Really good number for Smackdown especially since I thought they would get between 1.5-2.0 since alot of people were trying to figure out where the network was.
That's easily about 4 million viewers, the highest in the network's history.
The Clone Wars got off to an amazing start with 4 million viewers also.
I created a replica of what each network's should look like starting with ABC, time of year is not configured here:
ABC
ABC Monday 8-Dancing With the Stars 10-Castle (mid-season pickup)
ABC Tuesday 8-New Charlie Brown Series 8:30-New Family Comedy/Jim/The Incredibles or another Animated Half-Hour Show 9-Dancing With the Stars Results 10-The Unusuals (mid-season pickup starring Amber Tamblyn)
ABC Wednesday 8-Ugly Betty 9-Dirty Sexy Money 10-Life on Mars
ABC Thursday 8-The Secret Life of the American Teenager 9-Grey's Anatomy 10-Private Practice
ABC Friday TGIF 8-Hannah Montana 8:30-New Disney Channel Comedy/Wizards of Waverly Place 9-New Family Comedy/Brady Bunch remake 9:30-New Family Comedy 10-20/20
ABC Saturday 8-College Football/ABC's Wide World of Sports
ABC Sunday 7-America's Funniest Home Videos 8-Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 9-Desperate Housewives 10-Brothers & Sisters
NBC
NBC Monday 8-Deal or No Deal (keep it to once a week) 9-Heroes 10-My Own Worst Enemy/Heroes Spin-Off
NBC Wednesday 8-Charlie's Angels remake/drama remake 9-Law & Order 10-New Medical Drama Series (starring John Stamos to keep him on the network)
NBC Thursday 8-The Partridge Family 9-The Office 9:30-New Conan O'Brien Sitcom 10-ER Creator New LAPD Procedural
NBC Friday 8-New Game Show/Let's Make a Deal remake 9-Crusoe/something else if Crusoe fails 10-Life
NBC Saturday 8-iCarly (buy it from Nickelodeon) 8:30-New NBC comedy/Kath & Kim 9-Saturday Night Live Prime Time or Saturday Night Live Sketch Half-Hours 10-Law & Order repeats
NBC Sunday Sunday Night Football in the fall 7-Chuck 8-Knight Rider 9-Kings/or other mid-season placement/Medium 10-Law & Order spin-off
CBS
CBS Monday 8-The Big Bang Theory 8:30-Rules of Engagement 9-Two and a Half Men 9:31-Gary Unmarried 10-Hawaii Five-0 remake
CBS Tuesday 8-NCIS 9-The Mentalist 10-The Streets of San Francisco remake
CBS Wednesday 8-How I Met Your Mother 8:30-Old Christine 9-Criminal Minds 10-CSI: NY
CBS Thursday 8-The Price Is Right 9-CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 10-The Eleventh Hour
CBS Friday 8-Ghost Whisperer 9-Without a Trace 10-NUMB3RS
CBS Saturday 8-60 Minutes 9-Cold Case 10-48 Hours Mystery
CBS CBS Sunday 7-During Football Season Special New Lead-in Programming/Million Dollar Password 8-Cycles between Survivor and Amazing Race 9-CSI: Miami 10-Flashpoint/The Unit
FOX without American Idol Schedule
FOX Mondays 8-Dollhouse 9-24
FOX Tuesday 8-House 9-Fringe
FOX Wednesday 8-Bones 9-Kitchen Nightmares
FOX Thursday 8-5th Grader 9-Don't Forget the Lyrics!/Secret Millionaire
FOX Friday 8-Til' Death 8:30-New FOX Comedy 9-New Game Show/Game Show remake
FOX Saturday 8-COPS 9-America's Most Wanted
FOX Sunday 8-The Simpsons 8:30-New Animated Comedy (forget the name) 9-Family Guy 9:30-The Cleveland Show
The WB no longer The CW
WB Monday 8-America's Best Dance Crew (buy it from MTV) 9-FAME remake
WB Wednesday 8-Top Model and Stylista between cycles 9-New WB Drama
WB Thursday 8-New Robin Series 9-Both Supernatural and Reaper alternate in between cycles
WB Friday 8-Everybody Hates Chris 8:30-New WB Sitcom 9-New WB Sitcom 9:30-The Game
WB Sunday 5-In Harm's Way 6-Valentine/Easy Money (whichever one has the better ratings) 7-One Tree Hill/Gossip Girl 8-CSI: Chicago or CSI: Detroit 9-New Procedural
MyNetworkTV
My Monday 8-Prison Break/PB Spin-Off feat. Women's Prison 9-Magic Hour
My Tuesday 8-Street Patrol 9-JAIL
My Wednesday 8-Tony Rock 8:30-Under One Roof 9-Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
My Thursday 8-Hole in the Wall/Moment of Truth/Celebrity Expose 9-1 vs 100 or movies/Smackdown specials
My Friday 8-WWE Friday Night Smackdown!
My Saturday 8-My Saturday Movie
My Sunday 8-Funniest with Hall 9-Twilight Zone or hand it over to affiliates
NBC should produce a daytime lineup to compete with ABC. With NBC airing American Gladiators once a week and ABC airing Wipeout against it once a week at 5pm eastern time.
I know I'll probably get a beat down for creating a schedule, but your honesty is appreciated in advance for taking the time to look at it.
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How can you say Desperate Housewives is in trouble??-LOL. It's still getting 15 million an episode - that's still one of ABC's strongest shows, for being in its fourth season, so that's not bad at all. If it was dipping into the 13 million range, then that would be huge trouble, but its not. It'll probably stay at 15 million. AFV is still strong, and Extreme Makeover was back to normal levels. Brothers and Sisters was a huge disappointment, though. 10 million??? It should be getting at least 12, even with the weaker lead-in this week.
I do agree, though, that ABC has a lot of weak links in their schedule. They feed off DWTS, Grey's, and Desperate Housewives for their ratings, but besides that, what other shows do they have that you could consider hits? They have nothing in the sitcom department, which is a huge mistake IMO. They need TGIF back, and some good shows to go on it. They're consistently losing on Fridays, and TGIF would definitely get them back on the top.
How much longer can the Simpsons go? FOX needs to consider cancelling it soon, because it's not getting anywhere near what it used to. And King of the Hill and American Dad will be goners of Cleveland and Sit Down, Shut Up do well. They need to be, at least.
Originally posted by yankeesrj12: How much longer must we wait to see Friday Night Smackdown's numbers? I usually don't care for ratings, but I really want to see if viewers switched to MNTV.
They did. Overall fast national rating, 2.4, reports Wrestling Observer. That would equal Smackdown's fast nat for its final CW episode.
I would be willing to bet that is CWs last week number as I do not believe that MNTV's numbers are released with fast nationals. You don't know until the finals are released which will come sometime tomorrow.
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Originally posted by robert: You had me at Secret Life on ABC's thursday. Do you want ABC dead?
LOL - I was thinking the exact same thing.
Seriously Bluelick, youre entire schedules are, for the most part, unbelievable. Why would ABC move Ugly Betty to Wednesdays in favor of Secret Life, which would do no more than 4 million viewers? And I can't stand the idea of Disney Channel shows going to ABC - how can a network airings shows like Desperate Housewives air shows like Hannah Montana? It makes no sense at all.
The only thing that is sensible is Private Practic moving to Wednesdays. If Life on Mars turns out to be a smash hit, it and PP should swap slots.
Originally posted by TravisYanan: CW Sunday was actually higher rated than something. MRC's version of CW Sunday!
Big week two drops for DH and B&S. Spells trouble for Grey's this Thursday against CSI, especially after that week off for the VP debate.
Forget abot CW, the real loser is once again ABC. Terrible numbers for DH and B&S. As i said jumping 5 years ahead was a stupid stupid idea. I hated the first 2 episodes, and clealy i'm not the only one. With these numbers in october wonder how DH/B&S will do in spring
A drop from last week, yes. And it could be the same next week, go down a bit more, or even go up. But, to say ABC was a loser last night and to call the numbers for DH and B&S are terrible is a bit wrong. I mean, lackluster from previous seasons, yes. But, terrible?
You can have your opinion. IMO 15 million for DH so soon in the season is terrible. Next week more people will watch The Mentalist i suppose
What do you mean does the Mentalist change air date all of a sudden or is it repeats?
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bluelick, you have a killer cbs lineup that's really powerful. i like the move of without a trace to friday and the streets of san francisco taking its place. miami also has a good spot to set the tone on sundays. nbc's lineup is looking alot better.
the only ones i disagree with is abc and fox. seriously, teenager on abc. LOL!
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BlueLick, thanks for a good laugh. That line-up would NEVER happen. There would be wayyyyyyyyyy to many network transitions and the networks would become more geared towards kids. That's what the other networks (Disney, Nick) are for. Plus, that is way to many remakes. The networks need something original, not something that has been done before.
BlueLick, great job there. Like Scotty said you have a good CBS lineup and you should take Silverman's job at NBC. I'm a little iffy on ABC though and you could've done FOX better.
The WB and MyNetworkTV lineups are really good. The WB is a little more iffy, but MNTV would benefit.
I'll give you a full review later on how you did with each network.
Originally posted by Julie: How can you say Desperate Housewives is in trouble??-LOL. It's still getting 15 million an episode - that's still one of ABC's strongest shows, for being in its fourth season, so that's not bad at all. If it was dipping into the 13 million range, then that would be huge trouble, but its not. It'll probably stay at 15 million.
Actually DH is in its 5th season so its doing better then you stated
Back by popular demand: Game #81 of the P.I. Feedback Challenge! This game (which features an incredibly well done graphic job by PIFC creator Douglas), you pick 5 shows, one from each network, that you think will do the best over a 4 week period. Play more games and make a run for the PIFC Cup, a "season" long race for who does best in the PIFC. New Games debut each Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. Deadline is each Tuesday @ 7:59am eastern. We need 10 more to join by Tuesday morning to get nightly market by market ratings!
Daily Game Each day we pick one show and you guess how many Total Viewers it will get and it's 18-49 demo rating. Accumulate Medals to see how well you can do with the other players.
MediaPost.com reports that MyNetworkTV's 'WWE FRiday Night Smackdown' was watched by 3.2 million viewers (establishing a new network high) and garnered a 1.0 in the 18-to-49 demo (tieing an all-time network high).
Originally posted by yankeesrj12: How much longer must we wait to see Friday Night Smackdown's numbers? I usually don't care for ratings, but I really want to see if viewers switched to MNTV.
They did. Overall fast national rating, 2.4, reports Wrestling Observer. That would equal Smackdown's fast nat for its final CW episode.
BlueLick, I know you are just having fun scheduling and it's your opinion, but you just killed CW and MNTV in one shot. Putting shows that no one watches on FOX on MNTV will just sink them. It costs money to move shows over. In addition, none of them fit MNTV's target audience so you just sunk their target audience also. And seriously a fame remake? Fame the reality show bombed hard. You also can't add seven new shows on CW plus buying additional ones. It would be way over their budget for development and marketing. MRC brought Sunday for the whole year. You can't just put random CW shows on a block that isn't CW's to program to begin with.
CBS has a Criminal Minds spinoff. That will be on the schedule. Moving CSI:Miami isn't a good move. Why are you putting Disney stuff on ABC? ABC has made a huge attempt to keep it separate and only dabbles in movies every once in a while. You just killed ABC Fridays. And Secret Life of An American Teenager? That's just bizarre. Where did that even come from?
I'm afraid with NBC's lineup, they would be 6th place, even worse than MNTV and CW. Some of these programming choices are confusing. Why would NBC want to keep John Stamos? NBC would not buy Nick shows. Conan? Ok? And putting the Patridge Family on Thursday just killed the whole night. Talk about the worst lead in possible. I'm hoping they don't air the show at all. As for Saturday, NBC They would just put Thom Beers shows on to put cheap programming on and remain competitive.
FOX is your most reasonable but that's because you didn't create shows that don't exist (and wouldn't be greenlit) or bring shows over that never would come over.
Originally posted by dumont: MediaPost.com reports that MyNetworkTV's 'WWE FRiday Night Smackdown' was watched by 3.2 million viewers (establishing a new network high) and garnered a 1.0 in the 18-to-49 demo (tieing an all-time network high).
Right about where it was expected to be, then.
Score the round #1 victory for Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network. Since that is a scripted series, it will likely drop next week, but the Smackdown event was a 'special' series likely to drop some viewers as well. This could be a close race in weeks to come.
