It's "Worrying Wednesday" but the shows I'm pacing the floor about aren't much different than last week. Besides, I didn't even need to look at the Renew/Cancel Index to be worried about these results from Tuesday night:
Melrose Place (9pm)
- 1.383 million viewers
- 1.0/2 HH
- 0.7/2 A18-49
- 1.0/3 A18-34
- 1.3/4 W18-34The Game (10pm)
- 1.455 million viewers
- 1.0/2 HH
- 0.7/2 A18-49
- 1.4/4 W18-34The Game (10:30pm)
- 1.519 million viewers
- 1.0/2 HH
- 0.8/2 A18-49
- 1.4/4 W18-34hat tip to our friend "Travis Yanan"
So, a show that CW canceled is doing better in reruns on BET, even in the hallowed W18-34 demographic, than an original episode of Melrose Place on the CW.
Worry amongst yourselves....
are you serious? thats just pathetic
She should be worried.
She should start thinking about targeting male viewers for once, since females are more likely to watch a male oriented show than for males to watch a female oriented show.
My suggestion to her: Air sports. That will help the network in the long run.
CW was very stupid to cancel The Game.
Ha, that’s kinda awesome.
this woman has a job still how??
I love it! The Game was a solid performer and shouldn’t have been canceled in the first place.
Having said that, too bad about Melrose. I actually think the show is pretty decent.
Will this help those rumors of BET possibly reviving The Game? With the big launch of The MoNique Show, BET should seriously consider this as their time to dip into more original scripted programming.
BET picked up The Game for new episodes.
http://www.s2smagazine.com/entertainment/news/2009/1008/Exclusive-BET-picks-up-The-Game
this is so sad, they should have kept this show, and the last i checked, EHC was doing about the same on Nick at Nite as well
who is worse…. Dawn Ostroff or Ben Silverman?
Why can’t the CW start airing sports or something? i think that can help the network on the long run in ratings.
I call this poetic justice. If I’m remembering correctly didn’t Everybody Hates Chris get better ratings for TV land on its debut airing than it did on the CW.
I can only hope that if BET does air new episodes of the Game those episodes get better ratings than the CW.
CW’s ‘narrowcasting” was really a bad idea, yes it was okay if the 18-34 Women demo is prime target but it should not be the ONLY target since they are not a cable channel anyway. They should have worked out how to maximize their male-skewing shows (Smallville,Supernatural and formerly Reaper and Smackdown) and the African-American sitcoms rather than dumping them (save for Smallville and Supernatural). Plus they really need a show to appeal to a wider demographic, The WB had 7th Heaven, I know a lot of people was not a fan of that show but 7th Heaven. When they have those kind of shows it would help them gain more exposure in return more people will be aware of their other shows.
Oh well whining about CW’s decisions is getting tiresome haha. But for the record, I don’t want them to close shop eventually, I want them to rise but I think it will only happen when a new management takes over for that network.
If Melrose gets canceled before the season ends, is there any chance Smallville might be moved into it’s slotrather than the Friday night graveyard?
Seriously time for Dawn Ostroff to go but in answer to who’s worse her or Silverman, I’d have to say Silverman. When you consider how NBC dominated Thursday nights in the past with Friends, ER even Will and Grace to the endless number of terrible shows that now dominate the screen, he takes the biscuit… At least the CW is reaching most of its target audience and they actually have a hit in Vampire Diaries. Unfortunately NBC can’t say that at all…
Just a shot in the dark here, but I’m not sure that the prevalent reaction amongst this site’s readers will be to worry about this news.
In a slightly related question:
Have you given any consideration to “Celebratory Saturdays”?
That’s pretty bad being that BET doesn’t get that good of ratings…
What, me worry? Nah… laughing is more my reaction. In a way I hope they keep Dawn at the Crushed Weekly network so I can look forward to more laughs at their expense. I admit that is mean-spirited, but frankly, the way she and the rest of the alleged management allegedly runs that network invites ridicule. Seriously, when are the folks who hired her and the rest of the “management” going to finally realize that Dawn long ago found the iceberg and the ship has been going down since?
Two Words..Body Politic. Enuff said.
NBC was already fourth when Silverman took over, so all of it cannot be put on his shoulders. Plus he helped bring The Office to America, and he helped keep Friday Night Lights on the air. Cut the guy a break sometimes.