Comments on: Wanda Sykes Show Ratings Down 14% From Debut

By: candy d

candy d — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:01:04 +0000

wanda looks scripted & is so obviously reading, comedic timing off-ALOT, the 2 assistants have a lot 2 B desired, Wanda-is hilarious on Christine & Curb, her HBO special-luv it, wheres all that on her talk show???

By: jim

jim — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:46:40 +0000

Also some of her material was old and out dated,I had seen her do it before. She has to keep it fresh, forget the George Bush jokes, it’s been a year.

By: jim

jim — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:37:54 +0000

I think people are expecting her show to be like Leno or Letterman, and you can’t built an audience for that type of show one night a week. You don’t get enough of a chance to adjust for bits that bomb or just aren’t funny.The public tunes out and has no reason to come back.

By: Traz

Traz — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:09:03 +0000

I agree, I lover Wanda, but after watching episodes 1-3, it seems like the guy gotta go. The awkward moments after making a failed joke. Sometimes Wanda misread joke lines, but she rebounds with the next subject. The Dirnk segment I love. I just hope its real alcohol. I myself take a lil bit from hour to hour, but yea that’s it.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:03:35 +0000

I wanted very much for Wanda to have a great show but the truth is that it just is not funny.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:35:05 +0000

It’s obvious Wanda Sux is only on TV to force a certain agenda. She is about as funny as a case of explosive diarrhea in a crowded subway. She is a tool, much as certain regimes the world over use to indoctrinate the weak minded. Like the terrorist mouse on Palestinian TV. The media manipulators have been trying to squeeze her into our living rooms in several different shows, but like a bad skin graft, it never takes. And what’s with her five-head? that huge dome should be rented for advertising. I hope She’s the one who gets cancer.

By: Rock Strongo

Rock Strongo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:48:23 +0000

Thx Rob! And a bonus question: why do they not bother putting the million tally in these pr soundbites? Why I am supposed to be more dazzled with 1.9 rating than with 2.2 million?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:43:56 +0000

I’m not sure how many it represented in just the metered markets, but if the 1.9 rating held against the entire population of TV viewing households it would = 1.9 percent of 114.9 million households or roughly 2.2 million households,

By: Rock Strongo

Rock Strongo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:39:07 +0000

How many millions of households is a 1.9 metered-market household rating?

By: Cody

Cody — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:30:34 +0000

Plus FNS needs a morning show lead in to be competitive.

By: Cody

Cody — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:29:54 +0000

Yeah like I watch FNS because i don’t have Fox News. (Economy hit us hard) I would love to have something on FOX NEWS on FOX

Sunday
Glen Beck

Monday
Brett Baier

Tuesday
Shep Smith

Wedensday
O’reilly

Thrusday
Hannity

Friday
Greta

Saturday
Huckabee

That’s there entire evening line up there

By: Scratchy

Scratchy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:32:32 +0000

I watched the first episode and turned it off because it was just not funny (the round table was horrendous). I like Wanda, but enough with the constant political viewpoint crap. We get it. You love Obama and you would sleep with the guy if you didn’t like women. Tried watching a 2nd time and couldn’t make it beyond 5 minutes. There is just so little to laugh at. Cancel this mess and bring back MadTV!!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:30:13 +0000

Not a huge drop after the first show. I wish Wanda would focus more on being funny than sharing her political views. I agree with her for the most part but I’m not tuning in to hear political views. Just bring the funny!

By: AniMatsuri

AniMatsuri — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:29:35 +0000

What works and looks good ratings wise on cable doesn’t always work on broadcast. Fox News Sundays from the cable channel broadcasts on the net but I wouldn’t be surprised if local re-broadcasts of high school football on a UHF station got more viewers.

By: cas127

cas127 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:54:08 +0000

Why *doesn’t* Fox bcast reuse material from Fox News?

The material is already paid for and the bcast-only audience has *no* escape from the crypto-lib Big 3 MSM.

For a long time I figured that Simpsons reruns were so insanely profitable on the Fox bcast O&O’s that Fox bcast didn’t want to sacrifice any slots…

But even the Simpsons’ mighty financial machine must be slowing down after 20 years of reairings…

Does Fox News have some contractual limits imposed by their cable distribution partners that would prevent them from using cable originated material on the bcast net?

By: carl

carl — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:34:33 +0000

cody i wholeheartedly agree saturdays and sundays at 12 fox should play highest rated shows on fox news

By: Cody

Cody — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:44:50 +0000

The best late night strategy for FOX would be to air one episode of a FOX NEWS Show at 11 every night. Sunday Beck Monday O’reilly etc… Its already produced making a ton of money and would snag a few extra bucks for FOX broadcasting.

By: Howard Beale

Howard Beale — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:57:29 +0000

It’s one thing to be of a political ideology.

It’s quite another to begin a series trashing an opponent over long eyelashes. Bizarre, not the slightest bit funny. Lost a lot of viewers over pushing her personal trash on America.

No one wants to watch Keith Olbermann for comedy relief either. Wanda turned herself into a joke.

By: Charles Ferrell

Charles Ferrell — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:51:17 +0000

Wasn’t Wanda Sykes the one at the White House Correspondents Dinner who said she hopes Rush Limbaugh has kidney failure? I’m not going to watch someone who engages in hate talk.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:25:16 +0000

I <3 Oprah (or at least her ratings!). And if I was into logo-wear, I’d wear the T-Shirt:

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/11/10/syndicated-ratings-top-25-oprah-still-the-number-one-talker/33326

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:10:43 +0000

You people are so pathetic with your constant pushing of male late night talk shows. You have TALKED UP Lopez tonight and all late talk shows, that actually have very few viewers, and ignored any female talk show that has many more viewers. Oprah, Ellen, The View, have MANY more viewers than most late night male talk shows.

You have very obviously been as negative as possible to Wanda Sykes, and have only given an obviously reluctant brief piece about it. You have chosen your words to make her show look bad, emphasizing the 14% drop from the premiere. All shows drop from the premiere.

Wandas show got more people than Lopez tonight (but you won’t quote directly comparable figures so that people can see that) and more than many late night shows, but you cannot bring yourself to acknowledge this can you. Your politics and sexism is showing loud and clear.

By: mark-allen

mark-allen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:04:33 +0000

watched the first two and think it is a misfire…won’t go out of my way to watch it again.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:40:10 +0000

I’m not surprised. I watched the first two episodes and while there were some funny moments, there wasn’t enough for me to return.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:16:37 +0000

50% of her show is MUST see
50% of her show is fast forward.

I love her views and I think that she will grow more comfortable.

She needs to get rid of the black guy on the show… NOT FUNNY.
Cross dresser is funny.

And her guests don’t talk enough, not given enough time. She would be great if she had some segments as long as Bill Maher…

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:56:58 +0000

I’m a huge fan too, but this is just not something that is a good fit for Saturday Night late night. Watching a panel discussion is not really what folks are in the mood for – even if they are drinking…

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:34:49 +0000

uh oh…im a HUGE wanda sykes fan…but can never catch her talk show on saturday nights…if it continues to slip under mad tv’s numbers im sure we wont be seeing wanda for too long.