I would still like to see that second CBS comedy night on Sundays. Medium is not a winner by barley beating a repeat of Miami. As for DWTS (which I do not watch) I'd say has a few more years before it falls away. Remember, people have been pronouncing Survivor's death for five years and it keeps on keeping on by winning its timeslot against regular competition. As long as DWTS can maintain 70% of the numbers it is getting now it will be fine.
As for DWTS (which I do not watch) I'd say has a few more years before it falls away. Remember, people have been pronouncing Survivor's death for five years and it keeps on keeping on by winning its timeslot against regular competition. As long as DWTS can maintain 70% of the numbers it is getting now it will be fine.
I don't think DWTS is anywhere near ending anytime soon -- sure, the men last night were not up to usual standards, but the women tonight look strong, and two of those men will be eliminated next week. As long as they settle down a bit and we get a few engaging personalities, DWTS will stay close to last Fall's numbers.
Originally posted by Chimera: FOX is kicking everyone's behind -- it'll be interesting to see how much ABC and CBS rebound with their returning shows.
And ABC's viewership number is really low -- over 3 million lower than their season average...
Dumont, have you given any thought to having an April monthly prediction game, which is the first month the networks will have most of their shows back? I know you will do May because of the sweeps, but I think predicting April would be fun as well.
Thanks for the suggestion Chimera, but I'm not sure how a monthly game would work...most reporting is for daily, weekly or Sweep period numbers, and there are already prediction games established for those reporting periods. Calendar monthly reporting would be a whole new category, and would involve quite a bit of work to set up and monitor. I'll give it some thought for April.
The advantage of the Sweep Prediction Game carries with it that all the networks are trying their very best with their freshest, strongest programming so as to attract viewers, impress advertisers and ultimately please affiliates (who depend on good Sweep numbers for setting rate-cards in non-metered markets).
It's a cophow. The actors make Lena Headey look like a superstar by comparison. There are no big action scenes.
Pisher, normally your English is impeccable, but here, you have used a term for which there is no definition provided in any dictionary that I have on hand. Nor are there any intelligible Google results for it. So what the heck does "cophow" mean precisely? Just curious.
Edited to add: Ahhhh, thanks Vlis. That must be it.
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With all of you raving about the big bang theory, I might give it a second chance, but I caught the first two episodes and it didn't really take. Has it changed much, really, what makes it so great?
Originally posted by TV-aholic: For the last 2 years, you've had two editions of DWtS, then FOX has its summer So You Think You Can Dance, then ABC ads a third Dance Wars.
Now, Lifetime has Your mama Don't Dance and I saw some show on MTV that was a "hipper" dance competiton show.
By the time DWtS hits its fall premiere, you will have had about 24 straight months of Dancing Competitions shows. Will there be viewer burnout on the genre?
The thing that has given AI the legs it has is that it is only on for 5 months of the year and no other show can really do what it does.
Survivor has lasted, what, almost 20 seasons? There have been oodles of clones in various ways, shapes, and forms. The fact is that most people do not even know of the cable shows. Only SYTYCD has gotten anywhere close to Dwts-like ratings. Its going nowhere. Just like Idol, which when you add the weeks together, only airs a few weeks less per year than Dancing, isn't going anywhere.
Originally posted by pisher: Man--you really LOATHE NA, don't you? You just can't wait for it to be canceled. Bizarre, since you claim to never watch it.
My only claim is that NA is doing much worse than PD and SCC. I don't have any strong feeling against it, in fact I suggested above that FOX should cancel CL and air some House repeats if it wants to save NA.
I would love to see what New Amsterdam would be doing with any sort of a lead in and I would've loved to see what SCC would've done with a lead in like Canterburry's Law. NA really isn't doing that badly and if Fox were wise, would give it that House repeat lead in.
Originally posted by mushu_jj: I would love to see what New Amsterdam would be doing with any sort of a lead in and I would've loved to see what SCC would've done with a lead in like Canterburry's Law. NA really isn't doing that badly and if Fox were wise, would give it that House repeat lead in.
I agree. Considering that NA is sort of being left to dangle in the wind at the moment, I think it's doing reasonably well and there is more than ample evidence that even if viewers are avoiding CL they are purposely tuning back in for NA.
Originally posted by Jared: I didn't find either BBT nor HIMYM that funny last night, and I like both shows, so I hope this won't lead to an audience tune-out next week. I'm happy to see they both did well.
I switched over to "My Dad" and "Deal or No Deal" a bit during the commercial breaks.
There will not be an audiance tune out next week, as Brit Brit is going to be. Like I said, expect somewhere around 11 or 12 million for How I Met Your Mother.
On another note, I thought HIMYM was funny last night, the whole "lop-sided appartment" made me laugh a bunch, but I still don't find the appeal to the Barney sex life.
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SHOW/NET HH A18-49 Viewers A18-34
ABC 9.5/15 4.4/12 15,002,000
CBS 6.6/11 4.0/10 10,588,000
NBC 5.2/8 2.6/7 8,183,000
FOX 4.1/6 2.0/5 6,487,000
CW 1.0/2 0.6/2 1,436,000 0.7/2
DANCING WITH THE STARS 13.3/21 5.6/15 21,147,000
THE BACHELOR (9:32pm) 5.6/9 3.2/8 8,578,000
BIG BANG THEORY 5.4/9 3.6/11 8,932,000
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (8:29pm) 5.8/9 4.3/11 9,612,000
TWO AND A HALF MEN (8:59pm) 8.5/13 5.4/13 14,057,000
OLD CHRISTINE (9:30pm) 7.1/11 4.3/11 11,470,000
MY DAD IS BETTER THAN YOUR DAD 2.8/5 1.4/4 4,398,000
DEAL OR NO DEAL 6.2/10 2.9/7 10,080,000
MEDIUM 6.4/11 3.3/9 10,072,000
CANTERBURY'S LAW 3.6/6 1.7/5 5,707,000
NEW AMSTERDAM 4.5/7 2.3/6 7,267,000
GIRLICIOUS 1.1/2 0.7/2 1,635,000 0.8/2
Originally posted by TravisYanan: MY DAD IS BETTER THAN YOUR DAD 2.8/5 1.4/4 4,398,000
In the words of a once famous NBC gameshow: You are the weakest link...goodbye! Speaking of which, that could be the slogan for NBC this coming spring.
-Yesterday’s Winners: Dancing With the Stars (ABC), CSI: Miami (CBS)
-Honorable Mention: Deal or No Deal (NBC), 24 (Fox)
-Yesterday’s Losers: How I Met Your Mother (CBS), The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS), Everybody Hates Chris (CW), All of Us (CW), Girlfriends (CW), The Game (CW), What About Brian (ABC), The Black Donnellys (NBC)
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-Ratings Breakdown: ABC was off and running for the week, with the fourth season-premiere of the addictive Dancing With the Stars at a hefty 21.65 million viewers and a 6.3 rating/16 share among adults 18-49 from 8-10 p.m. Here is the half-hour breakdown:
Comparatively (and in the midst of American Idol mania, no less), Dancing With the Stars increased from its third-season opener on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006 (Viewers: 20.22 million; A18-49: 5.7/15 from 8-10 p.m., based on the final nationals) by 1.43 million viewers and 11 percent among adults 18-49. Although a two-hour edition of NBC’s Deal or No Deal held up opposite Dancing With the Stars with 14.05 million viewers and a 4.2/11 among adults 18-49, CBS took a noticeable hit. Take a look:
8:00 p.m. How I Met Your Mother – Viewers: 7.53 million (#4), A18-49: 2.9/ 8 (#4) 8:30 p.m. The New Adventures of Old Christine – Viewers: 6.86 million (#4), A18-49: 2.5/ 7 (#4) 9:00 p.m. Two and a Half Men – Viewers: 11.62 million (#4), A18-49: 4.0/10 (#4) 9:30 p.m. Rules of Engagement – Viewers: 9.32 million (#4), A18-49: 3.6/ 8 (#4)
As for the individual performances on Dancing With the Stars last night, crooner Billy Ray Cyrus was arguably the worst but those country music fans are likely to keep him intact. So, my advice to former talk show host Leeza Gibbons is to take it up several notches next Monday or it could be curtains. Look for the first Dancing With the Stars elimination round on Tuesday, March 27 at 8 p.m. ET.
Also in the 8-10 p.m. block were Fox dramas Prison Break (Viewers: #3, 8.26 million; A18-49: #3, 3.5/ 9) and 24 (Viewers: #3: 11.88 million; A18-49: #2, 4.7/11), which held up well opposite Dancing With the Stars, and fading CW sitcoms Everybody Hates Chris (Viewers: 2.66 million; A18-49: 1.1/ 3), All of Us (Viewers: 2.46 million; A18-49: 1.0/ 2), Girlfriends (Viewers: 2.11 million; A18-49: 1.0/ 2) and The Game (Viewers: 2.14 million; A18-49: 1.0/ 2). The CW, no doubt, needs to sharpen the axe if it wants to make inroads on Monday next season.
CBS moved into the winner’s circle at 10 p.m. care of old faithful CSI: Miami (Viewers: 17.43 million; A18-49: 5.3/14), which built from lead-in Rules of Engagement by a hefty 8.11 million viewers and 47 percent among adults 18-49. Comparably, that beat ABC’s What About Brian (Viewers: #2, 7.38 million; A18-49: #2, 2.8/ 8) and NBC’s The Black Donnellys (Viewers: #3, 5.83 million; A18-49: #3, 2.4/ 6) combined by 4.22 million viewers and two percent in the demo. Although Dancing With the Stars gave What About Brian a lift, by 10:30 p.m. the waiting-to-be canceled drama dipped by 3.19 million viewers (8.98 to 5.79 million) and 30 percent among adults 18-49 (3.3/ 8 to 2.3/ 7).
Source: Nielsen Media Research data
So really, CBS is a SUPER WINNER. Look at how much better they're doing, and with the same competiton as last year [DWtS premiere].
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Originally posted by spotupj: So much for HIMYM's "bubble" status. Couldn't have imagined those kinds of numbers, and it is a bona fide "winner" in my book. And Big Bang returned within a couple hundred K of where it was when its originals ended, despite the tougher slot.
I'm really excited about these numbers.
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