Comments on: Friday Ratings: even with reruns, CBS still wins

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:45:12 +0000

Ladiesman217, I stand corrected, I had clean forgotten about Smallville & Supernatural, maybe because of my schedule I watch TV mostly online now.

But most of the ratings for the other shows on CW are dreadfully low..and in a mess

By: Gojou

Gojou — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:04:11 +0000

I’m surprised the Game and EHC has been improving this late in the season. If both of those shows reach over 2.0 million, then they should have a good chance of remaining where they are at on Friday Nights or moved them both back to Sunday.

It makes no sense why the CW moved those shows from Sunday and cancelled Aliens in America.

By: Rachel P

Rachel P — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:58:36 +0000

I can raise it to 300!

Because… THIS. IS. SPARTA (by the numbers) !

By: Hot Pocket

Hot Pocket — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:57:04 +0000

Thecolours, its certainly going to one of the more busier Saturdays on these ratings websites. I’d say it at least breaks 100 posts, but hard to believe it’ll be over 200 posts.

If it scores well or flops, they’ll be on to either brag or mourn about it.

Dollhouse will be Moonlight Part 2.

By: Thecolours

Thecolours — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:29:29 +0000

the over/under for number of post on February 14th is going to be 200.

By: Hot Pocket

Hot Pocket — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:27:50 +0000

I agree Bill, as both shows will air throughout the remainder of the season and I believe if the Dollhouse viewers avoid going to the movie theaters to see Jason opening night then we should see a decent opening for the show. Dollhouse could be one of the biggest flops ever, but it should be interesting no doubt.

By: Rachel P

Rachel P — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:05:37 +0000

I just bought a Terminator shirt at Hot Topic that has a giant pic of the endoskeletal skull with glowy red eyes. It’s tight. In the cool way.

Just thought everyone would be interested.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:52:49 +0000

Pocket, TSCC and Dollhouse may not do well enough to survive another season, but considering that the episodes are already paid for and produced, I’m certain they will air through the end of this season.

By: Hot Pocket

Hot Pocket — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:49:26 +0000

Besides shows on CBS on Fridays, the only positive ratings coming from networks are on MyNetworkTV for Friday Night Smackdown! There’s no doubt they set a new record this week and will continue on the road to Wrestlemania.

FOX Fridays curse has already been broken with 5th Grader and Lyrics and I can see these two taking over the slot before April unless Dollhouse really hits.

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:02:35 +0000

True, but 7 mil viewers isn’t going to guarantee anything. If miracles occur and TSCC somehow increases viewers significantly over Monday, that means nothing if it’s still getting clobbered in the demos. Any of them. That’s what I was answering.

By: Nick C

Nick C — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:58:19 +0000

Julia, not entirely true. All that matters are specific demos. If you can do well in the primary demo (18-49) you’re usually safe, but if you can do well in say the 18-34 or another important demo you can get by too. 30 ROCK only survived for a specific demo: the over $100k income crowd.

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:39:42 +0000

Steve, the only thing that matters is the demo.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:34:24 +0000

if TSCC was getting around 7 million on friday night would it be enough for a 3rd season?

By: kryptongirl18

kryptongirl18 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:22:39 +0000

SUPERNATURAL (Thursdays @ 9PM on the CW) is brilliant. Believe me, I didn’t expect it when the show started, but it’s fantastic (and I’m a TV snob). Most of the rest of the CW’s line-up is crap, but SUPERNATURAL is hysterical, frightening, moving, and well-written. The character development is as deep and layered as on any of the finest shows on television, the acting by the beautiful and talented Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester is superb, the music kicks ass, and the talented writers manage to deftly mix horror, humor, drama, and action every week.

By: V. S.

V. S. — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:49:47 +0000

Sorry–not everything on the CW is junk. Supernatural on Thursday nights is by far the BEST show out there in prime time right now.

By: johnthemon

johnthemon — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:42:35 +0000

I just think its a little odd that FNL is on the same time as Monk. NBC is playing against itself…I guess they can’t really help it.

By: Rachel P

Rachel P — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:16:01 +0000

2 nights out of 7, eh? And they still come in last on those nights.

By: Ladiesman217

Ladiesman217 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:59:24 +0000

Mike.

You can say that about any network. But The CW always stays strong with the thursdays line up, and also Monday’s line up.

That’s how they stay around.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:33:36 +0000

I agree how the heck is the CW running, They have awful ratings and borderline boring shows.. I’m amazed they are still around…

By: Ladiesman217

Ladiesman217 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:45:43 +0000

Nick C, That’s true, but if You get to choose the episode, people will vote for they favorite which will bring in the viewers.

By: Nick C

Nick C — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:34:51 +0000

Ladiesman217, problem is the ratings for reruns of SMALLVILLE are usually less than 3 million.

By: Ihateerickripke

Ihateerickripke — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:49:12 +0000

I don’t understand why the CW is still around. That network is the scum of tv, full of horrid dumb awful shows.
The ratings are pathetic. How can a 2.9 be a success? THE CW NEEDS TO STOP NOW.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:29:46 +0000

we don’t get overnight ratings for MNT. We probably won’t know until tuesday when we see final weekly ratings for the week (we do see MNT in the weekly #s)

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:27:39 +0000

What was Friday Night Smackdown rating on MYTV Network?

By: Ladiesman217

Ladiesman217 — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:59:27 +0000

Oh and get rid of The Game.

EHC: 1.90 Million
The Game: 1.91 Million
= 3.81 Million

If Smallville took over ECH & TG, Smallville Repeat would get about 3.86 Million, Smallville (7:00 3.86 Million), (7:30 3.87 Million) that’s 1.96 Million more than ECH & 1.96 Million more than The Game

13: Fear is Real: 1.01 Million
= 1.01 Million

If Smallville Viewers Choice took over it would be about 3.34 Million, That’s 2.33 Million more.

Gossip Girl Repeat would bring in about 2.21 Million

Smallville, Smallville, & Gossip Girl would bring in about 9.41 Million viewers

Where normal friday line up brings in 4.82 Million.

By: Ladiesman217

Ladiesman217 — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:54:12 +0000

Cancel Everybody Hates Chris & 13: Fear is Real

Those two shows are pointless and boring.

Friday line-up should be

7pm: Smallville (R) (Thursday’s Episode)
8pm: Smallville (Viewers Choice) (From any season)
9pm: Gossip Girl (R)

By: Nick C

Nick C — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:37:48 +0000

Wow, just after Robert showed me how HOUSE did in repeats last year around the same time pulling over 7 million viewers. These are the numbers I’d expect from TSCC and DOLLHOUSE but they had HOUSE and LIE TO ME by the numbers instead.

Those are exactly what I was thinking those two shows will pull in 2 weeks. We’ll see.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:13:03 +0000

*prays T:TSCC and Dollhouse can break the FOX Friday Night curse*

At least FOX is advertising Dollhouse. Starting to see a lot of promos, and Eliza Dushku will be on some great talk shows the week it premieres. Have some hope instead of dooming both shows already.

By: Rachel P

Rachel P — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:09:22 +0000

Holy crap, FOX bombed. This is gonna be interesting…

By: AC

AC — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:21:02 +0000

Thought the repeat of Lie To Me would have picked up a few more viewers.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:14:42 +0000

Wow, the ratings for The Game and Everybody Hates Chris actually went up from the last few weeks. I hope they are not in danger of being canceled seeing as CW shelved them on Friday nights.

By: Wendell

Wendell — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:06:55 +0000

NBC doesn’t advertise FNL. They advertise Howie Do It. The results show.

Look for zero “Friday Night Lights” ads during the Super Bowl.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:52:30 +0000

FNL actually increased from last week. But still,

By: Jackson

Jackson — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:38:01 +0000

Everybody Hates Chris (IMO is a great show) never did well in ratings but it looks like it’s been slowly growing week after week. Maybe it’ll hit 2 million sometime in the future and then get better numbers than Gossip Girl and 90210.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:14:14 +0000

Cool, it’s that Ben Silverman magic!

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:09:28 +0000

Can we put a nail into Friday Night Lights’ coffin now or what?

By: cool

cool — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:03:26 +0000

It’s funny that everytime NBC has renewed a series (Knight Rider, How Do It) the next airing goes to a series low.