annoying, nasty and extremely unlikable…

thus continues my love/hate relationship with this wicked little show…

I believe the lineup on Thursday then was something like:
Friends
Single Guy
Seinfeld
Frasier (though I could be off about this one?)
ER

There are four other NBC shows in the top 20 that were not on Thursday night. They were definitely the most dominant on Thursdays, but they had plenty of successes elsewhere.

why would a 4th placer network cancel the only new show that actually rate average in viewers?

dont you guys actually think that nbc only care for 18-49 share?

They have several shows lined-up to come in mid-season:
Parenthood, Persons Unknown, The Marriage Ref, Celebrity Apprentice, 100 Questions and of course, Chuck.

What is with all of the 30 Rock bashing? It’s an absolute hit and any network would love to have it. It doesn’t get a lot of total viewers because the elderly (who pretty much effect the entirety of total viewer numbers) don’t understand the humor. I can’t stand people that say it’s too “inside ballpark”…me and millions of others think 30 Rock is the funniest series on television and we sure don’t work for the entertainment industry…it’s very surreal and if odd-ball/quirky humor isn’t your type of thing, that’s fine. But for those of us that like the weirder moments of programs (say Creed lines on The Office), it’s delectable.

NBC needs to restratigize. Hopefully when Comcast takesover the network will be in a lot better shape in a few years.

I’m just hoping NBC decides they want to keep at least their top freshman show. C’mon, NBC, Community and The Office are the reasons I’m sticking around.

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“I want to check if Community performed better in that time slot than 30 Rock did – but it’s hard to find past thursdays numbers on this site. If it did, then they need to move Community back, ship Parks and Rec and 30 Rock off to Fridays so the ‘critics’ can enjoy the crap out of them, and put Chuck into the Thursday 8pm slot to lead into The Office and Community.”

Community pulled about a 2.9 behind The Office, so a tick lower than 30 Rock, but The Office was a few ticks lower the first three weeks of the season than it is now, so it pretty much balances out. The thing is 30 Rock’s much more established than Community, so it could survive a move out from under The Office – or any timeslot change at all for that matter – much better than Community can/did.

30 Rock does seem to be suffering a bit from the end of the Tina Fey/Sarah Palin effect though, just like SNL is.

Chuck would pull the same 2.0-2.2s that the two half-hour comedies are pulling Thursday at 8:00 now, that wouldn’t be a positive move at all. It would get totally killed by Survivor and Flash Forward, just like the shows already there.

Trauma is leaving a hole on Monday nights and that’s what Chuck is going to fill.

With that said, as long as “Mercy” keeps winning its time slot and staying low-cost and as long as Gail Berman can shut her big fat mouth, it’s probably not going anywhere. I know there isn’t much difference between the two shows’ 18-49 figures, but sometimes, it’s all about cost, expectations, promises to advertisers, and what the network is used to in the time slot. And, you know, keeping Berman in the producer chair and not the network chair, so the plug doesn’t get pulled 5 seconds after the show premieres.

CHUCK

Why not do a quick ‘gut feel’ survey.

Ask contributors to pick their favourite network and then publish the results.

Also I asked before but it may have been missed is there any way to publish the highest rated cable show in each hour with the overnights?

I would be interesting to see if/how often a cable show is killing a network show.

NBC = Nearly Beyond Comical

…presumably, you would count it as five separate shows, for purposes of calculating the index?

I’d be curious to see someone else do that work.

…and it’s better than most reality tripe (not hard, to be certain, but still…)

Trauma – Kelly Brackett has pulled the plug, and Dixie is pulling the sheet over it’s head, while Gage and DeSoto put away the defibrillator – it’s over…

Mercy – basically, it’s the equivalent of Bob Newhart’s character on ER a few seasons ago – terminal, but about a season’s worth of life left. Here’s hoping a miracle occurs – but only if Greg Pratt is the attending, not Robert Romano…

Law and Order – if it makes it to another season, NBC won’t need a show about the undead. Who was the actor in “Angel” – could he be a new cop next season

Parks and Recreation – repeat after me – “…I am a comedy, and I will not be canceled this season, because I am not “Worst Week”, and I am not on CBS…” Sure, Worst Week had better ratings, but this network would be better off if it were the National Biscuit Company

Community – Three words to keep the show safe – “judicious stunt casting”…

Heroes – Maybe Quiznos could do product placement on the show? Better if they created a show called “Grinders” – reach the 18-34′s, maybe? No matter how I look at it, Heroes is in a bit more danger than its index indicates – not red, but a bit orange…

30 Rock – How about a show within a show, starring Alec Baldwin in Hululand (his Hulu commercial during the Super Bowl was the second best Super Bowl commercial of all time, imo – Tabasco’s mosquito was just better…)? It could only help…

The Office – If Steve Carrell admitted to sexually abusing Elisabeth Smart, and setting up the Henne family whilst seducing the wife, maybe NBC would cancel it – there’s no way it will fall below 1.00, so it’s a lock for next season unless the unthinkable occurs

SVU – some pay cuts, perhaps 5 percent, wouldn’t hurt – but it’s safe enough for now.

I’m basically sure they own’t cancel Community. Despite the numbers, it is their top performing freshman show this fall. Mercy is the top performing new drama, as bad as it’s doing.

If they end up cancelling all of their new fall shows, they’ll look even worse.

Parks & Rec is their only survivor from last season’s disastrous line-up of new shows, but I don’t know if that will do anything to help it now.