Sunday Cable Ratings: NBA Playoffs + 'Game of Thrones', 'The Client List', 'Army Wives,' 'Khloe & Lamar', 'Mad Men' + More

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1. hello

   Posted May 8, 2012 at 9:35 AM

   Wow, Young Justice is really popular among adults 18-49.
   Is a 3rd season of Killing really necessary?

2. Epicfail037

   Posted May 8, 2012 at 9:48 AM

   Yikes! Victorious took a HUGE hit here! I didn’t expect it to do too well because of The Avengers, but not even 3 or even 2.5 million?! Not a good sign!

3. avatar

   Posted May 8, 2012 at 9:49 AM

   I’m so glad AMC put their eggs in whiny Weiner’s basket of lies for a show that far more people talk about than watch while hosing Walking Dead and almost Breaking Bad, the best show on TV, in the process. Good luck, Weiner – hope your show can beat an SVU repeat next week.

4. Paul

   Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:06 AM

   Frankly, I’m surprised there are 700,000 people in this country who can stomach an entire 30 minutes of ‘Girls’.

5. Nick

   Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:06 AM

   @Anthony: Wilson Phillips had 158K viewers at 9 PM with a .05 A18-49 rating.

   @SV: Mexican Made Easy brought in just 591K viewers to go along with a .14 A18-49. It only beat the early morning programs before it.

   @Stefan: I’m not sure if those numbers are available as of now. If they are, I don’t yet have access.

6. I Love the Farm

   Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:10 AM

   2.308 viewership and 0.7 demo.

   I promised last week that if the royal POS Mad Man somehow managed to top these mediocre numbers from its previous episode and stop its season-long, week-by-week decline, I would not be back. But of course the POS delivered on its legacy of FAIL and I am back.

   First off, I want to thank Bob for his September 2009 posting on the question of whether Mad Man is worth it for AMC: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/09/01/is-mad-men-worth-it-for-amc/26024/. This posting provided useful insight, and yes, I do agree that Mad Man was worth it…BACK THEN.

   When The Walking Dead (TWD) Season 2 premiere aired on October 16, 2011, AMC stock (AMCX) was trading at 32.55. Thanks largely to TWD’s off-the-charts ratings performance, AMCX climbed up all the way to 43.80 by the show’s season finale on March 18, 2012. In other words, TWD helped make AMC more valuable by more than one-third, an increase in market value of $655 million. In the few short weeks since the Mad Man took over the ultra-critical (for AMC) Sunday 10 PM slot, AMCX has continually declined to 40.36, an 8% reduction in market value or $200 million! TWD giveth, the royal POS taketh away.

   Now comes news that DISH Network is dropping AMC like a bad habit. Say what you will about the circumstances of that announcement, but no way would it have happened while TWD was on the air.

   Mad Man is fine if AMC is a $0.23- or $0.24-per-subscriber-per-month network. But if Josh Sapan is going to continue yacking to the public, the cable and satellite operators, and the markets that his network is worth three times that, then he better cancel the money-losing royal POS Mad Man and take good care of the ONE franchise he has going, The Walking Dead.

   Now watch those who are so impressionable that they think an ad agency is cool respond with NOT-BY-THE-NUMBERS personal attacks on me.

   Time to cancel the royal POS Mad Man. Long live The Walking Dead!

7. AC75

   Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:11 AM

   @Paul

   I’ve never watched this Girls show… what makes it so stomach churning?

8. Weez

   Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:17 AM

   Not surprised to see The Killing continue to fall. It hasn’t been very good, although that’s generally been the case since the middle of the first season.

   Mad Men seems to have totally and completely lost all of the viewers it tried to grab through their absolutely awful marketing campaign that aired with The Walking Dead. Not that it particularly matters, as the show has been really good this season and will continue to bring in the awards for AMC.

   Game of Thrones keeps chugging along, and after this weeks episode I think we’ll begin to see small weekly rises until the finale. Easily the most ambitious show on television, and it deserves all the views that it already gets and more.

   Veep and Girls continue to show why they’re two of the best comedies/dramedies HBO has aired in some time, although the ratings aren’t spectacular for either show (for the initital airings, at least), and it looks like Showtime isn’t seeing much (if any) of an increase for any of their shows despite the fact that the first new episodes that weren’t available OnDemand showed this Sunday (I believe; correct me if I’m wrong as I haven’t gotten around to watching any of them yet). Must be disappointing for them, but at least The Borgias received a third season renewal.

9. Chris

   Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:18 AM

   @Colin–if you didn’t like GOT last Sunday, stop watching GOT. It will only get worse. By which I mean better. So how’s life in the Bizarro World?

10. Chris

    Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:21 AM

    Mad Men has declined from its premiere, as anybody who has been paying attention knew it would. It’s impeccably produced, extremely worthy, and so deadly dull. Why go into such extreme depth about such shallow people?

    I know it’s been amazing some weeks, and I really do respect the work they do, but it’s not the best show on television, and it would be nice if people would stop saying that like it means anything.

11. SarahL

    Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:26 AM

    I think The Killing‘s big mistake was not doing a different mystery every season like the original and most other serial crime dramas. Viewers are bound to feel cheated when they do not get a pay off at the end of the season.

    @I Love the Farm
    LOL! To be fair Mad Men just had a miniscule drop in overall viewers. Regardless, the floor is yours.

12. SV

    Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:30 AM

    @Nick
    Thanks so much, Nick!!! Appreciate it!!!

13. Weez

    Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:40 AM

    @SarahL

    So I see where the whole ‘entertainment value’ factor of @I Love The Farm comes from, although it was kind of lost on me last week. Hard to argue with “the numbers”, but I’m finding some of that information a bit dubious – maybe some citing may have been in order. Regardless, the vitrol and conviction really do shine through in this latest post of his, and while I don’t see what Mad Men has to do with The Walking Dead (a bigger budget isn’t magically going to make the actors or writers any better in TWD), it doesn’t hurt to let him go on with his tirades if only because it’s not as if he’ll actually make any difference and it’s entertaining to read.

14. Kevin

    Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM

    Two things people

    #1 Game of Thrones matters to HBO not only for subscriptions. But free advertising. When you win awards and your show is getting best support actors and nerds are subscribing and word of mouth is making a fantasy show get that many viewers it’s insane good press for HBO. Good Press for HBO gets more 1st time viewers saying “What’s this show about” HBOGO let’s them catch up.

    #2 Mad Men & Breaking Bad, same thing when you win best show and best actor even if they viewers and ratings aren’t great. The press gets more people watching your channel. I mean who knew AMC had shows before Mad men? They won Emmy for best show. I checked it out. That’s why i found out about Breaking Bad and Walking Dead.

    Not everything is about advertising today and right now. It’s about making your band strong. Game of Thrones DVD sales were the best they ever had. Mad Men makes people realize there are shows on AMC.

15. DW

    Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:51 AM

    @ farm. i love your spunk.

16. Chris

    Posted May 8, 2012 at 11:07 AM

    One thing, Kevin.

    GOT gets a lot of acclaim (and a few awards), and as a result, its ratings go UP. Mad Men may well have helped AMC get more attention, but it’s failed to grow its audience in spite of all the acclaim and all the awards in existence, so how can we say, now that Walking Dead is there, that it’s growing AMC’s audience? It isn’t. Not anymore. That’s why AMC has given it a definite endpoint.

    At the end of the day, the audience decides. Not the critics, at least not the ones writing reviews about what’s on right now.

17. SarahL

    Posted May 8, 2012 at 11:15 AM

    @Weez

    I am glad that you come around a bit about I Love The Farm. His posts are staples of the Tuesday cable ratings posts and they really do make me smile and chuckle. I may not agree with his interpretation and events re: Mad Men, but he is not always completely wrong either. In any case, I appreciate that he always apologizes when he gets too personal, an admirable trait.

18. Polar Bear

    Posted May 8, 2012 at 11:17 AM

    @colin

    What?

19. AppleStinx

    Posted May 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM

    The ‘Chopped All-Stars’ final was down from the semifinal of last Sunday. It wasn’t as interesting. The overall quality in the final suffered after Michael Symon got chopped in the appetizer round. I think Jeffrey Saad could have defeated Marcus Samuelsson, the Swedish chef and regular ‘Chopped’ judge. On the positive side, Saad has learned to keep his eyes open and not to squint for the cameras.

20. cal331

    Posted May 8, 2012 at 11:44 AM

    @Chris: “if you didn’t like GOT last Sunday, stop watching GOT. It will only get worse.”

    I didn’t hate it; the show is very well-done. But having just read the book, I feel like very little of what happened past the halfway point of the episode was from the book. I know that adaptation will happen; actions and characters will be omitted, condensed, combined etc. However, this episode just contained way too many departures from the source material to make me love it. In a way, I wish I would have waited till the second series ended to read the second book; it would have increased my enjoyment of the show if I didn’t have the comparisons going through my head all the time.