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Is Lucifer the most-watched DC/Marvel superhero show on tv?
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Is Lucifer the most-watched DC/Marvel superhero show on tv?
I looked up the 18-49 demo ratings for Fox and the CW. Gotham is slightly ahead of Lucifer, and The Flash is ahead of both shows. Legion (on FX) is not competition (based upon the first episode), and I can't draw an easy comparison to the Marvel Netflix shows.
http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/cw-2015-16-season-ratings-38429/
http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/fox-tv-show-2016-2017-season-ratings/
http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/legion-tv-show-fx-season-one-ratings/
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This Lucifer hell seems more like the purgatory of hell or hell light. You torture yourself until you can move on to your heaven. (If hell is personalized, heaven might be personalized also) I would guess then that Hell is reserved for the irredeemable: Hitler, John Gacy, etc.
Are we defining "superhero" that broadly now? It's a comics-based show, but it's not a superhero comic. Okay, granted, Lucifer has superhuman powers that he uses to fight crime, and he kind of has a secret identity, in that he constantly reveals his true identity but nobody believes him. But it's a reach, I think. I'd put it in the more general category of comics-based fantasy shows, along with things such as iZombie, Constantine, Preacher, and The Walking Dead.
Glad to hear it, I really enjoy the show.
It's a guilty pleasure.
We really enjoy this show- premiered disguised as a weird procedural cop show but now has spread it's wings. I love how even the secondary characters are interesting and evolving.
answering my own question about most watched comic book shows, here are the L+7 total viewership numbers from Jan 30-Feb 5
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/dv...the-most-in-week-20-broadcast-live-7-ratings/
1. Lucifer - 6.196 million viewers
2. Gotham - 5.095
3. The Flash - 4.705
4. Agents of Shield - 4.234
5. Supergirl - 3.745
6. Arrow - 2.990
7. Legends of Tomorrow - 2.963
8. Riverdale - 1.907
Lucifer also led in same-day total viewership. And Lucifer also led in the 18-49 ratings too, both in same-day and L+7.
Lucifer - 1.9 (L+7) / 1.2 (same-day)
Gotham - 1.8/1.1
Flash - 1.8/1.1
Shield - 1.5/0.6
Supergirl - 1.2/0.7
Legends of Tomorrow - 1.2/0.7
Arrow - 1.1/0.6
Riverdale - 0.8/0.4
(Yeah, I know Riverdale doesn't fall under my original DC/Marvel question.)
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/dv...the-most-in-week-20-broadcast-live-7-ratings/
1. Lucifer - 6.196 million viewers
2. Gotham - 5.095
3. The Flash - 4.705
4. Agents of Shield - 4.234
5. Supergirl - 3.745
6. Arrow - 2.990
7. Legends of Tomorrow - 2.963
8. Riverdale - 1.907
Lucifer also led in same-day total viewership. And Lucifer also led in the 18-49 ratings too, both in same-day and L+7.
Lucifer - 1.9 (L+7) / 1.2 (same-day)
Gotham - 1.8/1.1
Flash - 1.8/1.1
Shield - 1.5/0.6
Supergirl - 1.2/0.7
Legends of Tomorrow - 1.2/0.7
Arrow - 1.1/0.6
Riverdale - 0.8/0.4
(Yeah, I know Riverdale doesn't fall under my original DC/Marvel question.)
I suppose that just goes to show that police procedurals are still king of basic cable. Its a bit unfair to compare the CW shows to the FOX/ABC shows though since CW, from what I understand, gets less viewers in general then those networks.
I don't think the ratings really answer that question with much accuracy these days.
Gotham and Lucifer skew older and older people are more likely to watch broadcast TV traditionally, while the CW shows skew younger and younger people are more likely to watch shows through alternative means(CW app, Netflix).
If it wasn't for Hutu I would not be able to watch it at all...
Well, that's good, since it's been set there all along. I could've sworn they did at least some location filming in LA, though, but maybe that was just some very good greenscreen work.
That sounded alarming at first, but it's reassuring to know they planned an 18-episode season arc to begin with and then got an extension. I guess it's better to hold the extras for next season instead of padding out the arc beyond its planned endpoint. And standalone episodes are kind of a rarity these days -- they could be interesting.
I think having them at the beginning of next season actually works a lot better than the end of this season.
I'm glad their moving to LA, it always seems weird to me when shows like this, where the whole culture and feel of the setting is a big part of it, doesn't film there.
Now I just wish The Originals would move to NOLA, although Georgia is at least closer to NOLA than Vancouver is to LA.
I'm glad their moving to LA, it always seems weird to me when shows like this, where the whole culture and feel of the setting is a big part of it, doesn't film there.
Now I just wish The Originals would move to NOLA, although Georgia is at least closer to NOLA than Vancouver is to LA.
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