tv ratings-related stories
Posted Dec 30th 2009 5:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: News, Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free
You can probably guess that Fox News dominated the ratings in 2009. In fact, thirteen of their shows made it to the top fifteen of the year. The other seven spots of the top 20 are made up of various MSNBC and CNN shows, with only
Countdown with Keith Olbermann and
Larry King Live cracking the top fifteen.
After the jump, the top fifteen (and
here's the whole list).
Continue reading Guess which network had thirteen of the top fifteen cable news shows in 2009?
Posted Dec 11th 2009 4:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free
We're talking ratings here, not quality of the shows. Nielsen has the
top ten rated shows for 2009 and also has a couple of other categories, including the top ten single telecasts and the top ten time-shifted shows of the year (you might not guess that).
Speaking of not guessing what something is, you're never going to believe what the number ten show is on the top ten rated shows of the year list.
The Live Feed was surprised and I'm not sure I'm convinced either. The full list of the ten highest-rated shows is after the jump.
Continue reading Nielsen releases their list of the top ten shows of 2009
Posted Dec 3rd 2009 5:28PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Animation, Ratings, Reality-Free
This is the kind of TV ratings news that warms my heart: last night's airing of
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer on CBS was the most-watched show of the entire night on any of the other networks, including
Christmas in Rockefeller Center,
So You Think You Can Dance,
The Middle,
The Grammy Nominations Concert, and
Glee.
The Rankin/Bass Christmas special with the dentist elf and random misfit toys grabbed an impressive 10.7 million viewers.
That's pretty good for a 45 year-old animated special that we've all seen 97 times (and probably own on DVD), no? There's something amazingly comforting about that: the same Christmas specials (
Rudolph,
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town,
It's A Wonderful Life,
A Charlie Brown Christmas, etc) are pulled out every single year and we still watch them. It's the sort of television comfort food that we can't resist.
Posted Sep 22nd 2009 1:34PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Heroes, Ratings, Reality-Free
The
ratings for the first Monday of the fall TV season are in, and it's not looking good at all for
Heroes.
The NBC show dropped 46% from last season's one hour season opener. Which reminds me,
Heroes should never be two hours long. Last night's first hour was boring as hell, and then the second hour was more interesting but still muddy, frustrating, and all over the place.
In other ratings news,
House did really well, CBS came in second, and
Dancing with the Stars didn't do as well as people thought it would (or it usually does).
Posted Aug 14th 2009 8:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, TiVo, Reality-Free
Everyone is always up in arms about the
Nielsen ratings, saying they don't accurately represent the shows that a lot of people like or aren't measured correctly or simply don't matter in this age of DVRs, iTunes, network web sites, and DVDs.
Now it looks like the
networks are giving a thought to providing an alternative. CBS, NBC, Disney, News Corp, Discovery, Time Warner, and Viacom are getting together and hope to have some sort of plan on what the "consortium" will do by the end of September. A VP at Starcom MediaVest, one of the companies involved, says that they don't necessarily want to replace Nielsen but there's no reason why another company can't "come in and do both [TV measurement and digital measurement]"
[via
TV Tattle]
Posted Aug 12th 2009 5:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Game Show, Ratings, Reality-Free
I have to admit, I'm a lover of game shows but even I'm not watching the 10th anniversary edition of
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on ABC. I keep forgetting it's even on, but if I remembered at 8PM I'd still skip it. Maybe it's the daytime version or the fact that
it's on GSN several times a day.
The
ratings haven't been too great in general (though
they could be worse). Are you watching it?
Posted Mar 14th 2009 4:26PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Reality-Free, Dollhouse
To put it bluntly, it seems no one cares about
The Sarah Connor Chronicles anymore, and people continue to not care about the new show
Dollhouse.
The TV Addict has the ratings for last night's show, and both of these FOX action dramas just don't seem to have a future. In the 8pm hour,
Ghost Whisperer,
Wife Swap, and
Howie Do It all beat
The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The FOX show did beat
Everybody Hates Chris by a wide margin, if that's any consolation (answer: it's not). In the 9pm hour,
Flashpoint,
Supernanny, and
Friday Night Lights all came in ahead of Joss Whedon's
Dollhouse. FOX didn't have a show at 10pm, but if it did, it would have been beaten by
Numb3rs,
20/20, and several local cable access shows.
Continue reading Sarah Connor not as strong as the Ghost Whisperer or the wife swapper
Posted Feb 5th 2009 2:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free
I'll admit that I'm not too thrilled with TNT's new drama
Trust Me yet. I want it to be much better than it is.
Of course, the key word there is "yet," because we all know that TV shows can get better as they go along in their first season, and even into their second. Unfortunately, we now live in a fast-paced TV world where shows have to pretty much be a hit from the get-go. Sure, shows on premium cable networks like HBO andf Showtime often get a longer honeymoon because there's less ratings pressure, but for the most part, shows either have to be a big hit early, show growth over the weeks (in general or in a certain demographic), or have to have a lot of "buzz" that cancels out (at least temporarily) any notions of a cancellation (like
Gossip Girl).
But
Trust Me?
The ratings are in free fall.
Continue reading Can Trust Me be saved?
Posted Nov 20th 2008 8:07AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Programming, Video, Reality-Free
You would think that the highest-rated
Comedy Central show of all-time would either be an episode of
South Park or one of the nightly news satire programs,
The Daily Show or
The Colbert Report. It's actually none of those. The biggest audience-getter was a Christmas special featuring various puppets.
The Sunday debut of
Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special grabbed 6. 6 million viewers.
South Park held the record before and is now in second place.
Continue reading And the highest-rated show in Comedy Central history is ... - VIDEO
Posted Nov 11th 2008 1:13PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory
Wouldn't it be great if we didn't have to worry about TV ratings? That we could watch all of our favorite shows and not have to worry about them being watched by a lot of people, getting good ratings, and all that? And they'd be on for as long as we wanted?
Back to reality.
My Own Worst Enemy, the new Christian Slater spy show that I happen to like a lot,
got its lowest ratings yet last night. The number was down 22% from the previous week. I think that kinda translates into "not many people really care about this show." I don't think any show can succeed in NBC's Monday at 10 slot, at least not in the past three or four years, and
MOWE is no exception. It's up against CBS's
CSI: Miami and ABC's
Boston Legal, which gets a strong lead-in from
Dancing with the Stars and
Samantha Who? Continue reading Monday night: A tale of two ratings
Posted Oct 28th 2008 11:58AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
You never heard John McCain or Barack Obama talking about this on the campaign trail.
A lot of people were surprised that
The Sarah Connor Chronicles was
renewed. Not because it's a bad show or doesn't deserve to grow and all that, but just because it wasn't getting the best ratings (plus it's on FOX). Now
The Hollywood Reporter has a theory:
the bad economy is helping these borderline shows.
The theory is that because of the bad economy, combined with the writers strike earlier this year and advertising dollars are down across the board, networks are renewing shows that wouldn't ordinarily be renewed. Besides
The Sarah Connor Chronicles, shows like
Knight Rider have gotten orders for more episodes.
Continue reading Was Sarah Connor saved by the bad economy?
Posted Oct 22nd 2008 6:13PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free
Looks like the NBC black hole time slot of Monday at 10 p.m. is about to swallow another victim.
My Own Worst Enemy, the new Christian Slater spy series that I'm really enjoying,
continues to drop in the ratings. The premiere episode did only so-so, and this week's second episode saw a drop of 22%. Those aren't the kind of numbers that scream "second season renewal" or even "full season order." Seems more like "put on hiatus" or maybe a "let's put it on Friday nights instead!" thing.
Continue reading Slater and NBC have to deal with their own worst ratings
Posted Oct 8th 2008 12:07PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Heroes, Ratings, Chuck, Reality-Free
Ratings for NBC's Heroes are falling each and every week. The most recent episode was down 11% from the previous week's numbers.
I gotta tell ya, I don't get it. I'm really loving this season, but TV critics left and right have
given up on
the show. Sure, it's completely ridiculous and over the top, but if you remember the first season wasn't exactly a PBS documentary. The show has always been comic-book crazy, so I wonder if the writers strike had a bigger impact on the show than we all thought. Or maybe people have just gotten tired of the show, not because of any massive drop in quality but just because they're watching other things, not into sci-fi as much anymore, or don't want to follow another show with a continuing storyline and a lot of characters. I don't know, but I do know that the show is a ton of fun to watch, and even if there is a lot going on, it's a great ride.
It probably doesn't help that the ratings for the lead in show,
Chuck, are down 15%. Wow, if these two shows go away, what other hour-long shows will there be left to watch on NBC? I'm not sitting through
The Biggest Loser or
Knight Rider, sorry. I wonder how
My Own Worst Enemy will do in the Monday at 10 time slot when it premieres next week?
Posted Oct 1st 2008 2:09PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Reality-Free
Remember all of the interest over the summer about whether or not FOX was going to keep
The Sarah Connor Chronicles or cancel it after one season like they do with so many fan favorites? Well, how come you're not watching the show?
There are reports swirling around that
the network is going to cancel the Monday night show because of bad ratings, ratings that worse than FOX expected. The show is averaging a 4.1/6, which means it's down 34% from last year. Even the 18-49 demo loved by networks and advertisers aren't watching the show. When the
geeks science fiction enthusiasts aren't watching the show, you know you're in trouble.
I have to admit I've drifted away from the show. There are just too many shows to watch and towards the end of the first season I sort of decided to not want to follow this story anymore (same thing is happening with
Fringe). Anyone else there stop watching this show after the first season?
Posted Sep 10th 2008 3:20PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free
We've only been into the new season for a few days, but
some ratings numbers are already in. Looks like people love robots and prisons but might be getting sick of vampires.
On Monday, NBC won the night, with its lineup of
Deal Or No Deal (9.6 million viewers),
America's Toughest Jobs (6.5), and
Dateline (6.2), but FOX won in the all-important 18 to 49 demographic with its lineup of the
Sarah Connor Chronicles season premiere and a new episode of
Prison Break.
The Sarah Connor Chronicles grabbed 6.3 million viewers, while
Prison Break did even better, with 6.5 million. CBS beat NBC in the 18-49 demo with their lineup of comedy repeats. ABC was fourth and The CW was fifth.
Continue reading The new fall season: the ratings so far
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