Comments on: Thursday, September 25: A Paler Shade of Grey's Boosts ABC

By: stevolution9

stevolution9 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:01:28 +0000

Pfft, Supernatural is much better than My Name is Earl, as well as Grey’s Anatomy.

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:25:44 +0000

UnderCoverGuy, Right or wrong, the advertisers look primarily at the demo numbers. Overall viewers do matter, but viewers in those demo brackets matter more.

By: UnderCoverGuy

UnderCoverGuy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:14:34 +0000

Why only put up that age bracket? Does the rest of America count?

By: jay turney

jay turney — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:43:26 +0000

The delayed season and poor overall network quality has caused these scheduling changes to catch me off guard. Surely Grey’s will be against CSI again at nine central? Survivor just premiers on Thursday, or up against Betty at eight central? Who cares. New CSI’s will edge out Grey’s, I believe, consistently. 18-49 to Grey’s, more than likely. Scrubs I guess is off NBC, Earl down around 30%, Office and 30 Rock probably pulled down as well. ( Office has weakened quality-wise since year one, and is a poor leadin for 30 Rock. ) So NBC’s no-laugh-track comedies will be hard-pressed to beatthe two long-running hits on ABC and NBC in any category, except maybe 18-34.

By: Vech

Vech — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:13:56 +0000

Grey’s rock solid against the ER, Sruvivor and the office premieres…Good for Grey’s

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:48:54 +0000

Bigger drop off than I expected for Supernatural but those numbers are still better than almost every episode of last season, so hopefully they hold up.

CSI premieres next week though, I think, so that can’t be good.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:15:30 +0000

yo… the truth hurts… your point about jerry o connell is lame. if the same logic was applied to jon cryer… loser sitcom after next… then cbs wouldn’t have put him in 2 and 1/2 men. i’m not a jerry fan but i do know it takes the right project, the right actor, the right timing, the right time slot, the right audience… it’s amazing anything does well.

By: Rhuw Morgan

Rhuw Morgan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:53:57 +0000

I’m pleasently surprised that Smallville and Supernatural held up, and while the numbers were down for Supernatural I’m pretty sure (if wikipedia is to be believed) it is still the second highest total audience figures the show has had since it moved to The CW, and the highest rated episode against a first run Grey’s Anatomy & Office. My Name is Earl’s numbers though were a less pleasent surprise, I too really enjoyed last nights episodes after the medicore stories of last year. Hopefully people may come back to it over the next couple of weeks.

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:37:32 +0000

While edit is nice, I’m not a fan of Disqus. The load time for comments on any blog that uses Disqus goes up by a lot. So I prefer looking like an uneducated idiot at times than having edit.

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:37:23 +0000

Robert and Bill, I do understand and I’m not really complaining. I just have that thought when I realize that my post was oddly worded or something was misspelled. You guys do a great job with the site and the remodel looks great. I’m OK loosing some functions even if I occassionally miss them.

By: Outlander

Outlander — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:29:11 +0000

TueTruthHurts –

I agree. Fox hasn’t been doing as good a job these days. I think 24 is going to be a catastrophe this year. It’s a show that appeals to Republicans and they cast Janeane Garofalo as the President?? Dollhouse just looks bad. Those comedies were atrocious. Prison Break is bad. And they took my favorite show this fall and fed it to the ratings wolves.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:20:59 +0000

Nice to see Betty almost getting 10 million… It will probably sink to 8.5-9 million next week. I’m as surprised as everybody else that the Grey’s premiere did better than the finale. I’m guessing it will sink to 15-16 million when CSI starts up again.

By: TheTruthHurts

TheTruthHurts — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:16:29 +0000

Fox President Kevin Reilly is doing a bang up job just like he did at NBC. Amazing how these guys “fail upward”. Reilly led NBC to a consistent 4th place finish and he ain’t doin’ any better over at FOX…where do they recruit these network president’s from..the Bush/Cheney White House?

Please Mr. Reilly..next season give me another sitcom with Jerry O’Connell…last year it was ABC’s Carpoolers and now Fox’s Do Not Disturb.

As for NBC’s Ben Silverman…”Knightrider” bombed this week? Gee I’m shocked..next time you re-make a show..how ’bout “Leave It To Beaver”.

Since most Americans are broke and have to stay home…overall ratings should be way up….problem is look at the new garbage they gave us. And there’s more to come…

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:13:52 +0000

Holly, WordPress recently purchased IntenseDebate a competitor of Disqus (who created our previous comment system that allowed edits).

I would expect many changes to the WordPress comment system in the future, although what and when we don’t know.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:00:04 +0000

Holly, I hear you. Unfortunately there are always trade offs — it made sense for us to revert back to the built in WordPress comments, but there are downsides like the one you mention. For now there is no way anyone but Bill and I can edit comments. I’d hoped that there was some path by which we could register accounts and limit access — which there is, but unfortunately that path *also* doesn’t allow you to edit comments. :-/

By: multipleverses.com » Blog Archive » Supernatural- 4.02 review, ratings update, 4.03 HQ trailer

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:49:23 +0000

[...] up against competition from the return of Grey’s Anatomy and My Name is Earl. According to TVByTheNumbers Supernatural held at 3.245 Million viewers and a 1.3 share in viewers 18-49 and 1.2 share in the [...]

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:44:38 +0000

I miss the edit function…

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:43:54 +0000

Julia,
Grey’s will still beat CSI in the demo, but Grey’s will probably take a hit when it is competing against a new episode of CSI. Overall, CSI will win in viewers and possibly close the gap a bit more in the demo. Of course, that depends on whether Grey’s continues the drop it was seeing last year and how the CSI audience reacts to loosing Warrick and Grissom.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:19:04 +0000

I thought the season premiere of My Name is Earl was very funny last night especially the second one with Earl’s mom cheating on his dad with a guy named Clark Clark that’s hilarious to me kinda sucks that the ratings were down compared to last season’s premiere but I think that has to do with the way season 3 of Earl went which most fans including myself agree wasn’t one of their better seasons which is why there was much hype over Earl going back to his list this season but they were both very funny episodes last night and I hope the ratings go back to normal as far as My Name is Earl goes……..I also watched Smallville and I like how Clark is slowly moving towards becoming Superman I mean now he is working at the Daily Planet soon he will be wearing his glasses I have a feeling Smallville will end with Clark in his Superman costume but that’s just a guess

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:41:38 +0000

Supernatural held up pretty well considering the competition. Last night’s episode was great. I love the direction the show is taking.

By: TheTvStop » Thursday September 25th, 2008 - TV Ratings

TheTvStop » Thursday September 25th, 2008 - TV Ratings — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:14:35 +0000

[...] to TVbytheNumbers for the [...]

By: JW

JW — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:43:37 +0000

I blame St. Louis’s CW11. They decided to change the times to air the primetime shows an hour later than every one else. The news comes on at 7PM now, who wants to watch the news when My Name Is Earl or Survivor is on? I was torn between Smallville and Grey’s Anatomy. I am sure some of the other nights, possibly the shows for the girls are all torn between a CW show and some other network. I forgot all about watching ER and CSI:, or I would have been flip flopping between three shows last night.

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:40:44 +0000

Jackson, PD premieres on Wednesday. I’m preparing to mourn on Thursday. :(:(

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:38:04 +0000

Not thinking while typing. They beat CSI last season. And I was asking if that will be different this season not week.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:38:01 +0000

Does anyone know when pushing daisies season premeire is?

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:37:10 +0000

Rick, Grey’s beat CSI nearly every week in the demo, I believe. Are you saying that’s going to be different this week?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:35:16 +0000

Rick, if my program guide is correct, Greys is bumped next week by VP debates

By: Rick G

Rick G — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:33:04 +0000

Enjoy this week and next week “Grey”- – CSI returns Oct 9th!

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:20:33 +0000

It’s great having those 18-34 numbers. I did not realize that Survivor skews so old now!

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:17:55 +0000

Robert, normally I would agree about the longer show meaning less viewers, but in Grey’s case at least, they actually gained viewers in their second hour. I don’t know how many people just didn’t turn on their TVs at all because they knew it was going to be a long episode, but there doesn’t seem to be any hour to hour erosion, though it would be interesting to see the half hours.

By: Foo Man Chu

Foo Man Chu — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:11:05 +0000

ER ending none too soon. It really should have ended when Dr. Carter went off to Africa. They should end it by running the entire series in reverse ending with the opening scene from Season 1, Episode 1 in last hour; back when the show was excellent. Either that or have a snowstorm at the end where it turns out the who series took place inside a snow globe of an autistic child who puts it on a shelf next to his St. Elsewhere snow globe. Just then his dad comes in and gives him a Greys Anatomy snow globe.

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:08:49 +0000

I wonder if perhaps people were turned off by the last 5 minutes of Supernatural. “God has work for you, Dean.” It was a terrible, terrible ending. I’m not at all on board with what they’re doing to the show!

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:02:20 +0000

My program guide seems REALLY horked for next Thursday in general due to Vice Presidential debate, but I show a new Hole in the Wall from 8pm-9pm. (where “reality show vixens from ‘Flavor of Love’ compete against women from ‘Rock of Love’).

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:51:19 +0000

Holly, no announcement I have seen by Fox about Thursdays. TVGuide.com still had Hole in the Wall scheduled for last night, I only saw the 2 Kitchen Nightmares when the ratings were out this AM. Hole in the Wall could be another stealth cancel.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:45:35 +0000

I agree (at least in the case of NBC and ABC, not sure about CBS) that they have nothing to put on that would do as well, the question I have is whether the shorter premieres would perform better for the shorter duration.

Sure, the nets get an extra hour or half hour on the night that they couldn’t have done better with, but they lose that hour in another week. If there’s no impact to the two hour average by putting it all on one night versus breaking it up over two, it would be six of one half a dozen of the other. We know Grey’s did better than it’s two hour finale in May, but we know Greys and Survivor did worse than their one hour premieres a year ago. There is no way to know whether the expansion of time had any impact on the attrition…so I wonder

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:35:41 +0000

Re: Super sized premieres.

I think they seem to be working out for most of the nets. There is nothing that ABC could have put at 10pm that would have netted over 18 mil. And, unfortunately, nothing NBC could have put at 9:30 that would have netted over 9 mil. (Please, world, WATCH 30 ROCK!) Last season, I thought the one hour Office episodes were horrible quality wise (like I said, I haven’t watched the premiere to be able to comment on this one), but ratings wise, it makes sense to draw the better ratings out as long as you can.

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:21:37 +0000

GA did better than I expected, but it will likely start falling again once CSI starts.

What is Fox’s plan for Thursdays? Is it just KN or are they bringing back Hole in the Wall or some other show?

Survivor is down again this year. After 20 seasons, that’s not surprising, but CBS really needs to find a new hit reality show. Survivor is nearly played out and Amazing Race is not going to be pulling in 15-20 million viewers.

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:10:50 +0000

I have yet to watch The Office (if Hulu got it up, I’ll watch it tonight), so last night was an It’s Always Sunny night for me. I watched the Dexter premiere weeks ago already, and am anxiously awaiting the second episode.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:45:32 +0000

NBC didnt do as bad as i thought it would..

ABC did well, i really hope that betty can stay on 9m! CBS was ok.

CW did really well!!

just incase anyone wanted to know.. here are the ratings for the main American shows that were on UKTV?

FRI
9:00pm Ugly betty 1.6m (lowest ever rating)

MON
9.00pm America’s Next Top Model – 0.3m (2%) (Season 9 premier)
10.00pm Lipstick Jungle – 0.2m (1%) (Premier)

TUE
9.00pm Hell’s Kitchen USA – 0.5m (3%)
9:00pm CSI: Miami 2.4m (11.3%)

WED
Axe Men 1.3m (5.8%)
Desperate Housewives 1.75m (10.8%) (lowest ever rating)
Medium 1.5m (13.8%)

THU
20:30 – Friends – 564,000 (2.30%) [+1: 186,000] (best ever rating)
21:00 – Ugly Betty – 424,000 (2.30%) [+1: 121,000] (first look)
21:00 – Bones – 584,000 (3.5%)

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:38:20 +0000

I could say I was inspired by Jewel, but in fact I found that while Googling the phrase.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:34:18 +0000

Wow, you used a picture from the actual episode. I confess (blasphemy, I know) to watching a few minutes of Grey’s before my eyes glazed over and I moved on to this Sunday’s premieres of Dexter and Californication (saving Supernatural for later).

I am a little surprised Grey’s improved over its season finale (in viewers and in the demo) it will be interesting to see what kind of a bite a new CSI will put on those numbers. Also I wonder if the trend of super sized premieres and finales is really a great idea (two hours for Grey’s and Survivor, one hour for the Office, etc).

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:34:16 +0000

You’re having too much fun with your puns today.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:32:45 +0000

Wopa, I meant “no equal”, but I agree my word choice wasn’t great. I will edit

By: Wopa

Wopa — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:27:56 +0000

No competition for Greys? what about The Office?

By: Johnny Shoe

Johnny Shoe — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:26:43 +0000

FOX’s Kitchen Nightmares were both new…no hole in the wall this week…lol.