Comments on: Saturday Ratings: Fox's Cops, America's Most Wanted Win Again

By: David

David — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:48:24 +0000

Maybe the mentalist reapeat did not do well because people are finalyl getting sick of them repeating it everyother day. That show has repeated itself more than it has show new episodes.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:12:55 +0000

I wonder what would happen if Fox aired an episode of ‘Idol’ on a Saturday. Here in the UK Saturday is a tv goldmine, pulling in the highest ratings. ‘Britains got Talent’ pulls around 12 million, ‘X-Factor’ (Simon Cowell talent show) pulls around 10 million , ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ (UK Dancing with the Stars) gets around 10 million, ‘Doctor Who’ around 9 million. I find it fascinating how TV nights differ around the world. Perhaps you guys in the US have lives and go out on the weekend lol.

Perhaps you guys just need a show people would watch on the weekend. I know the soaps here in the UK which pull around 6-10 million throughout the week would probably do a lot worse on a Saturday. We love family entertainment and talent shows on a Saturday. How do they do on Saturdays in the US? There must be millions of families who watch TV in the US on Saturday nights, but don’t want all the heavy drama ‘Mentalist’, ‘Law and Order’, ‘Southland’ or crime shows ‘AMW’, ‘Cops’. I would be interested to see if the audience would follow America’s Got Talent to a Saturday night.

By: AO

AO — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:08:34 +0000

Go Harper’s Island!!

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:33:20 +0000

So much for the repeat of the Mentalist doing better than new Harper’s Island.

By: So Cal

So Cal — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:03:57 +0000

There might only be 17 of us, but we love us some Harper’s Island!

By: Gusar

Gusar — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:03:28 +0000

@Kermonk: LOL!

By: Kermonk

Kermonk — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:17:17 +0000

NBC has too many people with negatively laden microexpressions.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:41:42 +0000

Ew. If Mentalist (which has shown to repeat well on other nights) can’t bring’m on Saturdays, it really is a wasteland

By: thedemonhog

thedemonhog — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:35:47 +0000

I find that Saturday almost always grows throughout the night. 48 Hours Mystery and the Law & Order repeat consistently outperform the rest of their networks' lineups.

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:46:54 +0000

Theoacme, the difference between 8 and 9 on Saturday is probably about the same as every other day of the week.

By: Theoacme

Theoacme — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:44:50 +0000

Not that anyone really cares, except for TVBTN addicts and network execs who are addicts to Amphojel, but are the differences in HUT between 8 and 9 on Saturdays worth bothering about?

Reason I ask – AMW got a higher demo rating, but a lower share, than Cops. It looks like the 2d hour of Mentalist increased the overall audience in the demo to lower the AMW share, despite its higher demo – am I reading that right?

By: Theoacme

Theoacme — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:38:11 +0000

NBC affiliates – there’s your sign – you’re getting Saturday nights back…

…and give Bill the credit when this comes true (and the commission for the increased ad revenues you’ll get to keep airing whatever else you air instead of Southland)

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:37:58 +0000

double ABC logo fixed and replaced w/NBC, if you’re still seeing it, it’s your browser cache…

By: rob

rob — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:32:08 +0000

Its amazing how NBC can’t win any night.

By: Dario

Dario — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:29:36 +0000

Southland low! Last episode had more than 4 mil. (R)…just like the original episode..so I thought it will happen again…

By: djm

djm — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:28:50 +0000

err, it looks like you put the ABC logo twice…