I'm not loving Fringe, it's certainly no Lost, but good job on grabbing most of House's audience.
And are you kidding me? Hugh Laurie does 400000 per episode? That's wrong.
On another note, I think Privileged is a really cute show, but the Veronica Mars type numbers aren't good, even without the promotion CW throws at 90210, which lets face it, it's not a good show. If they don't introduce some kind of antagonist in the next few episodes, the numbers could go down, the people aren't interesting.
The pilot of Fringe was horrible, yesterday was better but i still have the feeling this is a bad X-Files rip-off. It's just to similar IMO. What the heck? CSI's spinoffs have less in common with the original CSI than Fringe has with X-Files. The only thing missing so far are the aliens
I enjoy it, but I can't call it a great show, though it has some great actors in it. I'd have to put it in the 'guilty pleasure' department, at least for now.
I think its a case of what NBC was expecting. In the spring, BL debuted to a 10.47 million/4.4 demo. While this may be hard to achieve, NBC would have been happier with a 9 million/3.5 demo. The families idea was supposed to bring in more groups of people to join along.
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It premiered a week before most things last year to a 3.1 as well. What were you expecting, and why do you think it will get lost this year when it clearly didn't last year?
Originally posted by pisher: I enjoy it, but I can't call it a great show, though it has some great actors in it. I'd have to put it in the 'guilty pleasure' department, at least for now.
I agree.
I enjoy it, but I'll admit that I'm not sold yet. The second episode was an improvement over the first though.
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The pilot of Fringe was horrible, yesterday was better but i still have the feeling this is a bad X-Files rip-off. It's just to similar IMO. What the heck? CSI's spinoffs have less in common with the original CSI than Fringe has with X-Files. The only thing missing so far are the aliens
And the supernatural stuff, of which we saw a lot on The X-Files, but probably won't see here, because they want to try and justify everything scientifically (or pseudo-scientifically, anyhow).
You have no idea how many X-Files ripoffs premiered before The X-Files did.
Originally posted by WlcmLAPD: Fringe did very well hanging on to the House audience. It will be interesting to see if it holds out.
Agreed and agreed.
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So much for the argument that Privileged is the next "Gilmore Girls" and somehow going to increase to an audience of 3 million. As I thought, that thinking was way too optimistic and not looking at the ratings trends. I said it would drop 20%, it dropped 19%. It doesn't work with 90210 or the target audience CW wants. It will be replaced mid-season, especially with those low demos.
If you understood the situation the CW was in you wouldn't be making that point. The fact is that the CW doesn't have much to air in terms of replacements. They will already have two hours on Wednesdays to fill this midseason so I don't see them creating holes on other nights. Unless Privileged really drops, I don't see them not giving it a full season. BTW, a 20% drop is actually quite common in terms of new shows. The 18-49 demos may be low, but I bet it still does modestly well in their female demos.
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Good that 90210 held the audience but it still should do better than this.
Numbers are somewhat disappointing but not totally unexpected. Why people thought this would be like superman when it was unproven was the dumb thing.
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Biggest Loser opened up to unimpressive numbers. With increased competition, its going to get lost.
The Biggest Loser has a history of opening slow and building as it goes on. I expect the same this fall, even against House and NCIS.
I enjoy it, but I'll admit that I'm not sold yet. The second episode was an improvement over the first though.
What I'm enjoying, as I said on a different thread, is the character dynamics--they've set up some very interesting relationships, with a lot more potential than the very limited Mulder/Scully dynamic, which consisted primarily of "Will Scully stop pretending nothing weird is happening?" and "Will they ever get together romantically?"
There's only so much you can do with the same two people, over nine seasons and two awful movies. At this point in time, the worst X-Files ripoff ever IS The X-Files.
I still think Fox will give the post-Idol spot back to House this midseason and move Fringe to Mondays at 8 to pair with 24 come January. Then come late spring, replace Fringe with Dollhouse. Next fall, they'll use either one or both of those shows on Monday (depending on how they perform in the 8pm hour).
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Originally posted by WlcmLAPD: The way FOX is performing so far, I don't think they are concerned.
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Originally posted by trebek: Is no one alarmed by the 4 million viewer drop for House?
