Would House be better if it had just stayed the same for 6 years, at some point he has to of covered every medical mystery that would be important enouth to have a team of the 4 best doctors in the country covering it.

For better or worse House is a show that keeps you wondering what will happen from week to week, and it could of easily just been another Law and Order

But House never used to be susceptible to those kinds of things. It lost 25% of its viewers over last season and while the House-centric premier brought many back, they’ve been steadily dropping back down ever since. Even last week the overall viewership was the lowest its been since season 1. The show is living on the demo ratings.

House still brings in viewers but many have now become a soft audience rather than hard-core viewers, more willing to flip to something else, and that’s probably a result of the direction the show has taken in the last 2 seasons. And many people who were hanging in hoping the show would go back to what it had been finally gave up when Cameron was booted out.

One of the reasons Lie To Me isn’t doing better is because House no longer has the power to bring to the next show the kind of audience it did in previous seasons.

“Cameron leaving has nothing to do with the weaker numbers for House – the fans are not pleased with the general direction of the show,right now.”

Cameron’s leaving is all about the general direction of the show right now. It moved from a medical procedural with character development right into bad soap opera. Cameron was a character suited for the medical stories than the bisexual/dying/hawt Thirteen or the badly written House/Cuddy drama. Also, Cameron was much more popular than her replacement, Thirteen, and the old team more interesting than the new one.

The producers spent 2 years ignoring what the fans were telling them. I thought House’s numbers might go down but not this much. Looks like more than just Cameron’s fans are giving up on the show.

Next week’s episode of House is going to be about Wilson. They would have done better to run that one for Sweeps instead since Wilson is much more popular than Huddy or the Thirteen/Foreman team.

I can see this show getting even better if it can get enough of a ratings footing to have the confidence to continue being different.

As for the overall viewers, which I know matter very little (but I also know matter at least somewhat), any show hitting double digits in that department right now is a rare bird indeed. While the overall viewer number matters almost not all in terms of generating sales revenue, it does matter quite a bit when trying to decide if a show has growth potential, because the more people watching a show means the more people talking about a show to others. That means a greater chance of newer viewers coming on board after hearing good word of mouth, which seems to be what has happened to this show the past two months.

And, yes, I know that ABC Studios is not the same as ABC Network, but I also know that doesn’t matter near as much to these giant conglomerates as people think it does. To ABC/Disney it is all bottom line money. Unless they have another in-house show that they feel will do better, or a non in-house show that they think will do much better, Castle is coming back next season. ABC has too many holes to fill thanks to the expected collapses of V and FF.

Of course, that assumes the ratings do not drop, which I obviously feel they will not do. Castle is exactly the type of easy buy in show that networks should keep around a little longer before they pull the plug, because that fact makes it a show that can grow. FF, V, Lost, those shows simply cannot experience growth after a certain point, because it’s impossible to lure new viewers to a show that requires you to have seen every episode so far produced. Castle is the exact opposite. You can jump in at any time.

And, yeah, I watch it. It’s the only procedural I do watch. I almost bailed on it after a couple of poor outings earlier this season, but I stuck with it because of my man crush on The Fillion. It’s still not anything close to a great show, but it wisely uses comedy to keep me coming back. They have done an especially nice job in that regard with the supporting cop characters, who have become much more quirky and amusing the longer the show has been on the air. I thought last night was a particularly good example of that, and of how they are trying mightily to overcome the limitations of their genre. Who did it wasn’t really the focus as much as was trying to figure out what-in-the-hell really happened. The plot wasn’t particularly surprising or believable, but it was played well for laughs with every twist and turn. How many shows can turn a murder investigation into good comedy? And how many shows even bother to try?

And the final line of the night had me laughing out loud, which I rarely do when watching anything as I get older.

Everybody thinks Castle made on its own but its not! It garnered a 2.7 because of its lead-in show Find my Family

Also great news about Castle, hope it stays doing so well (comparatively), Nathan Fillion deserves a great show.

Castle
- 10.305 million viewers
- 6.6/11 HH
- 2.7/7 A18-49

Can it continue to do that? I don’t know but it passed it’s first big test.

Find My Family, wow, it’s also successful in the states, it’s huge here in Aus, but then again, we are gradually cutting down scripted TV shows these days, and just throw them into our new nosebleeds channels we have.

I don’t understand how one could claim that the large loss in House’s numbers had absolutely nothing to do with the departure of Cameron. It was the largest single drop since the season premiere.

Out of the three major events that occurred in last week’s episode (the other two being the resurgence of House, the jerk, and the return of 13 & Taub), that was the one most likely to lose viewers.

With Bang Doing so well, I’m guessing this means The Mentalist gets the Superbowl slot, since BBT is doing extremely well.

…plus it has a problem all shows with young children that aren’t cancelled quickly have – Jake is no longer half a man, so how will Chuck Lorre handle that? Odds are, he’ll fail rather miserably.

Hey – nobody mentioned Jay! Hip, hip…meh

Accidentally – CBS aired a condensed version of Three Rivers at 8:30 on Monday next week, and nobody noticed Worst Week? A jugggernaut by comparison

I doubt it will keep the higher ratings over the year.

WOW. at Castle. and wow at Heroes.

As for Castle, we all knew it would hold it’s own and despite the few naysayers left who still knock it’s more gentle procedural tendencies, it’s not like ABC’s other shows are doing any better. V had a strong pilot and is falling even before it’s long break for the winter olympics. FlashForward had a strong pilot and is falling faster than V with cries of boring plotlines. I’d be amazed if either were renewed for 2010-11. The only real worry on the ABC horizon is Cougar Town because of Courteney Cox’s “private family matter” as I would have said that was as much a lock as Modern Family. Bottom line – Castle will back for a third season on merit although the naysayers will spin that as “ABC’s other shows are tanking in the ratings and Castle isn’t, so if it ain’t broke…”

I’m happy for heroes!

Whatever site I have it confused with, they must have accurately predicted it would even be given this current season. And my bad. It wasn’t the third episode. It was the sixth. The one that was a series low. It really didn’t do well that week at all. It’s fairly unusual for a show to lose audience almost every week its first 2 months on the air and then grow right back to where it was when it started. Although I’m sure that’s probably because most of the shows that lose audience almost every week their first 2 months don’t get a chance to grow back the viewers they lost.

As for the comments that CBS should move “The Big Bang Theory,” what, they haven’t moved it enough? By the time that show ends its run, it’s going to be the first sitcom since “Newhart” to have regularly-aired in every single half hour on CBS’ Monday lineup. They should move it to 9:00. No, they should move it to 8:00. Oh, wait, now should they move it at 8:30. Shaddup.