Re: TV Ratings (Thursday 24th September)

[Othello]

Can someone please tell me why do nearly 4 million people watch The Vampire Diaries ?

It's actually a half decent show. Not great but certainly not horrible. I find Ian Sommerholder to be quite good as the villian vampire.

 

[sidious618]

From what I hear, Fringe is committing the worst sin; it's getting dull.

No, it's not.

 

[Mr Light]

I've always found Fringe to be mostly dull with occasional moments of interest, and LOST is my favorite show of the past five years.

 

[Jax]

I won't be around to post friday night ratings later so can anyone else post them ? no point in giving friday its own thread so just slap them in here.

cheers

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Work to impress us, you bastards!

That comment seems to contradict:

Fringe is faltering badly - I gave up on that one after the premiere - is the storyline not interesting? I'd heard they were developing a mytharc for it.

The DO work to impress us with some great writing and a good cast and you still leave! THEY CAN'T WIN!!

I left a long time ago. The actors they cast so completely failed to grab me in the premiere - and the premise fell flat - to such an extent that the writing is irrelevant. They can win, but they need to get everything at least semi-right to keep me around. Casting, premise, writing, it's all got to be up to snuff or I'm gone. In other words, work VERY hard to impress ME, you bastards.

And yes, I still watch Heroes. Which demonstrates that my standards are far from impossible.

I can't imagine Pacey being as charismatic a lead as Duchovny was.

He. Isn't. A young Duchovny-type actor in that role would have vastly increased the odds of me sticking around.

Why the hell did FOX move Fringe away from Tuesday? And what in the world made them think putting it up against both Grey's and CSI was a good idea?

Fox has to air something against Grey's and CSI, and the best thing would be a cult show with a staunchly loyal audience that will follow it wherever it goes. Maybe they thought that describes Fringe - it's got all the earmarks of a cult show - but I guess they judged wrong. They certainly would not want to move a middling non-cult show into a tough time slot.

It's actually a half decent show. Not great but certainly not horrible. I find Ian Sommerholder to be quite good as the villian vampire.

Somerhalder is fun, but he needs a different show. The rest of the cast is a bore and the premise is really geared to a certain type of teenage girl - even when I was a teenage girl, I wouldn't have much cared about a vampire high school soap.

I'm boycotting all things vampire till someone finally puts a Dark Shadows remake on TV.

 

[Starbreaker]

From what I hear, Fringe is committing the worst sin; it's getting dull.

No, it's not.

Yes it is. It's lost all it's momentum from last season's finale. It's like it's trying to start all over again with freak of the week episodes.

 

[Captain Shaw]

Fox has to air something against Grey's and CSI, and the best thing would be a cult show with a staunchly loyal audience that will follow it wherever it goes. Maybe they thought that describes Fringe - it's got all the earmarks of a cult show - but I guess they judged wrong. They certainly would not want to move a middling non-cult show into a tough time slot.

If they wanted a cult show i wonder how badly Dolls house would have done.

 

[nx1701g]

^ Probably 1 viewer.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

Yes it is. It's lost all it's momentum from last season's finale. It's like it's trying to start all over again with freak of the week episodes.

Which is what my favorite little genre show, SPN, got away from doing. It's heavily mytharc with an occasional sprinkling of freak of the week. SPN got three very charismatic leads in Ackles, Padalecki, and Misha Collins (formerly Alexis whatshisname the villain from 24). You gotta have a charismatic lead for genre in particular. Or at least someone besides Pacey. The other two guys on Fringe were better, IMO.

I've sampled Dollhouse. I think it's a much, much better show than Fringe.

 

[bigdaddy]

Umm.... someone did post Fridays.

 

[Jax]

Umm.... someone did post Fridays.

Just noticed it now, didn't spot it earlier due to different thread title. Deleted my post and hopefully I will get sunday night up later (ratings up in 30 mins only at mo from my sources, I prefer 60 ones).

 

[sidious618]

Yes it is. It's lost all it's momentum from last season's finale. It's like it's trying to start all over again with freak of the week episodes.

I liked the first episode a lot and I'm enjoying watching Olivia putting it all back together so I guess I'll still have to disagree.

 

[Angel4576]

Supernatural need not worry at this rate about wether or not to continue the show into a 6th season.

The current ratings would probably be enough to get it a 6th season.

The CW has far bigger problems than Supernatural, such as Melrose Place, 90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill etc.