Comments on: Thursday Ratings: Fox Wins; So You Think You Can Dance? Rolls Over Repeats

By: R.G.

R.G. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:09:43 +0000

Looks like CBS will have a Jauggernaut Thursday nite line up with CSI and Mentalist this Fall…

By: Shem

Shem — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:08:55 +0000

Smart

By: Theoacme

Theoacme — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:55:09 +0000

To solve the Samantha problem, they need to retool the show:

1) Replace Christina Applegate with Chiasa Aonuma,
2) Set the show in Seattle,
3) Have Sandra Oh play her bff (crossover with Grey’s Anatomy)
4) Have Margaret Cho, Lucy Liu, Joan Chen, and Ming-Na make frequent guest appearances,
5) Change the name of the show to “Samantha Hu”
6) Pay me 10 percent royalties.
7) Deduct 10 percent of my royalties, and send them to TVBTN

By: Don

Don — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:59:19 +0000

Let’s not forget Samantha Who? has very little summer competition, whereas Better Off Ted is up against the summer’s biggest show, America’s Got Talent, which has 12mil+ viewers. Not saying BOT’s numbers are excusable, but against lighter competition, it’d had a few more million.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:19:48 +0000

ABC’s fall comedy’s look hilarious though.

By: Master Moron

Master Moron — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:26:24 +0000

Riff Rafferty, people are mainly upset because Samantha Who got cancelled and garbage like Better Off Ted got renewed. I wouldn’t really complain at all if they cancelled Better Off Ted as well. Actually, your suggestion of cancelling every half hour comedy they have is a good one. When’s the last time ABC had a hit comedy? They all seem to sink their ratings.

By: Riff Rafferty

Riff Rafferty — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:43:50 +0000

RJ writes, “ABC was right in cancelling Samantha Who?
However, Better off Ted should have went with it.
While ABC was at it, Scrubs should have been thrown away too.”

So, in other words, they should have dumped every single half hour comedy they have.

“Samantha Who?’s” final episode (“With This Ring” – July 23, 8:30/7:30) does provide some closure. If that’s what people are upset about. Or perhaps people are just upset because it and “Ted” will both be running for 2 seasons.

By: Edie Britt

Edie Britt — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:41:03 +0000

i see potentional in samantha who?
i think its soo stupid too cancel this show
its great

By: jay

jay — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:25:58 +0000

On the subject of Samantha, I’ll bet if you went back and checked, shows which are switched to a new time and get lousy promotion have already shown signs of weakness in some key demo the execs were hoping to appeal to. It may be almost microscopic to the untrained eye, but I’ll still bet that’s the reason. ( As well as the fact that, as Bill pointed out, the $$$ the beautiful Ms. Applegate must have wanted upfront to do the show had to make exceptional and not just so-so ratings in the 18-35 female and other demos a must for it to survive.) As for the young female dancers on the Fox show … God bless America.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:48:46 +0000

I cant wait any longer for fall!

And mid-season, becuase I want LOST and CHUCK!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:11:31 +0000

I’m watching the Grey’s/Practice reruns, so I hope ABC doesn’t showing them. For me, even old episodes of those shows are the highlight of my viewing week. The fall season can’t arrive soon enough.

By: rob

rob — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:29:58 +0000

as much as i love better off ted, i would have rather seen samantha who stay since its already had 2 seasons and christina applegate is very funny. ABC shouldve just paid whatever they wanted. it costs more to start up a whole new comedy. i mean samantha who didnt do good last night but it didnt go down from one episode to the other. it stayed the same, which is good.

yea ABC should just air the last 2 episodes of motherhood on a friday at 9 and 930 just to get rid of it.

By: ABCHasProblems

ABCHasProblems — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:40:09 +0000

“Wednesdays @ 8″ is what I meant. Also, I bet Motherhood will be shipped to Fridays sooner or later.

By: ABCHasProblems

ABCHasProblems — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:38:09 +0000

ABC should air new episodes of Wipeout on Thursdays @ 9 (along with Wednesdays @ and move Japanese Game Show to Thursdays @ 10 (away from Got Talent and SYTYCD). I think it’s really stupid for them to air GA/PP repeats knowing they’re better off airing reality shows.

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:12:16 +0000

^Yes it did, but only when it followed Dancing. When it lost the Dancing lead-in, it had a huge drop (loosing 7 million viewers and 1.7 in the demo in 2 weeks). It never fully recovered. It went from averaging 13-14 million and over a 4.5 to struggling to get over 10 million and a 3.0.

By: Master Moron

Master Moron — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:54:12 +0000

Didn’t Samantha Who get good ratings in its first season? Then they started switching up its timeslot and not advertising it and big surprise, its ratings crashed. Better Off Ted, on the other hand, had crappy ratings to begin with.

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:32:26 +0000

USA had a Burn Notice marathon followed by a Royal Pains repeat at 10. I doubt there will be a press release about it.

Samantha Who? may have done better than Ted, but its original episodes also came in 4th against all repeats.

By: cool

cool — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:23:44 +0000

oh thanks Bill

By: RJ

RJ — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:20:42 +0000

Didnt USA run a Burn Notice Marathon all day anyways?

By: RJ

RJ — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:19:55 +0000

ABC was right in cancelling Samantha Who?
However, Better off Ted should have went with it.
While ABC was at it, Scrubs should have been thrown away too.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:17:50 +0000

Cool, the nightly Univision numbers are in the nightly average table, and, as always, I will post any USA press releases that appear, but I’m guessing most folks are off today.

By: cool

cool — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:16:42 +0000

I wonder if Univision or/and USA beat ABC/CBS/NBC last night?

By: Anil

Anil — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:15:48 +0000

Yeah exactly..that Ted crap is coming back and not SW. This is BS.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:10:22 +0000

Angry Samantha fans have a point, it did do better than Ted on Tuesday, but our understanding was that it was ultimately canceled because it couldn’t cut its budget down to what ABC wanted. Besides the production costs, I’m sure that Ms. Applegate’s fee was a big stumbling block

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:01:18 +0000

Has this happened before? I don’t remember seeing Grey’s repeats go down to sub-1.0 in the 18-49.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:57:56 +0000

Why, oh why, does ABC even bother to air GA/PP repeats? They should just shove in a few episodes of AFHV and call it a night.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:42:53 +0000

Christina Applegate has a pettition that peple are signing to get her show back on the air. It has 32,000 signatures so far.

I’m mad that ABC isnt going to air the last two episodes of In the Motherhood because it only has 2 million viewers. But Better Off Ted and The Goode Family only get 1 million veiwers. It angers me.

By: David4

David4 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:35:06 +0000

Samantha Who? was the best comedy ABC had, and every seemed to enjoy it. It pisses me off that they didn’t even give it a 13 episode third season just to end the show.

By: rob

rob — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:31:42 +0000

wow samantha who does better than better off ted does. still bothers me how ABC could cancel it.