Please note that the true numbers for last night will be available from Nielsen on Thursday with the rest of the late night numbers but here is some info on the premiere of The Wanda Sykes Show directly from FOX based on the metered market info from the largest (56) metered markets:
- WANDA's premiere posted a 2.2/5 in the meters in the 11p-12am hour
- That significantly improves upon FOX's performance last Fall with MadTV in the timeslot -- up +16% from MadTV's average meters in 4Q08 (1.9/4)
- In addition, it beat Spike Feresten's average by 100% in the 11pm timeslot this past winter (1.1/2)
Here are a few examples of other late-night premieres this season in the meters:
- Conan (P) 1.9/5 (WANDA up +16%)
- Fallon (P) 1.1/4 (WANDA up +100%)
- Kimmel (P) 1.4/5 (WANDA up +64%)
I haven't seen Last night's Saturday Night Live with Taylor Swift drew a season high 5.0 household rating in the metered markets. For most of the season SNL has been doing around a 4.6 to 4.8 household rating range in the metered market ratings for original episodes from 11:30p-1a. An encore (repeat) telecast last Saturday with Ryan Reynolds and Lady Gaga averaged a 3.2 metered market rating.
i wonder if Lady Gaga will get good ratings for Gossip Girl? she’s premiering a new album on the show and will appear in it monday after next
“Please note that the true numbers for last night will be available from Nielsen on Thursday with the rest of the late night numbers”
-So would you have data from past weeks on “Sit Down Shut Up” (airs after the 11pm FOX show?
It’s good that there’s finally a new show on a Saturday, but I’m not sure if this show will continue to do that great. But if this is successful, fox might be setting the standard for Saturdays. Btw, thanks for putting mobile version back! It’s working great on my iPhone!
Ron, no I wouldn’t. But if it makes you feel any better, it wasn’t available until this past Thursday
sit down shut up must get like a 0.2/2 at 11 cause no one watched from the start at 8 30
I missed the premiere!! I really wanted to watch. I be sure to catch it next saturday though.
The only time I ever saw any promotion for Sit Down Shut Up was at the end of the World Series game last Saturday. And Joe Buck was kind of making fun of the title.
MISS Wanda,
she and her comedic writers put together a hilarious update comedy hour. i was literally laughing my ass off and out of my chair. that is hard for me just as it is for Daryll “Chill”(who was on the first show). he, too lives in wheelchair and i happen to be a double below knee amputee. your show made me laugh like i haven’t in many a year. i just had my 58th surghery. the one that i am looking for is a penial reduction. that is the true reason i use a wheelchair. it is to heavy. LOL
but, seriously my leg and spine injuries are neurologicial and very complicated. i have never or would i never say what i am about to say right now in front of a child. i just wanted to make that clear. i just had to put that “reduction” to spice things up and your eyes open. believe me or not i get people believing that one and my all time favorite. SHARK BITE. They say, “really i do” and then i go into long drawn out detail orientated story and then i have them hooked i let them go and they feel like i just PUNK’d them. it is fun for both and it breaks the ice between us.
i am a true believer in freedom of choice. example: i happen to be heterosexual, but my best friend is very over, the top half shirt, mesh everything and i mean everything and i left out a bit piece of him. he is evangelical preacher and the church knows and no one cares.
he knows that there are some things in the “BIBLE” that happen to cross and not make his lessons and he never talk about entitlements.
WANDA, YOU KEEP IT GOING BECAUSE YOU HAVE WHAT HAS BEEN MISSING ON TELEVSION AND I AM NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT LATE NIGHT TELEVISIOM. if for some reason the network let’s you (FOX, we talking out you. do i really need to get in to that, do i?)
you are pushing the element that was pushed by two, clean cut, sweater wearing, folk song singing comedy group and that was over 40 years ago. of course, i am talking about THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS. they pushed or a better adjective is “PUNCHED” out the what was relevant in the days of Vietnam War, Draft dodging, black panthers, drugs and our so called political adversaries. When they saw BULLSHIT. They spoke out and said this is BULLSHIT.
the t.v. executives got nervous and that was their way of shutting them up. did they? no except their show was over, but living in U.S.A. enables something in this country that you can’t do in others. the first amendant- FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Wandra, i am going to keep a close eye on every saturday at 11pm to make sure you keep doing what needs to be done. shaking things up. there are a lot comediennes out there who shake an audience up and that is how they feel afterwards, driving their car, going home and that is it. i am tired of doing that. you are the one who will change this. you a voice that needs to be listened to. you make fun, but then you sneak in a life lesson and some wise advice. to find this all person’s within earshot can come away with more than what they came in with.
Thank you Wanda Sykes for what you do because it makes a difference. By the way this the first admirier letter i have ever written. (i don’t say fan. fan is a shorten word for FANATIC. i am very sane just ask my counselor and psychiatrist. people may find laugther in that, ok laugh it release endorphines and makes you happy and healthy. i am working on being the best me that i can be. many many ghosts that are in my closet. no, there is not any homosexuality. just terrors from childhood and always being the ideal man as boyfriend and then husband, twice married. i lose myself by making the others happy and never any reciprication. someday i will meet my someone and we will love, communicate, have honesty, truth, companionship and intimacy. i mean hugging, touching (i mean stroking her hair), kissing, hand holding and love making as well.
“WANDA YOU F*CK ROCK, GIRL”
I’ve been watching SDSU; I’m trying to figure out how they expected to air last night’s episode during primetime – it was funny, but definately crossed a few lines. Were the episodes changed once the new airtime was determined?
CAn I Please have Legend of the seekers numbers?
I was really excited about Wanda Sykes, but it was pretty boring.
TVmegafan, sorry they aren’t available yet. More explanation here:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/11/08/legend-of-the-seeker-fans-sorry-but-it-will-be-a-while-before-the-ratings-are-available/32962
100% less funny than Spike Ferensten. 20% more cancellable than MADTV.
I just watched about 10 minutes of Wanda.
it was the same I love Obama jokes She has told many times before.
I switched over to a tribute to Bill Cosby on Public TV.
Mad TV was funny and I would rather have that but its fun
to see Ms Wanda on Fox. She works about as hard as Jay Leno.
Everywhere you turn she seems to be on Tv maybe that is why
I seemed to have heard her jokes over and over.
The best comedy show Sat nite had to be a Joan Rivers show set
in England-she was at her best.
I like SDSU I wish I knew what the numbers were!!!
SNL hit a season high 5.0 rating:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3iec91181b3bb41981deff47322c4cbed2
Taylor Swift is really a draw for SNL.
What are the total viewers average for SNL and MadTV before?
I love Wanda Sykes…she is one of the funniest comediennes on tv! However, her Fox premiere show last night “REALLY SUCKED”!!! I really expected to see more comedy from her! I was really disappointed!!! It was as bad as, watching a show on CNN!!! I realize she supports OBAMA, but why “ram it down our throats” with a several minute monologue with “NON-STOP” OBAMA comments about how GOOD he is doing!!! Come on, all OBAMA has done is SPEND…SPEND…SPEND…”OUR” money!!! Remember the Bank bailouts & the auto bailouts??? How many MORE years are our US troops going to be at war with the idiots in Iraq and Afghanistan??? I wish someone would pay for my “DATE NIGHT” in New York City!!! How much “TAXPAYER” money do you think OBAMA is going to spend in 4 years on going to the movies or out to dinner OR on VACATION??? I didn’t vote for the “jack-ass”!!!!! Wanda will be lucky to make it 3 more shows, if her style of comedy continues to be the same as last night’s show!!! Her only grace is that there is nothing else on, except for the “TIRED OLD NBC show” SNL!!!! How about a good movie on Saturday night instead of this “CRAP”!!!!
I like Wanda in Old Christine, I’m glad her work with that show is not affected with her new talk show on Fox.
It looks like glenn has lost his battle with schizophrenia.