Comments on: TV Zombie 'According To Jim' Lives On Despite Dreadful Ratings

By: KING SHP

KING SHP — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:42:22 +0000

Please don’t cancel CHUCK!!It is the best tv show I have seen in a while,and I see there are a lot of people who don’t want the show to be cancelled,so keep on making the new episodes of chuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: SaintDragon

SaintDragon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:39:14 +0000

Chuck has to stay on!!!
My most fav show of all

By: charmichael

charmichael — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:19:42 +0000

Chuck is the best show ever, Please just renew CHUCK…
pleaasssseeeee

By: Jeppe

Jeppe — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:31:01 +0000

Chuck is an awesome show,I love it. Chuck must go on,please!

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:22:39 +0000

Pleasssssssssssse………renew Chuck !

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:22:37 +0000

Chuck is driving me crazy, please, CHUCK buddy, hold on.

BEST SHOW ever.

By: Natalia

Natalia — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:43:21 +0000

Noo! TSCC can’t be canceled T_T

By: Casey is awesome

Casey is awesome — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:49:05 +0000

If they cancel Chuck I will never watch another NBC show again, not even Medium or The Office. Chuck is the perfect blend of genres and it *never* disappoints–do you know how rare that is? Every show has an off episode, but for Chuck pretty much every storyline delivers. Every character is actually interesting and fun to watch. You can never decide who should have more screen time because everybody should, they’re all great! Especially Sarah, who is one of the most dynamic, awesome female characters on TV ever!

Please PLEASE let NBC renew Chuck!!

By: Nerd Herd

Nerd Herd — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:22:10 +0000

Chuck has to stay. It is the single, one good show on NBC. I think all the others are… to be honest, quite idiotic (aside from The Office).

If Chuck is canceled, people will be angry… they will riot… and the world… becomes a much more dangerous place…

Seriously, if Chuck is canceled….. >.<
I will be prodigiously angry and boycott NBC for throwing away such a fantastic show. I mean, it has action, adventure, mystery, suspense, romance, love, betrayal… EVERYTHING a good sitcom needs.
Please don’t cancel Chuck. T-T

By: ...

... — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:06:47 +0000

Life on Mars had the series finale last nite so im pretty sure it shouldnt be on the likely to be renewed list

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:30:01 +0000

agreed… keep the chuck!

By: francesca

francesca — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:17:11 +0000

i need chuck in my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: CHUCK

CHUCK — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:22:35 +0000

I don’t understand how those ratings are up at the top. What’s good, what’s bad? I really want Chuck to continue on and people say the ratings are on and off. Chuck, Heroes, and The Office are the only things I watch on NBC. Is there any action the viewers can take to help assure another season of Chuck?

By: djm

djm — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:17:02 +0000

*old news* is what I meant to say

By: djm

djm — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:16:21 +0000

old new guys? LOL @ jim B

By: Igel

Igel — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:13:07 +0000

Chuck must go on..

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:13:26 +0000

i think they need to change the time during which chuck is aired.

right now it is competing with house and gossip girl for ratings, which is pretty damn tough to do. maybe if they switched it to the 8-9 slot and let heroes take over the 7-8 slot there would be a ratings boost

By: jesse

jesse — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:59:28 +0000

chuck is one of the best shows and they better renew it for atleast 2 or 3 more seasons

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:59:10 +0000

Jim, why so angry? To have lasted so long, and made so much money, with such meager talent, would seem to be cause for personal happiness!

By: Jim B

Jim B — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:56:53 +0000

Don’t talk that way about my show!! Just because we decided to end the show (NO ABC DIDN’T BULLDOSE THE SET, LARRY WAS JUST MACKING A JOKE) dosn’t make us a zombie! So you know what TVBYTHENUMBERS staff, GO FUCK YOURSELF!

Jim Belushie!

By: James

James — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:23:37 +0000

Eric i agree with you 100% NBC is an idoit if they throw away the only good program it has going for it. Chuck is one of the better shows. I haven’t seen anything this good in a while.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:06:24 +0000

If Chuck gets cancelled, I will lock the NBC channel on my satellite so that no NBC show will ever get watched again in my household. Chuck might be the best show that I have ever watched. My wife who hates everything I watch even watches Chuck.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:30:51 +0000

GRD, why does that not surprise me? After all, Hollywood is the land of make believe!

By: GRD

GRD — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:26:15 +0000

I heard the other day that whichever Baldwin brother is on DSM is pulling a Brooke Shields and insisting that the show isn’t really canceled. What is getting into these actors lately? Is someone spiking the eggnog at all the Hollywood holiday parties?

By: Lynxie

Lynxie — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:44:11 +0000

“ATJ did better than both Pushing Daisies and Eli Stone. That has to sting a bit for fans of those shows.

I agree with the above post…. * chuckles *”

Yes, your right, the cancellation of Eli Stone does sting, and it sucks also!
The self-righteous glee of you two knuckleheads is callous and rude! Hope you don’t choke on all that arrogance.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:01:54 +0000

Barring something miraculous about how it goes on Fridays or a change to the way things generally seem to go, I doubt there would be any announcements about cancellation or final episodes. More of a case where the season finale airs, and then when the fall schedule comes out, it’s not there…

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:13:56 +0000

Thats preatty damn dead Robert.When do you think we will hear a annoucement considering the final episode?

Travis

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:54:05 +0000

season 3

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:37:23 +0000

Jericho season 1 or season 2?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:26:56 +0000

Sadly, I think we’re talking ‘Jericho’ style dead.

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:08:59 +0000

Robert can i ask how dead do you consider terminator? Since it seems like it cant even gain a whole bunch of people back to the show.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:16:49 +0000

Doug, I'm all for experimentation (see this story on why Fox decided to use House and Idol to build new shows, even at the expense of short-term ratings...as a bonus, reading between the lines, Dollhouse is DOA), but for now Survivor could drop to a 3.0 and would still win the hour. I don't see it going anywhere for a while, even with further ratings attrition.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:07:49 +0000

I’m not saying that CBS will move anything, but if I were CBS, I would try it out while everything is in repeats over the next few weeks/months. Survivor has been trending downwards for several years now, and will probably slip below a 4.0 in 18-49s during its next cycle. CBS can put its hands over its eyes as much as it wants, but the fact is that their strongest night, Thursday, is far past its prime and every season, it gets lower and lower returns. It’s still tv’s top night, yes, but it’s not invincible anymore. CBS needs to freshen it up and break it out of the format it established in 2001.

BBT/HIMYM don’t do viewer numbers as high as Survivor, but lately they have been beating that series in adults 18-49 and by a big margin in adults 18-34. Advertising-wise, CBS can make a lot more money on Thursday than Monday due to the nature of the business. CBS could move CSI to 10pm (where it would likely keep most of its numbers) and launch a new sitcom block from 8-10pm. It could do very well, or it could fail – who really knows. But the returns if it does well would be a lot more than if CBS does nothing at all on Thursday and watches Survivor sink to 10 million, CSI to 15 and whatever follows it to 8 million. CBS should take the next few weeks/months to experiment with repeats when it really has nothing to lose.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:47:02 +0000

Tim, How I Met Your Mother is finally a success, it took 4 seasons for that to finally happen. I highly doubt CBS is going to screw with it at all, for fear of killing the massive head of steam it’s picked up lately.

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:07:28 +0000

Diane, there’s plenty of season left for things to change. At the moment, Without a Trace is in trouble, though this list does not include Dec. 16th. But who knows how it will perform in the spring?

By: Diane M

Diane M — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:55:37 +0000

Why would CBS cancel Without a Trace when it’s doing better in the 10 p.m. Tuesday time slot than what was there last season? It did very well on Dec. 16, so shouldn’t that be in its favor? It really doesn’t help any series when so-called ‘specials’ keep the regular shows from airing.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:27:34 +0000

The Monday comedies are doing fantastic – well, except for Worst Week. That show is so lead-in dependent you can’t get a clear estimate of exactly how many people are watching it. It would die if were airing on Wednesdays. Old Christine and Gary Unmarried are really not doing that well, though. Their demos are low, and while they continue to grow, they still can’t get above 8 million.

IMO, once Worst Week ends in February, I’d move Christine back to the slot on Mondays, where it could easily beat the ratings WW is getting, and replace it with Rules of Engagement on Wednesdays paired up with Gary Unmarried.

But then for next season, I’d definitely keep the Wednesday comedy hour, and maybe if Rules of Engagement does well, keep it there maybe with Gar Unmarried. I think one of the new comedies will definitely get cut, and at this point, I think it’ll be Worst Week. I honestly don’t really like either of the new comedies that much, but WW is too lead-in dependent and probably deserves to be cancelled more. I really don’t think CBS would move Big Bang Theory or How I Net Your Mother to the slot, though. Both are killing on Mondays.

By: johnthemon

johnthemon — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:14:30 +0000

“I guest starred on ‘According to Jim’. I was the comic relief”.
-Peter Griffin

I think they’re going to need some comic relief by the end of this season.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:41:59 +0000

Kaycor, the guy who wrote that editorial has one of my favorite “TV Critic/review” blogs (it’s his personal blog, not his stuff for the Star-Ledger):

http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:41:38 +0000

lisaw, you are substantially correct. All show season averages include reruns that aired in the show’s standard timeslots, except shows designated “specials” by the network (which is fairly rare). Reruns outside of the standard timeslot, such as when NCIS aired on a Friday night, or lots of shows rerunning on Saturday night, are not included in the season averages.

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:39:27 +0000

lisaw, Yes, the “season-to-date” numbers used here do include any in-slot reruns. That does skew the numbers somewhat, but there’s really no way around it.

By: lisaw

lisaw — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:37:24 +0000

Is my understanding right that reruns are included as part of this Season’s figures?

The entire CBS programme of NCIS, The Metalist and Without A Trace on December 9th were reruns and as far as I can see the viewing figures are included in the average of the Season to date.

By: Kaykordeath

Kaykordeath — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:37:04 +0000

Interesting Opinion piece in today’s NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/opinion/19sepinwall.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:40:12 +0000

Why would CBS move Survivor for shows that will undoubtedly get worse ratings?

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:29:35 +0000

BBT and HIMYM will be split, whether you think it’s a good idea or not. They may “fit like a glove,” but they are two separate series and CBS will eventually split them, like ABC did with Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy.

Like that combination, I see CBS moving one of them to Thursday, however, to launch a new hour of comedy on the night in place of Survivor.

By: BIG DADDY

BIG DADDY — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:58:13 +0000

Splitting up BBT and HIMYM has to be one of the dumbest ideas ever.

Tim do you consult for NBC in your spare time?

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:33:02 +0000

While CBS might keep the Wednesday comedy block, they are not going to expand it to two hours. Criminal Minds is one of their strongest shows and the CM/CSI: NY block is working really well for them. They aren’t going to be quick to break up the successful part of their Wednesday nights for the sake of the struggling comedy block.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:51:20 +0000

Tim, CBS wouldn’t split Big Bang and HIMYM up, they both fit like a glove, like Gossip Girl and OTH. Especially with Big Bang & HIMYM growing their audience consistently.

By: tim

tim — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:41:32 +0000

sorry, more clear idea:

Monday:
8 The Big Bang Theory
8:30 Rules of Engagement
9 2 and a Half Men
9:30 new comedy

Wednesday:
8 New Adventures of Old Christine
8:30 Garry Unmarried
9 How I met Your Mother
9:30 New comedy/ worst week

By: tim

tim — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:38:59 +0000

i think if CBS sticks with this wednesday comedy block, i believe Gary and Christine will survive, if they decide to axe the idea, then both are dead.

idea for next year:
Monday: Wednesday:
8 The Big Bang Theory 8 New Adventures of Old Christine
8:30 Rules of Engagement 8:30 Garry Unmarried
9 2 and a Half Men 9 How I Met You Mother
9:30 New Comedy 9:30 New Comedy/Worst Week