality shows.
"I think there were a tremendous number of inefficiencies in Hollywood and it often takes a seismic event to change them, and I think that's what's happened here," he said of the strike, predicting that "the development process will change forever."
One rival studio head said: "On the television side of things, you will most likely see change."
Originally posted by robert: I'm afraid even to think about what kind of numbers the Super Bowl will get.
yesterday's game did way better than last year and incredibly better than two years ago (43 and 35 millions respectively)
100 million might be possible
I expect the Super Bowl to crack 100 million with room to spare. Last night's game was an instant classic (albeit a depressing one for me) and with the Patriots going for an undefeated season, I expect the ratings to hit an all-time high.
So You are saying there were people that would not watch the Super Bowl at all, but will now because there is an undefeated team?
The Super Bowl is THE BIG TV Event of the year. It doesn't need anything extra to attract MORe viewers. People will watch the game who never watch football the rest of the year.
Originally posted by mushu_jj: See here's where I completely disagree. Life is Wild after Chris and AiA on Monday would've made most sense with the other 2 comedies (that clearly don't fit with Chris and AiA moved post-Top Model). I would never in my wildest dreams have proposed a Wednesday 9pm slot for LiW for the exact reasons you stated. Ditto for a B&tG pairing but those two comedies are more compatible imo with LiW than they are with the other two sitcoms. Its like going from Malcolm in the Middle's foreign cousin to Sex and the City: Urban Edition. I personally thought a B&tG/Supernatural Sunday combo would've been the best idea with Gossip Girl and OTH then filling out Tuesdays. Reaper would've then followed Smallville. Doesn't that lineup just make more sense?
More sense? You rearranged every night on the schedule except Friday and you put Life is Wild as being compatible with EHC and AiA. No, it doesn't make more sense for CW to put Life is Wild after the two comedies.
