Saturday Night Live really misses Sarah Palin. Last year's premiere ratings in the midst of Palin/Fey-mania are just a distant, fond memory. Still, being up a tick in the HH ratings vs. 2007 is pretty good news in today's broadcast television world.
Note that these metered market household ratings don't include demographic age group data and are often subject to substantial revision.
directly from NBC:
In late-night metered-market households Saturday night:
- The 35th season premiere of Saturday Night Live (4.6/11 in metered-market households), hosted by Megan Fox and featuring musical guest U2, dominated its time period.
- Saturday Night Live delivered the #1 rating of the night in the metered markets, topping all primetime telecasts on all the major networks. In fact, SNL outscored every Saturday primetime and late-night telecast on every major network over the past 16 weeks (since June 6).
- Last year's season debut, boosted by extraordinary interest in the 2008 Presidential Election and a guest appearance by Tina Fey as Gov. Sarah Palin, earned a 7.5/18 in metered-market households on September 13, 2008. Two years ago, SNL opened with a 4.5/11 on September 29, 2007.
It was a terrible terrible premiere. They should thank the newbie who dropped the “F” Bomb for giving people something to talk about, other than the premiere sucked.
SNL hasn’t been consistently funny for years. I’ll tune in every now and then and there just isn’t anything to keep drawn in.
it was a horrible show from start to finish…megan fox was not the one to kick off the season.
Love him or hate him, Justin Timberlake should have been the host of the premiere. Megan Fox was horrible, at least people know Justin can be funny.
I agree wrong host for sure….I was disappointed in the skits too…
its completely one dimensional these days this will be a trend every year with small spikes when there is a republican president
I miss MAD TV
much better show
I actually don’t blame Fox for the terrible show, I blame the writers for casting her in every skit as a body. She just stood there and did nothing. Even the skits without her (the opening one comes to mind) were just awful.
Skylar, I also don’t blame Fox. I blame NBC/Lorne Michaels for choosing her. I blame the writers for the material.
A perfect choice for the premiere of the 35th anniversary would of been either Chevy Chase, or Alec Baldwin. Both have shows with the network, and both have a storied past with SNL.
And what’s with having 2 Digital Shorts, but no songs by Andy Samburg and the boys.
What was with Keenan Thompson’s French character on Weekend Update? He sounded more like a redneck than French.
They could not have picked a worst host. Not only is Fox not funny, she’s not a good actress and any “buzz” she had is long gone thanks to her bomb movie and Transformers 2 being a bad movie. What were they thinking with that?
I agree with whoever said they just used Megan Fox as a body. They could have gotten edgy or funny with her instead they just threw wigs on her and had her stand there. How lame. I mean do something with the silly girl besides dress her up funny. The writing this season was just sad. I hope Lorne feels it was still a good idea to get rid of that one cast member that he did for being “too” funny. Smart move idiot. Heaven forbid we have people that are too funny on a comedy show.
Oh, and I miss MadTV too. *sigh*
My mouth was open for a couple minutes after the newbie dropped the f-bomb. That must have been a skit she brought to the show with her, where the original material did the f-bombs instead of “frickin”. Regardless of that slip, that skit was a one-dimensional, one-trick pony that didn’t deserve to be a skit. Whoever thought that was funny?
Megan I thought did fine even though they gave her NOTHING to work with except for multiple skits where she was just cast as the “hot” one.
HORRIBLE Digital Shorts (the first was funny until the crap-out conclusion).
U2 (or more specifically Bono) need to realize the show isn’t about them. 3 SONGS? Really? And, Bono, stop moving around like your gestures are awe-inspiring and captivating. Despite your mad success, you’re not – and have never been – “cool”.
Even though they are apparently not firing the new girl for her slip (man, was she lucky to have slipped up past the time where FCC could have fined them!!), I don’t see her getting past the “Featured” status. Some cast members can take a single joke and stretch it for a whole skit; she does not have that ability.
When will Lorne Michaels finally give this show the axe. It hasn’t been good since the mid ’90s with Farley and Sandler.
Any ratings news for “Sit Down Shut Up”?
I don’t get your joke, Ron.
Nkinsey, I don’t think it was a joke by Ron. But if I missed that, or sarcasm on your part, I apologize! SDSU is airing on FOX Saturday nights (around midnight, I think), but I didn’t see any #s for it…
SNL, to paraphrase Krusty the Klown, is a real garbage heap.
OH! Gotcha. I didn’t know they were airing those until Wanda’s show started.