Comments on: Saturday Ratings: We now return to our regularly scheduled programming

By: Ladiesman217

Ladiesman217 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:42:04 +0000

Pretty kewl.

By: AprilFox

AprilFox — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:33:55 +0000

I watched Crusoe and didn’t find it boring, actually it had some great fight scenes and lots of action on the homeland as well, with Sam Neill becoming even more sinister.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:15:15 +0000

tooltip, i think I accidentally copied and pasted over it. fixed.

By: tooltip86

tooltip86 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:09:18 +0000

What happen with America’s Most Wanted? I think you forgot to post it.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:27:13 +0000

Personally I think Crusoe is a great if you give it a chance you might come around to like it too.

It may have done better if NBC put it on a better day, but since it finished production long ago I guess it doesn’t matter if it gets good ratings or not since it’s a mini-series.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:36:46 +0000

Unknown, we don’t get late night numbers from Nielsen. NBC provides a good round up of Mon-Fri late night numbers as well as Saturday Night Live numbers in their press releases, but not competitive show weekend late night numbers. You can see them here:

http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/late-night

By: Unknown

Unknown — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:24:15 +0000

Is there any numbers for Spike Feresten? They aired its first hour long episode and I wanna know people actually saw it.

By: falacer

falacer — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:01:58 +0000

Unless there is a Trojans football game on, Saturday’s are meant to be out drinking not staying home watching tv =)

By: sam

sam — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:44:39 +0000

yeah thats what i ment rob sorry should of been more specific

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:47:31 +0000

Ouch for Crusoe’s numbers. It’s pretty fitting that a boring show like that gets such poor ratings. For a second, I though I was looking at the CW’s numbers and not NBC’s.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:59:33 +0000

sam, they’re not mixed up. The reason for the drop off is that last week there was an NFL playoff game on before it that probably had 30 million people, with still multiple millions hanging on for the post-game coverage. Last night, it didn’t, so it doesn’t strike me as weird at all.

[edit] i see what you mean, all the data is correct but ABC should rank higher than CBS for the hour in terms of sort order.

By: sam

sam — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:51:48 +0000

i believe you mixed up CBS and ABC……….why did game show in my head drop so much sorta wierd

By: clutz

clutz — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:25:47 +0000

@josh: I think the networks in the U.S. have assumed that with sports, cinema, movie rentals, dining out, nightclubs, yadda yadda yadda…most Americans aren’t tuning in to regularly scheduled television series on a Saturday night. Nielsen panels may have added validity to that. For example, perhaps half the Nielsen meters are showing that TV’s are turned off? I picked half as a random number there, but to extrapolate – if the Nielsen viewers are not watching TV, there’s a good chance that most American viewers are otherwise occupied on Saturday nights.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:58:22 +0000

The viewers were there when the networks offered something people wanted to watch. It isn’t the viewers’ abandonment of the networks on Saturdays that is the issue. It is the networks’ abandonment of the viewers that is the problem.

Repeats, lame game shows, old movies people have seen over and over? That is not must see TV. The only positive for the networks is that those shows play to their bottom line.

By: josh

josh — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:54:59 +0000

how strage… Saturday TV in the UK, is one of the, if not THE highest rated of the week? When was the last time that a popular program was show on a Saturday in the US?

By: johnthemon

johnthemon — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:20:55 +0000

Gosh…to say Saturdays are dead would be like saying water is wet.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:16:04 +0000

i thought I said that.

By: cool

cool — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:12:08 +0000

‘Game show’ went back to its normal numbers.