Comments on: Nielsen Ratings Sunday, July 20: No One in High School Musical's Picture

By: Event Horizon

Event Horizon — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:52:32 +0000

HSM is the most overhyped nonsense to come along since last summers Pirate Master which hoped to get in on the Pirate craze created by Pirates of the Carribean (didnt help matters that the 3rd movie stunk) Hopefully they will overexpose HSM even more so it will burn out and vanish like a meteor burning up in the atmosphere.

The cast of HSM will end up like the cast of Saved By The Bell. Though that show went on for much longer than HSM will.

By: Event Horizon

Event Horizon — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:52:32 +0000

The cast of HSM will end up like the cast of Saved By The Bell. Though that show went on for much longer than HSM will.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:14:50 +0000

Sandy, you are likely right. They may have the lowest rated night of the summer for a network running 3 hours of new programming.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:54:00 +0000

ABC’s ratings are gonna be horrible tonight. No Bachelorette to soften the blow.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:21:00 +0000

Rob D/OntarioEmp: I’m too uniformed when it comes to HSM to speak with conviction here. — I’m probably not ashamed to admit that!

Rob, if your point is that nobody watched because the stakes are too low (tiny role vs. starring role) that makes perfect sense to me. But in light of that it seems dumb to have run it on the network — why not just run that on the Disney channel?

By: Rob D.

Rob D. — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:18:00 +0000

If they were going to do a HSM reality show to get in the movie, it should have been for a major role in the film. Instead, this is just to be in the final video or something- rather than finding a star. I’m not saying it would have made that much of a difference in the ratings, but it’s possible. At least with the Grease reality show, they were searching for the leads.

By: ontarioemperor

ontarioemperor — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:58:00 +0000

Perhaps this is second guessing, but a High School Musical-related show without the characters that we know and love looks like a concept that will have just as much success as Grease 2. (Saw this post via Robert’s FriendFeed, by the way.)

By: THE_Anonymous

THE_Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:43:37 +0000

I actually saw a bit of HSM last night — it was AWFUL! Not sure what exactly ABC was thinking here, but they took a pretty good concept and ruined it…what a drag.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:37:00 +0000

On the basis of nothing other than stellar past success of HSM 1 & 2, the total numbers for the reality series premiere surprise me. However, the 18-49, 18-34 or anything over 18 really don’t surprise me since it is a show targeted at High School age people. Given that, I think 25% of the audience being over 18 is probably well within expectations