Soon, the election will be over and NBC will come crashing back to reality. But for now, it's still whooping it up! Last night's Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash pulled great numbers for NBC in the early metered markets between 9pm-11p with a 10.1/15 (household rating/share). By comparison the 200th episode of Deal or No Deal did a 4.6/7.
I'm holding off on most opinions about the night until I see the full fast affiliates and the 18-49 demographic data. Our pal Marc Berman is sticking with his boilerplate text to report on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Last night:
The Sarah Connor Chronicles (#4: 3.4/ 5) and tired Prison Break (#4: 3.5/ 5) dipped by an average of 28 percent from the year-ago line-up of two episodes of Prison Break. Maybe Fox should rethink that full season episode order for Sarah Connor.
Two weeks ago (the last time TSCC aired):
Fox has also taken a noticeable hit on Monday with is combination of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (#4: 3.4/ 5), which the network may want to consider renewing for the full season...
My personal belief now, as last year, is that the pot was sweetened for Fox, somehow, someway to keep the show on the air this year as a promo for the forthcoming Terminator movie in May. I know some of you disagree with this, but based on the numbers, it's the best theory I have.
It's good news either way because we're getting more episodes than the numbers themselves actually seem to justify. My prediction: barring a remarkable improvement in the numbers, there will be no season three. We'll have to enjoy it while it lasts. We'll see what the viewer numbers and demo numbers look like in a bit, but it looks like not having to compete with Chuck didn't improve things at all for TSCC based on the early numbers.
We'll have the viewer and demo numbers up hopefully by 12:30pm EST, so check back. You can read the full metered market report on Berman's site
Metered Market Overnight Ratings: This is normally the first available ratings information, and is based on the electronic measurement service that Nielsen provides in 56 of the nation's largest markets. In each market a sample of homes is selected to represent that individual market. Often, networks or syndicators provide metered market information as an early indicator of a program's performance. In aggregate, the 56 metered markets represent 79,890,610 homes, or 70% of all U.S. TV households. Preliminary metered market data are available as early as 8:00AM (ET). Final metered market information, reflecting line-up changes, pre-emptions and runovers, are normally available by 3:30PM (ET).
I had a feeling that Terminator numbers will be low. Not that much discussion about the episode on various forums. The show not airing weekly because of baseball certainly didn’t help. Shame, because it was a great episode. Two words: leather jacket
The numbers for Sarah Connor are going to say roughly the same until they get a new time slot. And, not having to compete aganist Chuck dosen’t really mean anything. Most Chuck fans don’t watch Terminator. It’s having to compete aganist Monday Night Football that is the real killer for Sarah Connor.
The ONLY reason TSCC will remain is because of T4. If there was no T4, it would have been axed after a few finale episodes to wrap the series up. Even though it got a full season. It wont see a 3rd. I guess ratings could go up, but that would be shocker if they did.
Though I still watch it, Im not in love with it. When it ends I will just shrug my shoulders and move on. I think a better series idea would be to focus on the resistance efforts against SKYNET as a continuation of T4 (assuming its successful enough) in the future and dump this whole alternate reality story line. But keep Summer, course.
Damn. I was hoping for better numbers for TSCC. It’s a shame because last nights episode was great.
TSCC’s ratings is getting closer to Gossip Girl ones (2.4/4)
xD
Why do people keep bringing up Monday Night Football? Most sports junkies that watch every MNF game wouldnt watch TSCC anyway. Even if it was the home team, the first quarter doesnt usually end until after 9PM and TSCC is over by then. The best part of any game is the 2nd half – provided its not a blow out. Shows need to stand on their own. I remember Jericho fans blaming American Idol for its poor performance in early 2007. But NCIS has done great when it goes up against Idol. No matter where you put a show and it performs poorly, people will say “Its on too early”, “Up against strong competition”, “Its on too late”, “Its on the wrong day”, “Its on when most people walk there dogs…” I think TSCC has lost most of its original fan base due to the content itself. Its not easy to follow with so many terminators and resistance fighters from the future popping out of the woodwork like roaches. Also TSCC makes SKYNET look pretty stupid. After all, why didnt they just send an army of Terminators back to 1982 and kill Sarah Conner before Reese ever arrived and just build SKYNET themselves? Or better yet back to the 1980s and replace Bill Gates with a T-X model? Oh wait, maybe they already have!
what is wrong with u americans? why arent u watching Sarah Connor?? its a great show prob the best on right now.
I’m a casual watcher of TSCC as well. If it goes, I’ll move on to something else without much difficulty. It’s a quality show, but something just doesn’t feel right about it. Maybe it’s because the movies have always been “chase” movies – happening in a very short period of time with problems and solutions that must come and go quickly before anyone can catch his breath. Then comes the series where there are terminators of the week and relative ease of time travel. As for last night, I think they softened Sarah too much. The bowling alley scene drove me nuts because of that.
Another great SARAH CONNOR episode…I know with baseball interfering every other week – it’s messing up viewers “viewing habits”- Although some of it could be a lack of “intelagence” —–I saw one postby a guy; wanting to know why Sarah didn’t air 3 weeks ago – One SHOULD know by turning on the TV and SEEING a PLAYOFF GAME in a major sporting event…!!??!!??
Although…I think SKYNET is behind making people watch “CIRCUS WITH THE (PRETEND) STARS” that’s how SKYNET will defeat SARAH CONNOR…
Great episode – and consistant great acting and stories…the best thing on since “24″……PERIOD!!!
Gusar -not much talk about SARAH because it was on ONCE in a three week period.
terminator gets better all the time but rating keep going down if u have giving up on the show your missing out this is best show on tv too bad everyone likes non thinking crap
I am just hoping scifi picks up terminator after this season ends. Its a great show and the numbers it pulls now would make it a huge hit on scifi.
I think there are some legit arguments for shows being in the wrong time slots (generally speaking). When you put shows that would have overlapping audiences, I can see where numbers for one would suffer due to the presense of the other. For example, taking away the friday trait of being a wasteland for a moment, I thought that Life and Numb3rs were shows that overlapped and probably hurt each others’ numbers a bit (not to say that Life will be a hit or anything, but I do feel that Numb3rs’s surge last week was helped by the fact that Life wasn’t there). I think they’ll be some interesting competition between CSI:NY and L&O as well – or if they put House against Grey’s, any CSI against any L&O, etc. I do agree a lot of shows that underperform have little to do with the “excuses” you mentioned. However, I wouldn’t agree that the argument doesn’t apply at all in some cases, especially with a CSI involved – since it pulls viewers of every kind.
To that end, we all knew MOWE was screwed when we saw the late start date and having to go up against Miami after it’s already about 4 episodes deep then.
I’m a sports junkie and I love this show. I don’t get to watch MNF or TSCC because I work nights anyways. Still I haven’t missed an episode since the show came out. This year I forked over $40 for a season pass when I found out 22 episodes were airing (even though I can watch for free online, I can watch it anywhere with my ipod and it’s completely commercial free). It should have been scheduled for Wednesdays.