Originally posted by vlis: looks like the Mentalist did not get a push from Football??
The viewers dropped, but the demo is up from its usual 4.0ish. Plus, the show didnt start til 10:30 and end around 11:30. If the game would of ended sooner, I bet the numbers would of been better. Anyways, I thought last nights episode was one of the better ones.
It was convoluted, illogical and did not make a whole lot of sense.
Actually. I agree. Last night's Mentalist was one of the worst, if not the worst episode yet. Incredibly boring and the whole bit with Van Pelt was just painful to sit through. I found myself dozing off with about 10 minutes left. Too bad I could tell who the thief was very early in the episode.
ABC shouldn't be airing any of their Sunday shows right now. A smart move for January would've been to air back to back Newleywed eps and then go with non-stop new Housewives and B&S from the week after the Superbowl onward, with a one week break for the Oscars.
As for the 100th episode itself, an amazing episode. The storyline didn't really move forward, but it was just an excellent story.
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Originally posted by WlcmLAPD: While ABC did decently against football, they really did waste DH's 100th Episode. It could have gotten higher ratings if it aired next week.
The rest of the networks were in repeats or filler which was wise. Yesterday's ratings were dominated by football. The Mentalist's retention out of football wasn't good. Less than 50%.
HITW did better than I thought it would. It may end up lasting in that 7pm slot for the time being. Til Death could eventually be an option for back to back 7pm Sunday eps as well.
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Originally posted by robycop3: I guess Fox used HITW as a "filler". It flopped once dueta poor ratings, & it certainly didn't do well yesterday, football or not.
Now, while I liked that show, I certainly wouldn't watch it insteada a live FOOTBALL GAME.
Still, hard to believe that's all Fox has for 'filler'!
Originally posted by vlis: The next new DH is not for 3 weeks. Why didnt they air a repeat last nite and the 100th epi next week? What do you guys think?
By the way, I am looking for ideas as to why and that does not include the programmers have no idea what they are doing.
I don't know what I'm doing, but the serialized shows have always bunched originals together ever since all that backlash over the sporadic Lost S2 scheduling. The only other options were going new-repeat-new-repeat-new or taking a really long hiatus. (though in retrospect both of those were better ideas)
I agree. It's hard to judge the ratings because football caused everything to be lower, but HITW did just as well as Dateline at 7 PM.
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Originally posted by mushu_jj: HITW did better than I thought it would. It may end up lasting in that 7pm slot for the time being. Til Death could eventually be an option for back to back 7pm Sunday eps as well.
For some reason I felt it could hit the 20 million viewer mark. Perhaps it was the late start and perhaps it was the usual dinking around that the networks do after football games, but it just seemed low. Plus, the episode was possibly the worst of the entire series so that wasn't a good choice on CBS's part.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: Why so surprised? Thats about what shows have been doing after a Championship game/Super Bowl.
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Originally posted by lopez: Retention of The Mentalist was only 39% in the demo and 47% in viewers
They could've waited to start new episodes until after the Superbowl was over in February. That way the Grammys would've been the only major event for them to air against. Then they would've had a one week break in there for the Oscars and that would be it. To me that sounds much better than airing against all these big events in January: Golden Globes, NFL Playoffs, 24 premiere, etc.
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Originally posted by vlis: The next new DH is not for 3 weeks. Why didnt they air a repeat last nite and the 100th epi next week? What do you guys think?
By the way, I am looking for ideas as to why and that does not include the programmers have no idea what they are doing.
I don't know what I'm doing, but the serialized shows have always bunched originals together ever since all that backlash over the sporadic Lost S2 scheduling. The only other options were going new-repeat-new-repeat-new or taking a really long hiatus. (though in retrospect both of those were better ideas)
This was the third week that DH has aired a new episode and the third straight people have complained about that fact. I had no idea people likes reruns so much!
Week 1, we were told the ratings were bad because it was the first week back from Christmas break and people didnt know it was new.
Week 2 we were told that ABC is a bunch of schmucks for airing it against the oh-so-scary Golden Globes.
Week 3, ABC is at fault for airing a new episode of DH, a show that scores very well with women, against the football game.
Now, had ABC taken all this wise advice and waited until near the end of January to air a new episode, meaning a break of over a month, let me guss what would have happened. DH would have come back with numbers deemed disappointing. And . . .ABC would be blamed for keeping the show of the air for so long.
By the way, its hard argue with those who argue DH does better when there is no competition. What show doesn't? However, for a long standing hit, and one of the biggest hits of the last few years to have to depend on having no competition to get a decent rating, it suggests the bloom may be of the rose.
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Originally posted by WlcmLAPD: It would have made more sense and would have most likely done better in the ratings with lesser competition.
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Originally posted by vlis: The next new DH is not for 3 weeks. Why didnt they air a repeat last nite and the 100th epi next week? What do you guys think?
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Posts: 1664 | Location: Great White North | Registered: 10 November 2006
1. Great football games this weekend. Well, great for me since the two teams I wanted to see win, did, and I am no longer sitting in last place of the football pick-em.
2. Desperate Housewives 100th episode. Seriously, does the #100 make it better writing or better acting? Who cares about the episode number in terms of watching a show? DH did about what GA did Thursday...the two shows are both getting long in the tooth and losing viewers, but in both cases they were up against stellar competition and people are reading far too much into the low numbers. In another two weeks, when the DVR numbers come out, those two show will likely top the list.
3. The Mentalist is clearly not a hit and people need to stop calling it such. It may be the biggest hit of this season, but that just goes as proof that this season has been an overall failure. TM will keep pulling in the elderly CBS crowd and be a perfect fit for them on Tuesdays, but it isn't going to 'breal out' when no one else wants to sample it...or they did sample it and rejected the smarmy Bush impersonator.
4. Big Bang Theory Did those previews show that horrible speach impediment nemesis to Sheldon returning? Yuck, what a truly unwatchable character. Has this show tossed itself in the toilet by replacing Sara Gilbert'ds character with this putz?
5. United States of Tara...blame xwiseguyx for tricking me into watching an episode of this through Netflix. Bad news, xwiseguyx: I liked it enough to watch another episode (if it keeps being 'free' on Netflix). It was definitely the typical low production values of cable TV, but it was better than the Secret Diary of a Call Girl episode.
6. I wish that Lifetime had left Rita Rocks on Tuesday instead of moving it to Mondays. It sucks to have two of the best comedies on all of TV right now on in the same time timeslot.
7. Battlestar Galactica was back this weekend (Friday night). Fantastic, as always.
Originally posted by Obveeus: 4. Big Bang Theory Did those previews show that horrible speach impediment nemesis to Sheldon returning? Yuck, what a truly unwatchable character. Has this show tossed itself in the toilet by replacing Sara Gilbert'ds character with this putz?
Posts: 1664 | Location: Great White North | Registered: 10 November 2006
Originally posted by PaulC: Catch me up. What DID happen to Sara Gilbert?
I have not seen any explanation for the absense of her character in recent episodes. At the start of the seaosn, she was supposed to be a regular recurring character, but it now seem that the writers would rather low-brow the show and have another dysfuctional, dweeby male that cannot speak English very well as Sheldon's new 'arch nemesis'. This is a major step backwards for the show. Hopefully the character really isn't back and won't be back.
This was the third week that DH has aired a new episode and the third straight people have complained about that fact. I had no idea people likes reruns so much!
