If you were to run a 4 week average of shows last season, ending before the finales, would you still get 0.92 as the indication of a danger zone?

Thanks for making this site even more like crack for me

But what you can check easily, and what may prove me wrong, is what the actual numbers were for the other nets during those two weeks. Where there overall weekly averages down during the WS or not? If they were, then you check which shows aired against the WS and see if their numbers were up or down. Then we would know.

One thing we know for certain, however, is that just saying it has absolutely nothing to do with it proves nothing. It’s just an opinion, based on no facts whatsoever. Or at least no facts that you cited to back it up. Sort of a Finke-like statement actually.

If nothing else, this index tells us how much stronger or weaker scripted TV is than other programs on each network at holding onto viewers.

Quote from ew,com article:

“…It turns out Find My Family is already a hit in a bunch of English-speaking countries, and has been operating an international people-finding organization as powerful as the U.N. for over 20 years. According to this international promo, “It’s safe to say that if Find My Family can’t find a lost person, they’ve probably vanished from the face of the earth.” Whoa!”

I’m not saying that is so, Bill. I’m just wondering. You would have to compare this set of four week averages to the same period of time over the last handful of season to know for certain, but it could just be that viewership in general rises slightly the deeper we get into autumn, in which case some of these improvements might be very misleading.

In other words, the improvements might just be because everything normally improves X amount at this time of the year. If that is so, then we have to look at whether the improvement over the last four weeks is more or less than the improvement should be.

That might be impossible for you to calculate with the data you have, but I thought it was a possibility worth throwing out there.

Or am I totally off base?

CBS – maybe no big football overruns the last 4 weeks? Other than that, I don’t know why everything would be up – their only reality is Survivor, Race, and 60 minutes so unless they dropped off big time, it seems odd all CBS scripted is up.

ABC – likely a combination of some of their shows really dropping off from their early weeks more than others and also DWTS being low so their mondays and tuesdays were likely down the last 4 weeks.

CW – not really sure why all scripted is up. Either Model is significantly down and/or the Friday encores slid and made everything else look better.

Thanks for posting this! Cool to look at. I agree also though that it might get a bit too confusing or may be too difficult to have meaning with shows on different repeat cycles. But still great to see!

The ratings average for V (which might only include TWO airings since the above is through last week) stayed the same, but what it was divided by changed.

Looking at NBC’s carnage, I can see both getting renewed actually. They’ve got enough holes as it is.

They both do about the same as Old Christine and Gary Unmarried and CBS seems fine with those, so.

Just kidding, Bill. Mostly.

It seems like everything at NBC is up, which suggests not so much that the shows have improved recently, but that NBC is softer as a whole in recent weeks.