Comments on: ALCS Game 7 More Watched than MNF, Future President and SpongeBob

By: KS Rose

KS Rose — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:26:46 +0000

Thanks Robert. One of your lovely readers usually has the Trueblood 18-49 and household data for me. yaay for the internet. hehe

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:40:56 +0000

Cool, it is surprising to see how the yellow one racks up the cable viewers, but it has been the case for at least the year we’ve been running the site.

By: Cool

Cool — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:19:35 +0000

I’m truly shocked with Spongebob.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:55:50 +0000

KS — while the data is surely available, it’s not yet available via the method Nielsen gives us access to it. I’m sure we’ll have it tomorrow morning, but our info (top 40 shows) won’t include True Blood if it was only 2.07 million anyway. We never get 18-49 data for cable shows anyway, but I suspect you’re right that it’s not very important for pay channels (unless they somehow use it to forecast DVD sales).

By: KS Rose

KS Rose — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:40:19 +0000

Hey where is this weeks info? Not to be ungrateful but I’m chewing on my keyboard to find out how True Blood did. I read in Variety that it had 2.07 million viewers but no household or 18-49 data. (not that I think pay services care about demographics all that much unless it’s a rare demographic that it can hope will cross over to it’s other shows)

Thanks to anyone that can give me the Oct 26 info…

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:47:54 +0000

Interested in how the Sci-Fi show ‘Sanctuary’ is doing. Does anybody have any data available?

Thanks

By: Johnthemon

Johnthemon — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:02:22 +0000

thanks for confirming that Julia.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:53:27 +0000

Yi, apparently not good enough to make it into the cable top 40, so I don’t know.

By: Yi

Yi — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:40:29 +0000

How were the ratings for the “The Steve Harvey Show” episode that aired on TBS due to the ALCS snafu?

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:51:20 +0000

http://epguides.com/SpongeBobSquarePants/

Apparently there are only 125 episodes that have aired, and only one (a special) that aired in October.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:36:42 +0000

Jon, I honestly have no idea. While we get that level of detail for the broadcast shows (whether they are repeats or not), we do not get such information for cable shows. Over the next 13 days my program guide lists 93 (yes, ninety-three!) airings of SpongeBob, I’d assume all but a couple are reruns, but again I have no idea.

By: Johnthemon

Johnthemon — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:18:14 +0000

@PapaBeargotPunked

Shut Up.

Question: How many of the Spongebob episodes are repeats and how many are first-run?

By: PapaBeargotPunked

PapaBeargotPunked — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:11:42 +0000

Numbers look fudged to me. Where is RealTime with Bill Maher and Countdown with Keith Olbermann and not to forget Rachel Maddow show on this list. More like 1st 2nd and 3rd spot look distorted. Gorman and Seidman have hidden Faux News agenda.

The accurate list should read:
1.) Countdown Monday
2.) Countdown Tuesday
3.) Countdown Wednesday
4.) Countdown Thursday
5.) Countdown Friday
6.) RealTime with Bill Maher
7.) Rachel Maddow Show Monday
8.) Rachel Maddow Show Tuesday
9.) Rachel Maddow Show Wednesday
10.) Rachel Maddow Show Thursday
11.) Rachel Maddow Show Friday
12.) Repeat Broadcast Countdown Monday
13.) Repeat Broadcast Countdown Tuesday
14.) Repeat Broadcast Countdown Wednesday
15.) Repeat Broadcast Countdown Thursday
16.) Repeat Broadcast Countdown Friday
17.) Repeat Broadcast Rachel Maddow Show Monday
18.) Repeat Broadcast Rachel Maddow Show Tuesday
19.) Repeat Broadcast Rachel Maddow Show Wednesday
20.) Repeat Broadcast Rachel Maddow Show Thursday

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:17:52 +0000

haha. that’s a smackdown.

May the ~~force~~ porous be with you.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:14:54 +0000

My hoped for Yoda vs. SpongeBob showdown was *really* wishful thinking.

This week:
16 episodes of SpongeBob in the cable top 40 with viewership of 3.496 million or more

Star Wars: The Clone Wars not in the top 40.

Forget the Dark Side, SpongeBob is a master of the Yellow Side of the Force!

By: entertainmenttodayandbeyond

entertainmenttodayandbeyond — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:19:43 +0000

I think Dexter is somewhat different in terms of a straight foward narratative this season than the last two, but its still a terrific piece of Television. Sunday’s episode were he proposes to Rita was a great hr of TV. True Blood is a really interesting show that keeps me coming back week after week, but it soley relies on it’s quirky characters like Twin Peaks did years ago. There’s no real storyline to propel it forward, at least so far! Still there’s something about it that I enjoy! Id give it a 6.5 out of 10.

CHUCK

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:24:58 +0000

Noah, since the age demos are all about advertising, I wouldn’t think the paid cable networks would value them any more than any other viewer group. A paying subscriber is a paying subscriber, regardless of age.

By: Noah

Noah — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:08:16 +0000

Does demo performance matter much for networks like Showtime and HBO?

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:15:46 +0000

Robert Seidman wrote:

should it stay or should it go, Julia? I was just playing around with it because “it was there”

I like the idea, but the execution doesn’t quite work the way it should, I think. The tag is blockquote, but it doesn’t actually block the quote. If it did, I would keep it. I’m not sure why it’s not working right, though.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:47:04 +0000

should it stay or should it go, Julia? I was just playing around with it because “it was there”

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:13:32 +0000

@ Julia:
And I don’t think it works quite as nicely as it should. There’s not much of an indicator that the quote has finished and the new comment has begun.

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:12:47 +0000

Robert Seidman wrote:

Shawn, I can never be shocked w/HBO beating Showtime since it is in roughly 50% more homes, but I wouldn’t have predicted that True Blood would do so much better than Dexter. I agree Dexter isn’t nearly as good this year, but I think it was amazing that they got two great season (at least IMO) out of the premise and am not surprised that it’s harder to do three years in a row. I’m more surprised True Blood did noticeably better than Entourage.

I still haven’t seen the latest episode of Dexter, but I have to agree about what I’ve seen so far. The premiere actually made me think it was really going to be able to pull off another amazing season, but the whole Miguel thing is not playing out very well.

(But mostly I just wanted to try out this new quote and reply thing!)

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:37:08 +0000

Shawn, I can never be shocked w/HBO beating Showtime since it is in roughly 50% more homes, but I wouldn’t have predicted that True Blood would do so much better than Dexter. I agree Dexter isn’t nearly as good this year, but I think it was amazing that they got two great season (at least IMO) out of the premise and am not surprised that it’s harder to do three years in a row. I’m more surprised True Blood did noticeably better than Entourage.

By: shawn

shawn — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:25:43 +0000

Rob, are you shocked True Blood is beating Dexter so bad in the ratings? I thought with it being on CBS it would do better this year. It seems like Dexter is missing some bite this year…the storyline is not as good as the past 2 years.

By: Kasandra

Kasandra — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:02:42 +0000

Thanks so much! It’s getting better and better viewership

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:39:42 +0000

thanks Drake, I added it to the post — and we hear Mad Men had 1.4 million viewers on Sunday.

And wow, True Blood is stomping Dexter and even beating Entourage.

By: Drake

Drake — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:22:21 +0000

Sunday Ratings:

MAD MEN (HH:1.0/2; A18-49:0.5/1)
TRUE BLOOD (HH:1.2/2; A18-49:1.1/3; V:2,098,000)
ENTOURAGE (HH:1.0/2; A18-49:0.9/2; V:1,586,000)
LITTLE BRITAIN USA (HH:0.3/1; A18-49:0.3/1; V:447,000)
DEXTER (HH:0.5/1; A18-49:0.3/1; V:863,000)
CALIFORNICATION (HH:0.3/1; A18-49:0.2/0; V:469,000)

Source:
http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/63310451/m/113101861/p/12

By: Kasandra

Kasandra — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:43:42 +0000

Again I’m here hat in hand asking for the True Blood numbers PLEASE You guys are ever so helpful!

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:10:58 +0000

Rod, tom, we see only the top 40 cable shows each week, and those were not among them. We may run across those numbers in a press release. If so, I will post them.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:41:50 +0000

Sorry, I meant last Monday!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:20:15 +0000

I’m glad that the SpongeBob special of last friday got so many viewers!

By: tom

tom — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:07:59 +0000

any idea how the futurama movie did on sunday? sucks it ended up against game 7.

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:13:49 +0000

How are the ratings for “World’s Toughest Fixes” on National Geographic?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:24:55 +0000

I don’t think it’s a shame where the numbers shake out. I wish we had access to more cable information so we could regularly provide more comprehensive cable show information, but unfortunately we don’t.

Fortunately (for me and for you) this kind of political coverage is a once every four year proposition. As for sports, it’s seasonal and cyclical, but I don’t think it’s going away. As for SpongeBob, yellow and porous is he…

By: PA

PA — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:14:40 +0000

I’m sick of seeing these things cluttered up with sports, politics, and Spongebob. It’s a shame, really.