Originally posted by TV-aholic: The events are pretty challenging. Most of the players were pretty worn out by the time they finished the event. Some would even quit before finishing. Very physically demanding.
Expect an American Gladiator style decline in the ratings. Broadcast TV didn't need one of those shows, much less two.
Originally posted by robert: Many thought (not me) that OTH ended on a cliffhanger. Now the "cliffhanger" is resolved. Only CW could've done it. Congrats
Feel free to offer a followup post on this when you find out that you are wrong about the cliffhanger resolution.
As far as i understand McManus will be a regular on SVU so that puts her out of OTH i suppose. If that's right i guess you think the answer on OTH is that the other girl isn't the chosen one also. Anyway, who cares?
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: Wipeout is a straight competition show that involves major obstical courses.
They start with 24 contestants each game. 12 are eliminated after the first event. 6 more are eliminated after the 2nd event. The 3rd event brings the field down to 4 players, which compete for the $50K prise money that week.
The fun part of the show is the commentary by the announcers. They are there to not just give you the action play-by-play, but to make fun too.
The events are pretty challenging. Most of the players were pretty worn out by the time they finished the event. Some would even quit before finishing. Very physically demanding.
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Originally posted by robert: What's Wipeout about? Is Survivor like? Or is more like a sports competition?
So the idea is similar to the one on the last event of Gladiators, right? That's the only part i watch on AG so 60 minutes of even better obstcle courses might not be bad.
I don't watch AG, so not sure how close they are. WIPEOUT is worth watching the full 60 minutes since the competition is only part of the entertainment.
I think those who did sample it last night will return for week two. its short term life looks pretty healthy.
As for long term, thats always hard to say for any show. If/when will viewers grow tired of the style of the show or will they "Jump the Shark"?
I expect WIPEOUT to last longer than AG.
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Originally posted by Obveeus:
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: The events are pretty challenging. Most of the players were pretty worn out by the time they finished the event. Some would even quit before finishing. Very physically demanding.
Expect an American Gladiator style decline in the ratings. Broadcast TV didn't need one of those shows, much less two.
I don't think the drop will be big next week, the problem is what kind of numbers has the show pulled last night. I don't think those numbers will be as good as many predicted.
Originally posted by robert: As far as i understand McManus will be a regular on SVU so that puts her out of OTH i suppose. If that's right i guess you think the answer on OTH is that the other girl isn't the chosen one also. Anyway, who cares?
Apparently, you care...and believe that you have solved the cliff hanger simply because one of the actresses won't be back on OTH full-time next season.
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Its always hard to predict how a new reality show will do and even harder in the summer.
Being an 8pm show, it will not draw a BIG number, I would think. But it did get heavy promotion by ABC, so I am being conservitive with my predicitions of around 6-7 million viewers. Perhaps a 1.8 in the demo.
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Originally posted by robert: I don't think the drop will be big next week, the problem is what kind of numbers has the show pulled last night. I don't think those numbers will be as good as many predicted.
Originally posted by TV-aholic: Its always hard to predict how a new reality show will do and even harder in the summer.
Being an 8pm show, it will not draw a BIG number, I would think. But it did get heavy promotion by ABC, so I am being conservitive with my predicitions of around 6-7 million viewers. Perhaps a 1.8 in the demo.
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Originally posted by robert: I don't think the drop will be big next week, the problem is what kind of numbers has the show pulled last night. I don't think those numbers will be as good as many predicted.
I would say around 6 million which wouldn't be a disaster
Celebrity Family Feud and Wipeout opened the evening tied for first in the overnights, each with a 6.2 rating/11 share. In the early dog days of summer, this is a positive start for both hours. Also airing from 8-9 p.m. was a repeat of CBS’ NICS (5.5/10), a repeat of Hell’s Kitchen on Fox (2.5/ 4), and a repeat of Beauty and the Geek on the CW (1.0/ 2).
The debut of I Survived a Japanese Game Show on ABC dipped to a disappointing third at 9 p.m., with a 5.0/ 9. Retention out of the second half-hour of lead-in Wipeout (6.5/11) was 77 percent, and the loss of audience at 9:30 p.m. was 13 percent (5.3/ 9 to 4.6/ 7). That could be concerning.
I would bet that next week's numbers had CFF dipping, while Wipeout remains steady.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: it did get heavy promotion by ABC
Will that help? After all, other than the last NBA game, no one has been watching ABC in the last week.
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