Comments on: Early Ratings: America Still Loves Dancing, Criminals and Crime Scenes

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:51:34 +0000

julia, the comments thing was inadvertent as was the 3 million for LJ — both have been fixed.

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:49:27 +0000

Hmm. Comments seem to be turned off for the ratings post?

So is there any way that NBC can keep a show that barely premiered to 3 mil on the air? Even if they don’t have a lot of choices of what to replace it with? I mean, so far this week, three CW shows have already beaten Lipstick Jungle.

By: neps

neps — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:07:06 +0000

but Knight Rider was number 1 in Males 25-54 – at least they got that…

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:05:56 +0000

Criminal Minds was amazing last night!!! I am hooked on this show.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:57:44 +0000

half hour numbers for Knight Rider 7.192mm at 8-8:30, 7.408mm 8:30-9. It was 3rd among 18-49 year olds and fourth among 18-34 year olds for the hour

By: Buddy

Buddy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:51:31 +0000

Do Not Disturb is funny….talented cast.

By: Gusar

Gusar — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:50:57 +0000

Yeah, Knight Rider was so beyond awful, words don’t exist to express how. And this is coming from someone who genuinely liked the Pilot earlier this year. No matter what the overnight numbers will say, I’ve a strong feeling most of these people tuned in to check it out and won’t return next week. If they do, the world is officially insane. Is there a chance we’ll see half-hourly numbers for Knight Rider? Just for curiosity’s sake.

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:50:52 +0000

Just goes to show you that not every special that does well should be turned into a regular TV show!

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:47:08 +0000

indeed, Julia. Hopefully our day won’t be as bad as Knight Riders’ (apparently America’s Next Top Model beat it among 18-34 year olds — aggregate, not just women).

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:45:12 +0000

Uh oh. More internal server errors.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:42:51 +0000

The “Unique Breed” list would be interesting. Seems like Lipstick Jungle, Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone would top that list.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:39:41 +0000

Knight Rider–how long can a UPN quality show last on major network TV?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:38:06 +0000

Gary Unmarried was very funny. I’ll be watching from here on out. Hope CBS gives them a chance.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:36:26 +0000

Andrea, yes it did, Lipstick Jungle was just barely above the death zone.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/08/27/the-renewcancel-index-our-predictor-of-show-futures/4800

By: richard

richard — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:36:14 +0000

Emmy

american likes people singing, dancing , showing their talents , choosing one million dollars suitcase…

By: Outlander

Outlander — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:33:07 +0000

Fox aired Bush’s address both on its broadcast and FNC.

Knight Rider was so awful last night, it wasn’t funny. I mean, it was just…ugly bad. I can’t even come up with a fully coherent argument as to why it was bad, it was so bad. What bothers me is that quality shows like Terminator aren’t pulling absurdly better ratings than crap shows like Knight Rider. But, I’ve beaten the Terminator horse enough for one week.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:31:15 +0000

Didn’t LJ fall just on the right side of the bubble of the TV index?

By: Emmy

Emmy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:31:03 +0000

America still loves dancing??

didnt they get like a 14 on monday?? and now its down to 10.3.. in week One! over exposure!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:20:55 +0000

Gary Unmarried was wasted here. It really needs to be moved after 2 1/2.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:20:31 +0000

Julia, CBS’s comedies are the only thing that gets them younger skewed audiences. I don’t blame them for trying to expand them. As to how they went about it, we have the luxury of being Monday morning quarterbacks.

My guess is that Lipstick Jungle was one of the unique (to last season) breed of “keep it, because we’ve got nothing in the pipeline” shows that are on a very short leash.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:18:30 +0000

Julia, I can only speculate re: Lipstick Jungle, but my guesses are some combination of:

1. it might have held some promise with women in the demos
2. given the screwed up strike season they wanted to give it another chance
3. Ben Silverman thinks Brooke Shields is hot.

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:12:55 +0000

Trying to mesh a new comedy night with the standard procedurals was never going to work. With the state that most sit coms are in, I’m not sure why CBS decided they needed a new comedy night anyway.

Can someone explain to me why NBC picked up Lipstick Jungle? I mean, the ratings were bad last season, and the show itself is unwatchable.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:09:55 +0000

Richard, I’m not sure — if anyone knows, please chime in.

By: richard

richard — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:08:17 +0000

Did Fox air the Bush Address last night ?

thz

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:05:38 +0000

It does look that way…

By: Wopa

Wopa — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:03:05 +0000

The CBS sitcoms are DOA too.