Comments on: Mad Men renewed for a fourth season by AMC

By: geri

geri — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:29:34 +0000

i can’t even watch-half the time my “on demand” doesn’t put the last episode on before the next episode airs. charter and amc blame each other but no one knows how to fix the problem. episodes just show up on a random basis.
guess i can cancel them both, watch hulu for free and wait til the show turns up on netflix!

By: thedemonhog

thedemonhog — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:03:51 +0000

“30 million”. Ha!

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By: The1337

The1337 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:22:31 +0000

I guess they need some positive spin on the show after the huge dropoff. It’s very hard for the average viewer who has see the critical success of the show to go to AMC on Sunday nights and start watching. The complexities of the show really has to be built up from the beginning. The pacing is a little slow and can be very confusing to people who have no clue what the show is about.

By: Cruel_Heartless

Cruel_Heartless — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:03:55 +0000

Wow that’s sad, that’s very sad AMC has to go to extremes and say that it achieved those sorts of figures. I mean seriously, relying on itunes to boost your overall viewing figures. That’s worthy of a CW Dawn medal for ‘Best spin on a tv show no one watches’. Though I bet despite all the hoopla and spin, advertisers are still wary of advertising with the AMC flagship show. Lord, a 1.6 for only it’s third episode and a 2.9 million drop off after two weeks. It’s a turkey especially when you factor in it costs two million per episode to make. Let’s just hope its meagre fan base buys lots of DVDs, hey AMC.

By: tammanycall

tammanycall — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:08:49 +0000

Thanks, Robert. I see it now: only 1.6 million watched the third episode.

By: Online Guitar Tuition

Online Guitar Tuition — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:10:13 +0000

This is as big of a no brainer as it should be for HBO to cancell Entourage

By: tdot

tdot — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:43:10 +0000

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:57:05 +0000

CraigUK: haha!

Tammany, I posted them in the text of the weekly top cable show’s post. http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/01/cable-ratings-wizards-of-waverly-place-the-closer-wwe-raw-royal-pains/25880

By: craiguk

craiguk — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:33:24 +0000

@Robert

I’m shocked, shocked I say, that any TV company would publish unverifiable numbers or even false data….Shocked!!

But on the other hand if any TV company published real, verifiable, actual numbers I’d probably have a heart attack on the spot.

By: tammanycall

tammanycall — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:28:07 +0000

Shouldn’t the third episode’s ratings be published by now?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:25:39 +0000

themsnumbers: I have issues with the way a lot of cable networks handle explaining what their numbers are, but I’m almost certain you have it correct and that 30 million is *not* un-duplicated reach.

By: themsnumbers

themsnumbers — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:14:22 +0000

“Last season, over 30 million viewers watched ‘Mad Men’ on-air, on video-on-demand as well as on iTunes.”

So they added up every viewing number they could, right? So I watched it 13 times then?

Still, this is great news.

By: craiguk

craiguk — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:54:10 +0000

Eggcellent!

By: e

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:03:02 +0000

Excellent!

By: greennogo

greennogo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:55:22 +0000

Excellent!