It is when you consider CBS would normally gross less than half of that amount for regular scheduled programming,
We're talking about the entire half-hour Z -- does CBS really not get $961 thousand for a half-hour's worth of ad time? Even for low-rated Wed at 8pm? I would think that they'd get about $150 thousand per 30 minute ad, which is a conservative estimate. At that rate, they'd get to $900 thousand after 3 minutes of ads. I think it's a good steal.
Date Viewers 18-49
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02/07/08 11.14 M 4.0
02/14/08 8.83 M 3.3
02/21/08 7.46 M 2.6
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Originally posted by vlis: didnt big shots and eli stone start out just as strong?
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Life on Mars is doing great there, and it's the first regularly-scheduled show to have done that.
From what I remember from last season Big Shots hovered around 8-9M viewers and Eli Stone hovered around 7-8M viewers. Neither started out great and were already labeled disappointments. I think only Lost did well post-Grey's. I remember ABC actually moved Eli Stone to post Desperate Housewives to see if that would boost ratings and it did a little bit. Actually I was surprised Eli even got renewed.
Scrubs was never a hit show...never. ANd it should have also ended three seasons ago.
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: This "trooper" has long outstayed its welcome
I hope your constant complaining works as well as it did against Scrubs: a show that announced a series finale date and lived on to another season after you constantly whined about how it needed to end. Keep up the good work!
Originally posted by Zitrone: And ER should be a 'winner' (!).
Just getting Marc to stop writing that it should have ended years ago to save its dignity is enough of a win.
ER was up over a million viewers from last week and was also #1 in the demo in its timeslot, against the premieres of two new shows, with much bigger lead-ins, and the show is 15 years old (and its been announce that this is the final season and it would have ended last season had their not been a strike). So I just dont get how ER doesnt even get an honorable mention... I understand that its way down from what it use to get, but I'd like to see any other serialized drama last for just as long and overall, do just as well.
Originally posted by Marc Berman: Scrubs was never a hit show...never. ANd it should have also ended three seasons ago
Yet your complaining single-handedly kept it alive for another year. Now, it has a good shot at being ABCs top rated comedy not using DwtS as a lead-in.
