Tuesday, November 20, 2012

10 Ratings Blurbs 11/20/12 Edition


I spent all evening waiting for something that I probably won't see until tomorrow morning so I refuse to wait and hold up this post any longer. [Full List Here]

1. The New Normal (4.66 million 1.8)- In years past this would be bad, in fact worse than bad because a number like this would signal certain death. Sadly in 2012 and especially on NBC this number is just slightly above average. Yes above average and that’s where you want to be when you have come off of a hiatus and you’re about to go on another one really soon.

2. Marrying The Game (Premiere: 1.662 million 0.9; Episode 2: 1.497 million 0.8)- As I said at Bourgy. I’m not impressed with these numbers. They aren’t awful but they aren’t stellar either. For now they are just acceptable and will basically depend on how Basketball Wives LA does from here (Though I’m aware Family Hustle airs in front of it, Family Hustle will only do as well as Basketball Wives LA does so the whole night is dependant on that show alone).

3. Last Resort (5.68 million 1.2)- It really should be no surprise that this show got canceled. That 1.2 demo on Thursday was actually bested by The Vampire Diaries on The CW (1.3 demo). Anytime a show on ABC, NBC, FOX or CBS has a show that loses to The CW in the demo for the hour they share means the show needs to get canceled. This isn’t a game of ‘How Low Can You Go’.

4. Teen Mom 2 (2.350 million 1.4)- I wasn’t sold on last week’s premiere numbers and this is why. Not saying this is bad but to have lost just over a million viewers and 0.6 in the demo from last week once again reaffirms that MTV’s struggles are universal (I was pleasantly surprised by those Catfish numbers from last night though. I’ll be paying attention to that because it’s probably going to earn a spot on next month’s renewal chances list).

5. Grimm (5.03 million 1.6)- I didn’t pick this show out this week necessarily for ratings purposes. I picked it out because this was the last episode of this show that will air this year and as it stands NBC has not ordered more episodes. I’m not sure how they intend to air the final 10 episodes but there is no scenario available where there won’t be at least one long break (there is no way to reasonably stretch 10 episodes from January to May) and seeing that it’s one of NBC’s bright spots, one has to hold hope that the break (or breaks) won’t devastate the show.

6. Supernatural (2.32 million 1.0)- It must be stressed continually that it is immensely rare that show gets a chance to get moved from Fridays after practically being sent there to die. It is even rarer that the show stages a comeback after being saved from Fridays. While much of the revival can be attributed to the success of Arrow, one must also remember that this is a show in its 8th season and shows that old don’t tend to grow from its previous season.

7. America’s Next Top Model (Finale: 1.34 million 0.6; Clip Show: 710,000 0.2)- I’m not a fan of clip shows. They are pointless (Ok…got that out of the way…again). So I’m not sure what to make of those finale numbers. Sure they are ok for Fridays on The CW but it feels like it’s all I can or should say about it. Now it’s going to be off the air until summer and the future beyond then remains to be uncertain (My guess is if the show has acceptable ratings going forward then The CW will just renew it one cycle at a time as they should have been doing for a while now).

8. Two and a Half Men (13.87 million 4.1)- When this season started it didn’t look like CBS made a good move with pairing it with The Big Bang Theory in favor of strengthening their Monday block. Now the ratings are improving but I’m wondering if the improvements are only because The Big Bang Theory’s numbers are also growing as well. I’m not sold on this show being the standalone powerhouse it once was.

9. Chicago Fire (5.77 million 1.6)- This show is in that precarious position where if you look at only the numbers (not counting last week since it had The Voice as a lead-in) your gut tells you that this is going to be canceled. However when you think about the state of NBC you also think why not give this a chance because it’s not doing THAT bad. Since it will have the winter and spring to prove itself it’s at least getting that chance and right now this show’s stability is working in its favor more than it is hurting it.

10. Total Blackout (694,000 0.3)- I’m not exactly sure what happened here to cause these numbers to go so low but I do know that if tonight’s numbers are similar then it isn’t a fluke and this show will be in some danger.

**Bonus** Rehab With Dr. Drew (446,000 0.2)- These numbers are bad and the last few weeks have been pretty bad too. I don't think this comes back for another season and if it does VH1 is making a mistake. They need to do something about all of these flop Sunday shows because this is basically a year and a half of nothing but failures on this night (except Mob Wives but not including Mob Wives: The Sit Down or Mob Wives: Chicago..those were flops along with the rest).

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dr Drew just won't let his shows die and be buried. He tries to think of new ways in sucking people in to watch others misery. Unless he gets some big names in (or people folks would watch) : Lindsey Lohan, Flavor Flav, Whoppi Goldberg, George W Bush (LOL!), his shows will continue to flop!

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