Comments on: Weds TV Ratings: America's Got Talent tops Octomom, NBC wins night

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:03:31 +0000

Yes, having kids to feed your need for attention and then exploiting them for money. That sure is liberated!

By: moraliste

moraliste — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:30:56 +0000

Why this sudden righteous indignation over that typical idiot Octomom. Are you just envious?? To me she’s just like Lyndie England, Lorena Bobbitt, or Condoleeza Rice … as sign of liberated times.I don’t care if the b***h has eight more kids,and makes you bleeding heart fools pay for each strained apricot. Go Octomom! Tax the morons more. Got good ratings,too… better than Men in Trees.

By: Kathy B.

Kathy B. — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:22:07 +0000

I finally got around to watching Mad Men. I’m still in awe.

By: richard less

richard less — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:51:08 +0000

I might add that I, too, am guilty of being fascinated by this (not so much by Octopest, but the car chases.)

By: richard less

richard less — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:47:48 +0000

America loves train wrecks. Just like they do high-speed chases where there’s a chance innocent drivers and pedestrians may get killed on live television.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:00:10 +0000

How’s Jon & Kate plus Eight doing in the ratings? This is one show that really needs to be off the air. I used to watch it but no longer. It’s like watching a trailer park family (kids not included) Jon & Kate both, just listening to them now grates on my nerves.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:24:18 +0000

Do u guys have the ratings for the latest Nurse Jackie episode?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:01:53 +0000

I’m not surprised that Octomom did as well as it did; there actually is still quite a bit of interest out there and those who say they will never watch a show with her on it are first in line to see it. She is somehow fascinating to a good many people.

By: maggie

maggie — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:29:52 +0000

octomom gave her usual performance, flapping those big lips and acting stupid while the kid continually hit the cameraman and threw a tantrum, Was her mother the one in the trunk that she thought was so funny to hear roll around? This is a Jerry Springer show for sure. Why doesn’t she just take her shirt off its always down to her waist anyhow. This is in stark contrast to 18 and counting where the children actually mind and work in the home. These children will be in juvy by the time they are 8, she doesn’t believe in disipline. She sounds like a raving loon most of the time, Ratings??????????How can you rate something like this. I Thought it would be about the kids, saw very little of them, just the ones hitting the camera person and the one hiding and screaming, but the camera followed her all over and those nice nails sure don’t change many diapers!!!!!!!!!Whats the lowest rating you can get, give it to her!!!!!!

By: TSA

TSA — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:20:04 +0000

Thanks Rob. Can’t believe how strong a performance Univision pulls sometimes.

By: Shem

Shem — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:47:26 +0000

Isn’t 10 mil low for Talent?

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:18:20 +0000

Craig, there was talk of a multi-year documentary on these kids. That’s what I’m hoping this has put an end to.

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By: craiguk

craiguk — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:52:42 +0000

@Julia

Do you think for a minute this isn’t going to be a Sky1 special?

Almost zero cost for Murdoch to put it on Sky1.

By: LB

LB — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:24:30 +0000

Octomom should not be on TV at all I wish it did worse. Allo those babies without a father how sad is that.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:14:30 +0000

I wish that the ratings were lower for the Octomom

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:51:41 +0000

My only hope is that this convinces whatever UK network that supposedly is willing to exploit Octomom’s children that it’s a very bad idea.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:41:05 +0000

Mañana Es Para Siempre at 9p and Don Francisco Presenta at 10p were Univision’s best performers last night

By: TSA

TSA — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:37:46 +0000

Nice to see Millionaire gaining a LITTLE steam, anyway. What in the world gave Univision a performance like that?

By: HogWash

HogWash — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:33:16 +0000

I think that its amazing that AGT repeats the next night so well. I think that would be a good indication that NBC will bring it back in the Fall. I know they run repeats on Sunday’s all day on Oxygen, any idea how those repeats do? Anyone notice that they have advertised for new auditions?

By: CP

CP — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:29:17 +0000

After that first girl (who I thought had a great shot at winning) got kicked off AGT, nothing else mattered to me for that show. Leverage was great though.

By: JR

JR — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:11:43 +0000

Yes, “Millionaires” ratings have been pretty consistent, on the whole. I’ve been watching. Both Tuesday episodes have seen the lowest ratings for the 9 nights thus far.

Week 1 (official numbers reported by ABC):
7 million
7.3 million
6.1 million
6.5 million
7.2 million

Week 2 (numbers posted on this site):
7 million
6.97 million
6.25 million
6.88 million

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:06:09 +0000

I am also happy that octomom did not do too steller, maybe plans to use her “fame” are now up for conversation and debate.

Rewarding a mother like this will be a downfall to society.

How many people out there will then try to have 9 children knowing that if they all survive, they are gauranteed to have a reality show.

Even if 0.001% of the population would give it a try, thats a few more than 1. And 1 is to many.

We shouldn’t support these character’s in soceity….

gone is the bearded woman, gone is werewolf boy, gone is the tatooed, fattest, 2 headed lizard man….

and so should the octomom!

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:04:04 +0000

AGT has been a bit off the pace both nights this week and won’t actually be the top show of the week among 18-49′s (Hells Kitchen will be #1 this week). Can’t say I watch the show, so I’m not sure why.

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? seems to have held onto the fairly low audience that it started out with. Pretty poor for Octomom, but probably better than whatever repeats FOX would have served up otherwise.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:00:30 +0000

Robert, is ABC planning on moving Shark Tank on tuesdays when the fall season starts??

By: gmyers

gmyers — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:51:52 +0000

What were Octomom’s total viewer numbers? Are they a secret?

By: Visan

Visan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:50:08 +0000

I am soooo glad Octo-Dingbat lost out! Sick of her famewhoring!

By: kev0170

kev0170 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:25:27 +0000

but i dont think that octomom special shudve come at this time tho because all of the octomom hype is gone and no one reli follows her anymore so FOX in my view basically got lucky that it got so much in the first place

By: kev0170

kev0170 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:22:10 +0000

shameeee… i lost track of this since summer hit lol

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:20:44 +0000

Kev, it does skew old, though most shows on broadcast do. Last night at 9pm about 3.2 million out of 10.3 million were in the 18-49 range.

Anon: I can’t lie, I’m glad Octomom didn’t win the night overall

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:20:06 +0000

Octomom’s show didn’t have too much promo – I didn’t even know it was on until a few days ago to be honest (although Robert must be happy with the lack of ratings!)

I’m surprised AGT got hit by Octomom, but I’m sure the show will rebound next week.

By: kev0170

kev0170 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:18:00 +0000

AGT doesnt skew old, it has a mixture

By: ABCHasProblems

ABCHasProblems — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:17:14 +0000

I thought Octomom would skew old (like Millionaire and AGT) instead of young (like SYTYCD).

By: kev0170

kev0170 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:17:13 +0000

probably but we have no proof of that barring the circumstances that occured at that time

By: The1337

The1337 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:13:49 +0000

If the Octomom special was done earlier, I’m sure it would have gotten much better numbers.