Keeping in mind that these numbers are very preliminary, and subject to change, things don't look so rosy for our friends Lena Headey and Summer Glau or anyone else involved with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Things don't look so rosy for me either as I can't presently locate my wallet, so a 3.8/6 preliminary metered markets household rating/share for TSCC isn't making me feel any better!
Last week in the season premiere in the same preliminary metered market numbers the show pulled a 4.5/7 so that's about a 15% drop off in households from the premiere. Last week's premiere wound up with only around 6.3 million viewers, which was well off last year's averages, so to potentially drop another 15% is very disheartening. Prison Break fans the news isn't much better, it scored a 3.9/6 in the metered markets.
CBS looks to have won the night from a household rating perspective with its lineup of comedy reruns and a repeat CSI: Miami. NBC was next with what appears to be a decent performance from Deal or No Deal (5.9/9) but the soon heading to Fridays America's Toughest Jobs looks to be on pace for a series low with a 3.0/5 at 9pm.
Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill with a 2.6/4 and 2.7/4 were on par with last week when they scored a 2.7/4 and a 2.7/4 respectively in the preliminary metered markets.
It's hard for me to believe that Gossip Girl and NBC's Chuck, which will go head-to-head with Gossip Girl soon are from the same person - Josh Schwartz. Last night, before realizing I'd lost my wallet I watched the first three episodes of Chuck and enjoyed them very, very much. It seems like Chuck and Burn Notice would run well together, either on NBC or USA....
Update: Start panicking: TSCC pulled a 3.6/6 HH Rating/share and 5.491 million viewers a 2.0/5 in the 18-49 and a 1.9/6 among 18-34 year olds. Gossip Girl had one of its better (perhaps best) efforts with 3.726 million, edging out One Tree Hill's 3.355 million, but these shows are all about women 18-34. Pretty sure we'll see another "CW Wins Another Monday Night Among 18-34 Year Old Women" style release...
Bill will have the full nights details based on the more updated fast affiliate ratings up on the site sometime soon. Note: Full details are now available here.
Let’s not panic until we get the full numbers. Then, we’ll panic. I thought last night’s episode suffered a bit… And the show’s intro (with all the elaborate explanations and the goofy monotone voiceover) is really awful.
But, if this show is not meant to be, at least I will have 11 more episodes to enjoy — and hopefully at least 6 of them will feature Summer Glau in miniskirts and leopard print . . .
Ouch! Somehow I don’t even want to know the fast affiliate numbers. It’ll be painful. Very.
I can’t believe Chuck is going head-to-head with Gossip Girl too! I adore both shows and trust me, if you loved the first three episodes of Chuck, you’re gonna love the later episodes even more! Thank god I’m not in the United States, or I won’t be able to watch either show peacefully!
While the Chuck/Burn Notice pairing seems okay, I very much prefer the Chuck/Heroes pairing. I mean, how many spy dramas can you handle in one night? Besides, like Heroes, Chuck has a very mainstream movie feel to it (what not with McG & Josh Schwartz behind it) while Burn Notice has more of a cult-ish vibe, so I’m not too confident if both shows would work well on the same network.
Hope you find your wallet!
Hope you find that wallet!
Th reruns of the funny shows did pretty good this year, good.
The numbers may not be as bad as we think, several stations numbers where not counted in this>> http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/community/programming-insider/newsletters/e3ie3dba86ef5894636b9a0e4487c165e15
(Sorry i don’t know if we’re allowed to post other sites)
Outlander, we can panick now. Gusar, turn away: 5.491 million and a 2.0/5 in the demo. SG GG Fan, I think GG may have had record numbers 3.726 million. And fear not, I have a DVR and will likely record both Chuck and TSCC and watch at my convenience. SG/GRD thanks for the well wishes about my wallet. I’m not optimistic…
Paul, while that may be the case with the metered market data, I don’t think it’s the case with the fast affiliate numbers which were unfortunately pretty dismal for TSCC. But even if it is the case with those results too, once those markets get counted I doubt it will change things significantly.
P.S. linking to other sites is not only allowed, it’s encouraged. Thanks!
Ok, I’m from the UK so i didn’t know if those markets would bring a good enough audience ro put them on par with last week. CW is doing good with it’s combination of Gossip Girl & One Tree Hill, even after six years One Tree Hill is still pulling a good amount of viewers for a teen drama:D
I said it would be painful. It is. Guess that means no additional 9 episodes and no Season 3.
Burn Notice would be great on NBC or CBS it’s a pretty good show and beautifully directed and acted and of course the eye candy.
I know this sounds utterly prepostrous but i think Gossip Girl may be denting prison breaks numbers, last year parents where going mad about their children watching it, now Gossip Girl competing & pulling better numbers i think this could be it. It sounds stupid but could be true. I think females who where die-hard prison break fans may have switched over because of friends talking about the fashion etc.
Paul, but Gossip Girl is on at 8pm and Prison Break on at 9pm…
Please maybe Prison Break is doing bad because it clearly SUCKS!!!It has nothing to do with Gossip Girl.
BTW prison break had 5.887 million and a 2.5/6 in the 18-49 and a 2.4/6 among 18-34 year olds, which did trail OTH 2.5/6 among 18-34 (gossip girl had a 2.8/8 among 18-34 year olds and even managed a 2.0 among 18-49 year olds!)
I call shannanigans!
Everyone I know watched TSCC!
And I know a lot of people….
damn those meters and the Nielsen families!!!!
Sorry, i didn’t know they where different times, CW must be pleased and Dawn Ostroff can give a sigh of relief. At least prison break isn’t too bad, it built by 25% in 18-49 year olds out of TSCC.
As soon as FOX has a new show to air, you can kiss TSCC goodbye. CBS wouldn’t be inclined to keep a show with only a 2.0, and FOX’s biggest strength is the demo.
I’ll be interested to see how other shows are doing in the same time slot. Prison Break has had shady ratings for a while, gets eviscerated by the critics, yet remains on the air. All that said, though, I fear the end is nigh.
But the silver lining in this cloud is that we’ll probably see more of Summer Glau. She did really well in her role and in some respects, stole the show. She’s probably going to be a genre actress, but she should get good genre roles. (I’m reminded of ABC’s “The Middleman” in that respect. The show was a giant ratings turkey, but ABC fell in love with Natalie Morales and all the entertainment mags’ predictions are that she’ll be in a major ABC production soon.)
Oh man – FOX needs to move Sarah to Sunday Nights…NOW!…anyways…I thought last night’s episode was great…I can’t understand why this is not doing better???
Most of my friends watch this…who’s houses are thaey rating anyway??!!…Deal or No Deal is now on 5 days a week…don’t people get enough of that already??Game shows and “pretend reality” shows are tired and are over done…give us stories! FOX beter not leave this open-ended other than a possible link to next years movie……MAYBE the TERMINATORS are destined to win!?