Comments on: Wednesday: FOX Wins, So You Think You Can Dance and Wipeout lead night

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:02:54 +0000

Placing the GOODE family against the interviews at the White House is split the audience again. The first week they were opposite some country awards. The need to slot it correctly.

The show is so on target.

By: R.G.

R.G. — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:02:45 +0000

I don’t even watch “I’m A Celeb…” and just from the previews and talk shows…how annoying that couple is…It should be called: ”

“I’m An Annoying Show…Get Me Off The Air”

By: Dude

Dude — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:23:34 +0000

I think I can dance!

By: rob

rob — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:32:37 +0000

The Goode Family has now been moved to a new day and time – Fridays at 8:30 pm

Surviving Suburbia has also been moved to Fridays at 8:00 pm

This change takes into effect on June 12.

By: ABCFanatic

ABCFanatic — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:42:23 +0000

Wipeout rocks ABC’s summer 2009

I’m glad ABC has a hit this summer especially The Bachelorette is doing not great.

By: Timmy

Timmy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:14:47 +0000

No WIPEOUT in the DC area, the VA Gov race was more important. I am sure it would have been better to show WIPEOUT and not show the GOODE FAMILY!! I hate the ABC Station here!!!

By: rob

rob — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:25:35 +0000

Impressive how The Unusuals did better at 10-11 than The Goode Family at 9-10. ABC messed up big time with the way they handled Unusuals, killing it while it was improving. I’m sure whatever they put in its place is going to do worse.

By: daniel

daniel — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:15:14 +0000

theres nothing good on network television
cables always the best in the summer
Psych, Monk, and GHOST ADVENTURES!!! (only one more day!!!)

By: Vetinari

Vetinari — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:38:48 +0000

I’m enjoying the Unusuals. It’s so much better than much of what’s on, a shame abc didn’t have faith in it to keep it around a while longer.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:23:06 +0000

Melissa, my bad, indeed the finale is on 6/17 per the official ABC schedule:

http://abc.go.com/primetime/theunusuals/index#navTabId=nextWeek

I will correct.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:14:00 +0000

BTW, there are still two more episodes of The Unusuals airing through June 17th: http://www.epguides.com/Unusuals/

By: Riff Rafferty

Riff Rafferty — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:01:42 +0000

Bill & Master Moron, “Surviving Suburbia” is still scheduled Wednesdays 9:30 ET/PT from July 10-July 1 and then Fridays 9:30 ET/PT starting July 3. Of course everything’s subject to change (it’s been yanked from 3 airdates now), but it looks like it’s at least Surviving Burn-Off.

And “The Goode Family” was MUCH better last night than the premiere. The football episode looked goode, as well. (The first episode looked ugly.) At least the characters weren’t clashing with the backgrounds.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:01:03 +0000

I agree with a few posts above: The Goode Family was much improved last night – particularly the 9:30 episode (the starved vegan dog and the Grandfather, voiced by Brian Doyle Murray, are the funniest characters). If the rest are like last night’s (as opposed to the awful pilot), it’s a shame it’s going away.

By: jay

jay — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:54:43 +0000

Not much to add to what’a above. Never looked closely before but it seems overall households declines somewhat more in the summer than 18-35 and 18-49. Can it really be the dinosaurs are the ones enjoying the summer in greater numbers while the youths are still glued to TV sets? It won’t be hard to find out.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:43:34 +0000

i found nothing on network tv i like i been whacing Re runs of stuff but toinght i will be whacing Burn Notice and Royal Pains

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:24:47 +0000

To add my 2 cents to various topics:

The Goode Family – was flogging a dead horse halfway through the pilot. They lost me when they had to explain their son’s heritage for the second time. And it wasn’t funny then either. If ABC want to do something constructive, I suggest they show re-runs of Castle. I’d happily watch them all again and it might convince the network executives at ABC to give Castle a full 22 episode season instead of the half-season it will have in the Fall.

If I was NBC, I wouldn’t be too worried about losing the four day winning streak to a Fox reality show. It’s a sad sign of the times when throwaway television gets higher ratings than scripted shows. However, NBC did give us the new Knight Rider, which lost me when the new KITT turned out to be a transformer. And as for cancelling My Name Is Earl, don’t get me started on that. Bad Karma.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:56:43 +0000

I can see the Ads now.

NBC…The Network you watch with there’s absolutely nothing else around (Ding-Dong-Ding)

By: MNIS

MNIS — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:05:17 +0000

wups didn’t know Goode Family was two eps

maybe other people didn’t know either

By: Some guy named John

Some guy named John — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:47:08 +0000

The Goode Family is one Bad cartoon. I couldnt bare watching it for more than 10 minutes before deciding to watch something off hulu.com
By the way Hulu Desktop is something to try out. It makes great use of my Home Theater PC (HTPC).

NBC’s Inside the White Housw was informative but overall very bland, and made me feel bad on how overworked many of those people are. Our country need to take a lesson from other nations and learn that free time is essential to physical and mental health.

I would love Wipeout if it wasn’t a blatent ripoff of Ninja Warrior, and for some reaons it makes the show a turnoff.

I can’t believe how well Univision does in the ratings, it ight be time to learn some Spanish.

The Can’t Win (CW) Network is doing so poorly I cant wait for the local affiliates/station owners, like Tribune, to cut the cord. The people at the CW cant even create a worth while reality show. When a cable channel can pull more views you need to be think “what the F am I doing wrong?”

By: nkinsey

nkinsey — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:41:00 +0000

It just floors me that procedurals’ ratings go up for the second hour. Just goes to show that not only can anybody jump in any given week and know what’s going on; but they can do the same halfway through the ep and know what’s going on.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:25:45 +0000

Whoa I’m surprised how badly TGF did last night! I watched both episodes and they were OK (although the 9:30 episode was much funnier than the 9pm one). ABC is going to have a rough summer – The Bachelorette isn’t doing too hot, TGF is flopping, Wipeout is luckily doing OK, and this other new show they have coming up (with these actors & athletes) looks like a major flop too (plus its airing against NBC’s AGT…good luck with that).

By: chet

chet — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:10:26 +0000

me too conman

its gonna be a long summer
only a few bright lights in another wise dark sky..
all on cable
burn notice closer monk etc

By: Connman

Connman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:05:04 +0000

The Unusuals is still showing on Comcast as having a couple of weeks to go before their Series Finale on 6/17. Too bad, as the wife and I enjoy the quirkiness of the show…the again, we enjoyed the new Knight Rider too…

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:03:44 +0000

Dennis, I have no idea. This is a show that has all its episodes in the can, airing in the summer, when ABC (so far at least) has just been getting crushed most nights. They could easily pull it today or let it finish out all its episodes.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:00:25 +0000

I have a question to Robert, Bill or whoever can answer it: What is ABC going to do with The Goode Family?
They could get better ratings with almost any show (yes, even Suburbia), but they have like 10 episodes left…

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:39:28 +0000

MM, Suburbia isn’t on the fall schedule, and has now been pulled from the summer schedule where its episodes were set to be burned off. I can see a small possibility those episodes still get burned off sometime, but there’s no way it’s coming back with newly produced episodes.

By: So Cal

So Cal — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:36:07 +0000

Master Moron-

I read somewhere that they had in fact cancelled Suburbia, but in looking at next week’s schedule, it is supposed to air. I guess we’ll find out next week

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:28:51 +0000

Im a Celebrity had such an incredibly short shelf life, I have no idea why NBC wanted to burn through it so quick.

Itll be interesting to see if NBC’s lineup today of Celebrity & the Listener can beat the Stanley Cup Finals.

By: Master Moron

Master Moron — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:25:13 +0000

What happened to Surviving Suburbia? Was it cancelled?

By: Paul PT

Paul PT — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:21:32 +0000

abc must pull the goode family next week. that numbers hurts my eyes!

By: J.Norman

J.Norman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:21:18 +0000

I caught the last 10 minutes of the Goode Family last night and thought that it seemed to be at least OK. Certainly far better than Sit Down, Shut Up. I don’t think it is being promoted very well though. . . or else I don’t watch a whole lot of ABC. It does have a KOTH feel to it. I hope it gets a chance to stick around. I’ll be sure to give it a full look next week.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:15:23 +0000

Alex, yes, the numbers for SYTYD are correct.

By: So Cal

So Cal — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:14:05 +0000

Too bad for The Goode Family…both episodes last night were quite good and an improvement over the pilot…hopefully ABC lets it play out its run

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:11:23 +0000

Are those 18-34′s for So You Think You Can Dance right? It really did exactly the same 18-34 and 18-49 from 8:30 and only .1 out at 8? That’s really very impressive and if it can maintain those 18-34 viewers in the fall its going to dominate that demo…

By: the128boy

the128boy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:05:00 +0000

NBC had better hope that I’m A Celebrity is close to the floor, because they have a lot of airtime still commited to this show.

By: CP

CP — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:50:04 +0000

I couldn’t watch Wipeout last night because they wanted to talk about the VA governor’s race. I’m not even voting for any of these people. What a bad break.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:46:40 +0000

Goode Family is already dead after its 2nd episode. Déjà vu.

By: Shem

Shem — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:38:14 +0000

Oh bummer: I knew NBC would fall to second place; SYTYCD is too strong! Can’t wait for America’s Talent and The CW’s Hitched or Ditched is a “success!”

By: Rick Holy

Rick Holy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:37:20 +0000

If Denny Terrio isn’t in some nursing home somewhere, maybe we can bring back “Dance Fever” – and it will probably be a ratings HIT!

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:26:14 +0000

Chief, fair enough, but I didn’t see any blog posts about either of those shows yesterday BEFORE the shows aired, and I saw what seemed like dozens of stories about I’m a Celebrity…

By: Chief

Chief — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:23:46 +0000

I was following Twitter’s trending topics much of last night and Wipeout and SYTYCD had more discussions going on than IACGMOOH.