Comments on: Monday Ratings: CBS takes night, Dancing With the Stars and 24 finale

By: pau

pau — Sat, 30 May 2009 08:54:08 +0000

Oh please, what are these insane comments; Veronica Mars had better ratings than Gossip Girl has now. It was canceled because it was too smart, the network wanted shows more focused in teen girls target audience’s interests (soap opera,fashion,money,teen white people) that’s all.
And only two characters interesting in VM….euh for example Logan was a far superior Chuck Bass, had you really seen the show ? Iam not sure with these comments…

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:23:21 +0000

twinsmom, I’m sure you can watch it on fox.com or Hulu.

By: twinsmom

twinsmom — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:09:33 +0000

We did not watch 24 because, for some reason, the screen said something to this effect for the entire 2 hours, “We know that FOX is off-air, please do not call us.” We thought that it was everywhere, but reading these comments, no one else has posted that they had the same problem. We have been faithful 24 viewers since season 2, so needless to say, we are very diasppointed that we did not get to see the finale.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:27:38 +0000

Veronica Mars got treated badly?!? I totally disagree. It had microscopic ratings yet stuck around for three seasons and for a while looked like it had a live shot at yet another season, despite chronic lack of viewers.

As for unfavorably comparing Gossip Girl’s ratings to Chuck’s, I bet if Chuck aired on the CW, its demos would be about half what they currently are.

By: johnthemon

johnthemon — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:44:55 +0000

24 finale averaged what the Heroes finale did. Without Heroes as its lead-in, Medium fell apart.

By: greg hemminger

greg hemminger — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:34:01 +0000

Is there any there even the remotest of chances that The CW will sober up and pay Chad Michael Murray and Hillary Burton to stick around for season 7. I know its being reported as a done deal but the season finale did nothing to close the doors on their characters when they had plenty of time to write in an exit scenario. Either their wrters have a wose edit strategy than the Bush administration or they are holding on to a faint hope that the pair are reup-able. The cast signed 6 year deals when they were unknowns, recession or no recession you’d hope to think a raise would be offered after 6 years on a low rated but profitable show. Cost cutting measures usually don’t begin with your two main characters. where is the logic? We are talking about a network that treats OTH like Gossip Girl’s ugly redheaded step brother as it seems it is given 3 times the push that OTH recieves when OTH consistently outdraws it week after week.(eg.2.61 to 2.23 mil. this week) I just don’t know where the shoe goes without the two(i know Chad aint no D.D. lewis) but we’ve always een this world through his eyes.
Good news for the other 12 OTH fans out there. While in disgussions with Paul Johansson to act in a fim i’ve written and directed(yeah i’m a Tarintino influenced writer whose constantly ridiculed for my love for OTH and FNL, though FNL is of too high quality to be considered a guilty pleasue) he told me he’d be returning for a 7th season although his hand in directing the show may continue to limit his screen time but no more than it has since season5.

By: Richard Steven Hack

Richard Steven Hack — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:00:59 +0000

Bad Robot: Send Jack Bauer to join John Connor in the future. Let Catherine Weaver put a spike through his head! LOL!

By: Shea

Shea — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:34:34 +0000

Did anyone here just watch Glee tonight? It was amazing and i couldn’t stop watching. I watched it twice (thanks to my dvr)!

I honestly think it will at LEAST pull in 18 million viewers and a 7 ish rating tomorrow. It was that good and its right after AI and it’s basically AI’s audience

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:55:07 +0000

One tree hill is still going strong!!!!!!

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:22:10 +0000

Jon K, “Normal” I couldn’t say, I don’t track that number over time. I randomly picked another Tuesday in mid-season (Feb 23) and the numbers weren’t that different, 18-49 8-9pm 36.1%,, 9-10pm 39.2%

By: Jon K

Jon K — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:15:20 +0000

Thanks, Bill. Do you know how that compares to normal? It seems kind of low, I mean what is everyone doing on a Monday night?

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:58:43 +0000

Jon K, last night 34% of US adults 18-49 were watching TV 8-9pm, and 38.4% were watching 9-10pm. An increase of about 13% from hour to hour.

By: Jon K

Jon K — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:54:05 +0000

Despite gaining 1.5mil viewers and 0.2 18-49 ratings points at 9pm, 24 still had a higher 18-49 share (9 vs at 8pm. That says it all right there, people weren’t watching tv at 8pm.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:32:59 +0000

Its a shame that the 24 finale didnt do better in the ratings because I thought the 2 hour Finale ROCKED! This season was wasy better than the previous season. The problem with a show like 24 is that it needs to get fans hooked from the first episode of the season because this isnt the type of show that someone can just jump into. So whatever the ratings are for the
first episode of the season is pretty much what they will get throughout the season give or take.

By: Tory

Tory — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:22:16 +0000

Its really interesting that the ratings for 8pm are a million and a half lower than 9pm. Its not a miss an hour and watch type of show. I’m guessing that DVR numbers will be good. You can’t miss an hour like that, and 9pm is the regular viewing time for the show, so people may have missed the time change.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:08:43 +0000

alex heroes ratings have been already tanking in its 3rd season while 24 is in its 7th.how will heroes look in 4 yrs…canceled

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:05:59 +0000

NBC made a perfect excuse to cancel meduim. Deal or No Deal is doing poorly and NBC purposely because they wanted medium dead.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:34:14 +0000

Going up a tenth is doing much better? Not sure I agree with that.

A 3.1 is still well below the season average, which isn’t good for the finale and still puts it in the same area as Heroes in the 18-49 and below it in the 18-34. That’s not good.

By: alejandro

alejandro — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:27:58 +0000

what happened to the greek numbers! you promised you’d post them if dollhouse got renewed…just sayin’….and himym great numbers great show

By: So Cal

So Cal — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:09:59 +0000

24 ended up much better in the finals. Numbers from the Berman gang at pifeedback

24 (120 minutes)
- 9.645 million viewers
- 5.7/9 HH
- 3.1/9 A18-49

By: Miki

Miki — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:23:06 +0000

Nice showing for HIMYM considering the pretty poor lead-in. And its demo numbers are very impressive.

By: AD

AD — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:52:19 +0000

Argh

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:31:42 +0000

@AD, you can’t find last night’s Greek #s until next Tuesday probably. Though I posted last week’s in the the weekly cable post (see Cable top 20 in the navigation above).

@Larman, Medium wasn’t a repeat last night.

By: larman

larman — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:19:27 +0000

it doesn’t mention that medium was a repeat

By: AD

AD — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:18:56 +0000

Ehi where i can find the GREEK numbers?

By: boomdizzle2

boomdizzle2 — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:17:02 +0000

I thought 24 was great all year, but it really did slump the last two episodes. The ending was one of, if not the weakest among the previous seasons. Love the show, but hope the writers can put it all together for 24 episodes next year!

By: Visan

Visan — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:08:32 +0000

DWTS is off in the ratings because Lil’ Kim was voted off a few weeks ago! But still good numbers!

By: Bad Robot !

Bad Robot ! — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:57:05 +0000

MEDIUM is toast, apparently. So ratings dont matter anymore. I guess the spinoff LARGE has been shelved.

By: mwa

mwa — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:49:17 +0000

What the hell happened to Medium’s ratings? Did Rumar Willis scare people away? Angelica Huston didn’t help the ratings???

By: Bad Robot !

Bad Robot ! — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:47:32 +0000

“24″ was a mixed bag of short arcs meshed together. The ending was no suprise, everyone knew Jacks daughter would save the day for him and that the Presidents daughter would get a smackdown from Mommie Dearest. Though Jacks bedside handwringing about all the bad things he has done to save millions of lives was a bit over the top.

I guess Day 8 will be in NYC. Better come up with something fresh – other than the evil US government conspiracies; its getting a tiring. How about some econuts/anarchists wanting to blow up the power grid/oil infrastructure to save Mother Earth?

Though I still like the idea of sending Jack back to stop the Lincoln assinating then returning to a very changed world – one with Hitlers son running America – which Jack would then have to “handle”. Ok, that would be ridiculous, maybe its time to wrap up “24″ with Day 8 and call it a week.

By: Alex_j

Alex_j — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:34:27 +0000

24 was pretty good this year. The numbers were similar for the previous season finale, so good. Jack rules!!!

@ T

I totally agree with your post. As a ‘veronica Mars’ fan I always hated how the CW treated VM… considering the treatment GG gets from the network.

Sorry for the troll guys, but if anyone can help me find the numbers for the 3rd season of VM… just to compare. Thanks.

By: R.G.

R.G. — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:20:07 +0000

…and to help every one remember the next 2 hour episode of “24″ is:
January 17th 2010…write it down!!!

By: R.G.

R.G. — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:18:43 +0000

Do THAT many people forget to tune in for 2 hour finale of 24…??? I mean it happened every time 24 was 2 hours long —the second hour had nearly 2 million people tuning in late…Every one I know in my area watched it…

I do think FOX needs to crank up the promos when it’s 2 hours…to remind people to tune in early…anyways 24 WILL BE BACK for another day…or season…

By: j

Tue, 19 May 2009 18:18:02 +0000

Wow, low numbers. Bachelorette/24 just hitting the 3 mark. Interesting that though Bachelorette is at 3 and Dancing’s at 4, they’re even with young people. And only one show hit a 3 with young people.

Leighton Meester is a wonderful actress. Veronica Mars, while still very good overall, had a decided downturn in the second season, then again in the third season. Even many diehard fans admit this. I’m afraid that if there had been a 4th season, it might not have been great. And the thing about Veronica is that I only ever loved two characters on that show: V of course, and Lilly, who was technically only a guest star and only showed up once after season one. I love more than two characters on Gossip Girl, which is not horrible. The second half of the season is not as good as the first half at all, but it is still quite good, and better than basically anything else on TV. Gossip Girl is also voiced by Kristen Bell…

By: djm

djm — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:46:54 +0000

LOL@ anthony
24 is abysmally low, no house=no dice
at least DOND beat CW…

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:42:58 +0000

Gossip Crap is down!!!!! i hope next season will be last for this horrible teen drama. can’t wait to see next drop in the numbers tonight for 90210.
24 is not down! Day 6 finished with a similar 9.4 million.

By: T

Tue, 19 May 2009 17:37:51 +0000

@ Peter Stulrajter

I don’t think Gossip Girl will be a target for cancellation as long as DAWN is in office. Seriously you don’t have to compare Chuck’s situation to Gossip Girl, Chuck never went down to 2.0 demo, as to Gossip it never reached a 2.0 demo. Gossip Girl targets most women, as to Chuck it caters to every individual. If you’d look at the rating, you can’t say that Chuck and Gossip Girl are at par with each other, because honestly if a show, or any kind of show for that matter having a demo such as Gossip Girl it would be canceled in a heart beat. it’s really a plus that it’s on a network who targets female audiences and has a lower cut off for renewal.Ok, another plus that Gossip Girl has is their very attractive cast, but not to under estimate Chuck I’d take Yvonne Strahovski any day over Blake Lively or Leighton Meester. And I totally hated CW after they canceled Veronica Mars so sorry if I had you as a target.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:28:06 +0000

I bet NBC is ready to renew Deal or No Deal after seeing it’s 9:00 numbers. And they’ll put it in Chuck’s timeslot! Bwahahaha

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:21:34 +0000

Can I just point out that 24 did Heroes like numbers for its finale last night.

Across the two-hours the 18-49 was even with Heroes finale and lower in the 18-34. And just looking at 9PM it was only a tenth higher in the 18-49 and four tenths lower in the 18-34, what the hell happened there? Competition? Lack of House lead-in?

By: Paul PT

Paul PT — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:16:31 +0000

the wednesday episode and last night 8pm episode was very strange to me… not good to the show!

I think it was better air the last two episodes at 9, after a double two and half men repeat at 8 pm, after HIMYM and Two and a Half Men end this season run…

But they didn’t so i’m waiting for next season to see what cbs plans to this sitcom.

By: S

Tue, 19 May 2009 17:13:23 +0000

Numbers are not that suprising for 24. Its been steadily declining the past few weeks. The writers picked a bad time for the 3 worst episodes of the season to be this late in the season and it hurt in the ratings. It did not do well in its first hour during the 2 hour midseason event as well so that was expected for the 1st hour for the finale. But either way, who cares. Its already renewed for another and more than likely last season. I expect it to add about 2 million in DVR viewing. That number has been pretty consistent all season long.

By: Peter Stulrajter

Peter Stulrajter — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:12:18 +0000

OMG…I just dont get you Americans…Gossip Girl is a show that has almost everything…the characters are likeable…good-looking…the plot is not boring…its actually really moving at times…and you rather watch your telebrities dance for the x-th time…its just sad…and I bet that if it gets under the risk of being cancelled…there will be posts and emails begging for survival…if you dont want to lose a show then watch on TV…its just THAT SIMPLE (the same situation with Chuck)

By: entertainmenttodayandbeyond

entertainmenttodayandbeyond — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:12:09 +0000

24 has its best season ever and ratings for its final are so-so! I DON”T get it!

chuck

By: Paul PT

Paul PT — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:11:54 +0000

with all that episodes available CBS could did better with ROE.

By: CP

CP — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:08:54 +0000

I’m wondering if they aired a new episode of Rules of Engagement at 8 and then repeated the same episode at 9:30 which would get better ratings?

By: So Cal

So Cal — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:04:13 +0000

I’ll say it again…Two and Half Men is unstoppable! Not to say the show is good (know there are many haters) but i happen to enjoy it after tuning in for the first time just this season.

Too bad to see the 24 number drop like that, but i expect it picks up some steam with the addition of DVR viewing. Twas a great season, especially after the season 6 debacle.

Also, great to see How I build big in the 18-49 demo out of ROE.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:03:04 +0000

LOL
On a night with high-profile shows CBS had the best adults 18-34 demo with Twoandahalfmen delivering 3.3

By: gmyers

gmyers — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:02:19 +0000

I meant that CBS would care more about ROE if it were creatively better.

By: Madness

Madness — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:01:39 +0000

ouch 24 was low but it was amazing hopes it gets back on its game next season

By: Alex_j

Alex_j — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:01:02 +0000

Jesus, with all the promo they get, one would think ‘Gossip Girl’ will have better numbers than ‘One tree hill’…

Guess not. And only 2.24 M viewers for Dawn’s pet… that gotta hurt. :evilsmile: