I wonder how many of the Fringe viewers tuned in due to word-of-mouth. I told several people who missed the premier to try it on Sunday. I also got a call from a friend suggesting I watch it. The decent repeat numbers could also just have been non-football fans looking for some relief.
Speaking of football, T:SCC and PB are going to get hammered again tonight. Dallas vs. Philly is going to be a huge game and a ratings sponge.
What's this preview thing all about and why do I need to register?
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: Folks...don;t forget to register for my Fall 2008 TV PReview next Monday.
Originally posted by BlueLick: make sure you read the weekend fixes
Good Football Games Ignite CBS & NBC plus Fringe Has Repeat Value
BlueLick's Sunday Winners: NFL Overrun (CBS), Sunday Night Football (NBC), Big Brother 10 (CBS)
Solid: Fringe R (FOX), America's Funniest Home Videos R (ABC)
Needs to Move to Saturdays: 60 Minutes (CBS)
Let me start of by saying I enjoyed yesterday's NFL games and alot of them were disappointing to my football polls, but exciting finishes all day. The Chargers-Broncos game was exciting and the Chargers should've won that game as Ed blew that call big time. Browns-Steelers got good mileage getting 15-16 million viewers. So far SNF is off to a great start this year and I'm looking for a win against the slidding Emmys next week of 20 million viewers from Cowboys-Packers.
GO MATT CASSEL!
This is one of the last Sundays of the 2007-08 season where we see all of these repeats, but two of them stick out for me last night that's America's Funniest Home Videos and Fringe. AFV seems to live off of past reputation as I haven't seen this show in over 10 years, but it repeats so well. I get my crazy video fix from YouTube and other video sites. Fringe has repeat value as it held onto over 50% of their premiere audience. Fringe is one FOX may want to hold onto as its not easy getting almost 6 million viewers for a repeat scripted show now in days. Fringe will be in the class of X-Files, 90210, Melrose Place, Party of Five, NY Undercover, 24, House, and Bones as FOX's best rated dramas. Desperate Housewives had its best repeat numbers in a long time and it starts on syndication next weekend and already airing in bad timeslots on Lifetime right now on weekdays.
BB10, didn't watch it last night as I just can't watch Memphis for a whole hour, but this is shaping up to be a great season and I can't wait for Tuesday's episode.
CBS you've got an issue on Sunday night that should be addressed while you have the rights to the NFL on CBS. More than likely the NFL's highest rated network CBS will renew past 2013, but 60 Minutes should not be getting the lead-in anymore. CBS could've used BB10 behind that 18 million viewers. In my next paragraph I'm going to discuss Saturday nights and how the networks really need to start broadcasting originals on this night.
Weekend Fixes: Let me start off with Friday b/c I did not get a chance to write my ratings column on Friday or Saturday. 5th Grader and DFTL had a great Friday even though both were down. Alot of pre-emptions on Friday so I expected the downs and ups for news in the ratings. DFTL got 6.3 million viewers on a Friday last year that pretty much saved that series. 5th Grader will have alot of special episodes to get that rating between 8-9 million viewers. SD was affected by heavy amounts of pre-emptions and still winded up being The CW's top show this week against originals. CW is in trouble after September 26 when they lose SD for good to rising MyNetworkTV.
I think after seeing Olympics, SNL reach 11-12 million viewers, College Football, COPS, AMW all reach good viewer numbers that its time for NBC, CBS, and ABC to start programming original programming. ABC will be remaking Wide World of Sports so I'll give them a pass.
If Knight Rider fails on Wednesdays lets move it to Saturdays and how about CBS moving both Cold Case and 60 Minutes to Saturdays. This will allow CBS to bump their new programming with NFL games as a lead-in.
There was also some talk on a radio show I listen to here in the mornings that Saturday Night Live should help NBC produce half-hour sketch shows inside of prime-time on Saturday Nights. This will allow NBC to fix their comedy roster or maybe even air some of their mid-season sitcoms on Saturday nights. I don't think they will do that bad if they promote the night all week long.
Other Notes: JAIL got over 2 million viewers last Tuesday and Street Patrol did well also on their premiere night. MNTV is on the rise.
I was surprised myself at Fringe's numbers for sure. They were more than I thought they would get.
I don't like to tell the networks what to do financially, but they should really try originals on Saturdays. If SNL can get a 7.4 around 11pm then there's an audience at home waiting to watch something on TV.
Empty Nest and The District are not that far removed from successful runs on Saturday Nights.
The same amount of people go out on Saturday Nights then they did back in 1978 when The Love Boat reigned supreme. I think it might be less b/c there are reasons to stay at home like internet, video games, cable TV options, On Demand with video rentals, and even more. These 40 million people want the networks to give them a reason to watch network TV on Saturdays.
Originally posted by xwiseguyx: they should have kept Thank God You're Here and put that on Sat nights... primetime and/or late night.
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Originally posted by BlueLick: There was also some talk on a radio show I listen to here in the mornings that Saturday Night Live should help NBC produce half-hour sketch shows inside of prime-time on Saturday Nights. This will allow NBC to fix their comedy roster or maybe even air some of their mid-season sitcoms on Saturday nights. I don't think they will do that bad if they promote the night all week long.
I agree with you and Thank God You're Here had potential for a timeslot like that. It would take the pressure off and allow the series to ultimately grow.
Originally posted by Lost_Dom: Anyone know how True Blood did? The second episode was much better than the first, and now I have to say I'm completely hooked! Can't wait for episode 3!
Yeah this show is pretty amazing. Also HBO shows there shows every day through the week so it can gain ratings everytime it is on. That is why i don't think they care to much about the ratings for 1 night because people can watch it anytime of the week. I heard HBO gave Allan Ball go ahead to talk about season 2 to the press that is a very good sign. This sohow is only gonna get better with lots af mystical creatures like werewolfs and other scary stuff. But it would still be nice to know how it did
I know a lot of people who are ardent Buffy fans who really can't get into True Blood for some reason....Most of it seems to be they don't like Anna Paquin's acting. I will admit that some of them tend to be real snobs about Buffy (and Joss Whedon shows in general- they're all panicking because of the two-week shutdown on Dollhouse), so that's something to consider as well.
Originally posted by Walter: im trying to put icons on my thing but the only thing that shows up is the url?
Courtesy of TV-aholic, here's what you have to do:
1) Click your name and select "View ____ Public Profile". 2) Then click the link "View/Edit Complete Profile" 3) Scroll down to "Signature" text box and use the code below. 4) Instead of the { bracket, us a [ bracket. Here is the code for using an icon. just substitue the URL for the icon you want to use. {IMG}http://anythingkiss.com/pi_feedback_challenge/graphics/gifs/promo_GSFJ.gif{/IMG}. 5) To get the URL of an icon, right click the icon/image itself, then select properties.
It's about time. I try to watch it sometimes, but it's almost all talk! They show about 30 seconds of a song. I remember back in 2000ish when they showed nearly/all of the song.
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