Comments on: Wednesday October 7 cable ratings: Mythbusters, South Park, Real World / Road Rules: The Ruins and more

By: derek

derek — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:46:57 +0000

@ Christian

- Many challenges have broke 2 million before.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:50:57 +0000

Or maybe if you watch Billy Mays commercials now, you magically teleport 2 your friends house.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:50:11 +0000

Johnthemon – Not sure, maybe Trey and Matt just forgot whose house they were in and were more focused on the story, which was very good.

By: Outlander

Outlander — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:17:16 +0000

1) I’m a little sad that Mythbusters didn’t break 2m viewers in its season premiere. Kinda makes you wonder if it’s beginning to wear out its welcome.

2) I second Chad’s concern about “Ghost Hunters.” It’s a dumb show (and I loved South Park’s parody of it) and it’s pathetic that it’s SyFy’s #1 show. On the other hand, it does air on prime time during the week, and SGU is a Friday night show. Friday always has lower ratings, so it isn’t a fair, “apples to apples” comparison. A more fair comperison is to W13 which, although it aired in the summer and not the fall, did air during a weeknight.

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:38:34 +0000

It’s a bit worrying that Ghost Hunters has done so much better than SGU. SGU is supposed to be “cheap” at one million per episode, but I somehow don’t believe it. SG-1 was reaching 2 million at the end.

By: johnthemon

johnthemon — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:35:16 +0000

@Dan, yeah I did notice that. I was like, “why does cartman have a picture of Kyle’s family on the wall…oh I guess we’re in Kyle’s house…ok”

I wonder if they did that on purpose.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:41:40 +0000

Did anyone else notice that in Dead Celebrities, right before Cartman played the Billy Mays commercial they were at his house, and right after the commercial ended, the boys were at Kyle’s House.

By: johnthemon

johnthemon — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:25:18 +0000

@ Cool, that’s about what it was getting before it went on break. However, the S13 premiere “The Ring” had more than 3 million viewers.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:51:33 +0000

Im surprised South Park didnt do better. Dead Celebrities was one of the best season premieres for South Park.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:16:05 +0000

I can’t remember the last time a challenge broke 2 million! MTV should be sending Wes a gift basket!

By: A.C.

A.C. — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:10:59 +0000

The Ruins is really amazing, those ratings were kind of expected.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:48:53 +0000

Gost Hunters was in South Park. Double win for Comedy Central;)

By: tdot

tdot — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:43:19 +0000

Ghost Hunters

By: cool

cool — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:38:19 +0000

Are those normal numbers for South Park?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:38:19 +0000

Good ratings for RR/RW: The Ruins. Much better than regular Real World ratings if I remember correctly.