TV Ratings (Monday 20th September)

[Jax]

A NEW Season of TV is upon us and already some early indications its not going to be an easy one for the networks...

-Total Viewers:
ABC: 17.72 million, CBS: 11.92, NBC: 8.40, Fox: 7.30, CW: 2.01

-Adults 18-49:
ABC: 4.2 rating/11 share, CBS: 3.8/10, NBC: 2.8/7, Fox: 2.7/7, CW: 1.0/3

ABC

Dancing With the Stars (2 hour) - 21.01 million & 4.9/13

Castle -11.17 million & 2.8/8

CBS

How I Met Your Mother - 8.78 million & 3.6/10

Rules of Engagement - 8.33 million & 3.1/8

Two and a Half Men - 14.50 million & 4.8/12

Mike & Molly (series debut) - 12.24 million & 3.9/10

Hawaii Five-O (series debut) - 13.83 million & 3.8/10

NBC

Chuck - 6.06 million & 2.1/6

The Event (series debut) - 11.19 million & 3.7/9

Chase (series debut) - 7.94 million & 2.5/7

FOX

House - 10.54 million & 4.1/11

Lone Star (series debut) - 4.06 million & 1.3/3

CW

90210 - 2.15 million & 1.0/3

Gossip Girl - 1.87 million & 1.0/3

Winners/Losers + Round Up to come...

 

[bigdaddy]

Lone Star will go from...

The best new show of the fall!

to....

The first show canceled!

Unless everyone who saw The Event, realized it's shit and watch Lone Star next week, it will be dead real soon.

I can't believe how bad those ratings are!

 

[Jax]

Winners...

Dancing With the Stars, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly, Hawaii Five-O and The Event

Honorable Mention

House, Castle, How I Met Your Mother and Rules of Engagement

Decent

Chase

Losers...

Chuck, Lone Star, 90120 and Gossip Girl

ROUND-UP...
Its as you were for ABC with the trouble free partnership of Castle and DWTS. I am glad ABC realise that its unrealistic to expect any 10pm ABC show to match the DWTS numbers and theres nothing wrong with the older skewing Castle.

CBS should be pleased with there two series debuts but next week will be the true test. ROE did good enough as it begins life as a full season show for the first time and HIMYM was at last season levels though CBS can afford to be picky so I wonder if there are drops, how much longer the two shows will stay.

Chuck is dead after its 13 episode run this season because we all know those numbers will just get lower. The Event started very well and more important it grew in the 2nd half of the pilot. However it could easily go the way of Heroes so NBC will hold there cheers for a little longer. Chase can afford a little drop but not much more in the upcoming weeks.

House is slowly becoming the next ER and was down almost 7 million from last season's debut and only the pilot has lower numbers to kick off a season with. If the typical erosion occurs then I hope FOX allow House to go out with dignity and tell the writers to wrap it up this season because c'mon where can the show go after the Huddy plot. Lone Star may of pleased the critics but its 100% DOA I'll give it until Mid October before its yanked.

CW - just go away now.

I want to talk a little more about FOX who are showing cracks similar to NBC before there fall (Idol excluding). Also I am trying to track down numbers for the HBO pilot of Boardwalk Empire, which I am going off to watch now so catch you later

 

[Sheep]

Chuck is dead after its 13 episode run this season because we all know those numbers will just get lower. The Event started very well and more important it grew in the 2nd half of the pilot. However it could easily go the way of Heroes so NBC will hold there cheers for a little longer. Chase can afford a little drop but not much more in the upcoming weeks.

I thought Chuck tended to hold steady, albeit unimpressive ratings so I'd be surprised to see it drop sharply from here. And the good thing is that it's on NBC, who still don't have anything resembling a suitable replacement for it.

Considering pilots tend to get much higher ratings than subsequent episodes, I don't think Chase is long for this world since it's all but certain its ratings will drop sharply, most likely even below those of Chuck. The same will happen for The Event, but it debuted with higher numbers so it will probably survive awhile unless viewers didn't like the big reveal.

 

[Starbreaker]

Those are actually great ratings for Chuck. Much better than 3 or 4 million.

WTF happened to Lone Star? I thought House was a great lead in for shows.

 

[Scout101]

Honestly, most of the problem is that 90% of the decent shows on this season are ALL on Monday. My DVR had 2-3 shows I wanted to watch, but just didn't make the cut because it can only record 2 at a time. Then tuesday and wednesday are dead, with everything else on Thursday for me. I wanted to watch several shows (Chuck, lonestar, 90210), but they were all on at basically the same time...

 

[Starbreaker]

I noticed that I used to have shows I wanted to watch every day except Saturday. Now, There's absolutely nothing on on Sunday or Friday I want to watch.

 

[Geck]

Wow, really surprised Lone Star started that low too. I wanted to watch it but didn't realise it was premiering last night. Maybe now I won't bother starting since it'll be gone soon...

The Event I'm waiting until a few episodes in to see what the buzz is like and if it'll be worth my time. After Flashforward and V last season both being disappointments I'm finding it hard to get excited for another sci-fi mystery series.

I watched about 7-8 minutes of Mike & Molly last night before changing the channel - the only thing it had going for it was Swoosie Kurtz, but in a far less interesting role than most of her others. No interest in H5O, and Chase I've never even heard of.

In terms of returning shows, I only watched HIMYM. House I've lost interest in and mostly only watch in syndication now, and Chuck I never watched from the start. Might catch up on it sometime this year or next.

Glad to see Castle doing well too, even though I don't watch it. I'll support anything Nathan Fillion does though.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Lone Star is pretty much DOA. I think Chuck may get an additional 6 episodes this season but I think it will be the final 6 ever if the ratings sink down below last season finale numbers.

 

[Landed]

Lone Star may of pleased the critics but its 100% DOA I'll give it until Mid October before its yanked.

It'll get at least 13 episodes. And it's "may have" not "may of".

 

[Jax]

It'll get at least 13 episodes. And it's "may have" not "may of".

What I meant is it will probably be yanked off come mid October as those numbers continue to drop and then whatever is left will be burn't off later in the season or in the summer. FOX will not hesitate to pull the plug of a show losing more than 50% of House lead in, which itself is not massive.

Those are actually great ratings for Chuck. Much better than 3 or 4 million.

Chuck will drop to low 5 million if not under 5 and the demo under 2.0 so even NBC will not keep that sort of show that has had 4th seasons. Heroes had a good international revenue stream, something Chuck does not have and still was cancelled. NBC kept it because they couldn't crop everything, last year Heroes went and this year Chuck will go. The only saving grace for Chuck will be if all of NBC does awful and because they can't cancel everything but even that may only buy an extension of episodes and not a 5th season.

And it's "may have" not "may of".

If you come here for grammar instead of the numbers my friend then you are going to be VERY dissapointed. I write a lot of info in these threads so I simply can't be bothered to back track and check all of my writing but feel free to do the threads I've been doing for the last 3 years if you feel any mistakes in the English language somehow makes my threads unreadable.

 

[Starbreaker]

Lone Star may of pleased the critics but its 100% DOA I'll give it until Mid October before its yanked.

It'll get at least 13 episodes. And it's "may have" not "may of".

Yeah... that's a great way to make friends.

 

[bigdaddy]

Chuck is dead after its 13 episode run this season because we all know those numbers will just get lower. The Event started very well and more important it grew in the 2nd half of the pilot. However it could easily go the way of Heroes so NBC will hold there cheers for a little longer. Chase can afford a little drop but not much more in the upcoming weeks.

I thought Chuck tended to hold steady, albeit unimpressive ratings so I'd be surprised to see it drop sharply from here. And the good thing is that it's on NBC, who still don't have anything resembling a suitable replacement for it.

The only reason why Chuck has made it the last few years is because NBC was in such the shitter. NBC now has a lot of new shit to show and might not want their old shit still around. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Chuck went byebye.

 

[Brent]

I'm worried about those Chuck numbers

 

[Landed]

Lone Star may of pleased the critics but its 100% DOA I'll give it until Mid October before its yanked.

It'll get at least 13 episodes. And it's "may have" not "may of".

Yeah... that's a great way to make friends.

Call me when you have something of merit to contribute.

 

[Landed]

If you come here for grammar instead of the numbers my friend then you are going to be VERY dissapointed.

disappointed.

I write a lot of info in my rating threads so I simply can't be bothered to back track and check all of my writing but feel free to do the threads yourself if you feel my mistakes in the English language somehow makes my threads unreadable.

Looks like I hit a nerve. If you're going to take issue each time someone corrects you on the internet, especially when it's done to point out such a basic error, then you either need to grow a thicker skin or ask your mom to stop payment on your ISP bill.

 

[Starbreaker]

It'll get at least 13 episodes. And it's "may have" not "may of".

Yeah... that's a great way to make friends.

Call me when you have something of merit to contribute.

Ring ring ring. Take your own advice. This is a message board, not a college class. Mistakes happen. Quit being rude, newbie.

 

[bigdaddy]

Yeah... that's a great way to make friends.

Call me when you have something of merit to contribute.

Ring ring ring. Take your own advice. This is a message board, not a college class. Mistakes happen. Quit being rude, newbie.

 

[Jax]

Lets return to the topic of TV shall we and leave the people who wish to de-rail threads to the mods. Anyone here watch Boardwalk Empire on sunday night ?

I watched the pilot earlier and I have to say that was really good television. The mafia/gangster genre has been dead on TV since The Sopranos ended and I for one is more than happy to see a new show take its mantle up. The era is also a freshing change of pace from the more modern take on the genre.

Boardwalk Empire has been renewed for second season. The premier episode gained HBO's highest ratings for any premier since 2004's Deadwood.

4.8 million viewers and up to 7.1 million after two repeats

 

[Landed]

Yeah... that's a great way to make friends.

Call me when you have something of merit to contribute.

Ring ring ring. Take your own advice. This is a message board, not a college class. Mistakes happen. Quit being rude, newbie.

Right. Mistakes happen, and those who cannot tolerate being corrected are doomed to make them again.

I was only trying to help.