Definitely need to see at least a couple more weeks of ratings for The Orville in its current timeslot. It's already somewhat low for a show as expensive as it is.
Rating for US Premiere
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Definitely need to see at least a couple more weeks of ratings for The Orville in its current timeslot. It's already somewhat low for a show as expensive as it is.
Oh, how expensive is it?
I'd love to see what the "Rotten Tomatoes" numbers would have looked like in real time for each series after only 2 hours had been shown to the public.
As are user reviews in such small numbers, particularly when a riled-up portion of a fanbase is involved.
A shit ton more than a single camera sitcom with three sets.
There was a very recent interview in which one of the cast members mentioned that they were filming episode 15. I suspect you saw this or heard of it, and I call shenanigans on your powers of prediction. Nice try, though.
Didn't the critics get the first 4 eps to review? Maybe the next 2 will be better. It'll be nice to see the ship the show is named for at least.
Not even just part of fanbase. Among the whole "This is not Star Trek", this or that room is to big, lens flare, etc.. you also have the insults toward SJWs in the mix. That's just people that even bother to comment anything. You have a bunch of ratings that are just half a star (didn't even realize that was a thing) and a lot of them. Which is pretty much in line with review bombing that takes place. That's why the user score is dropping the way it is. There is also nothing stopping someone from creating multiple accounts and continuing to do that. At that point when you see the actions like that you just have to discount that section like other user review sections on many sites.
Which is why when people say "professional reviews mean nothing hue hue hue". I just shake my head. I would much rather take the opinion of someone who puts out their real name and picture and oh yeah THEIR LIVELY HOOD DEPENDS ON A WELL REASONED ARGUEMENT. Are their clickbait sites? Of course. But lets not be children about this we all know which sites have legitimacy and which to avoid. These reasons by the way are why professional reviews are important far and before their own expertise and experience in said field beyond that of a mouth breather disgruntled person hiding behind a keyboard.
Wasn't sure I should bother with a whole new thread just for the Canadian ratings, so I'll just mention them here.
Apparently, Discovery broke Canadian viewership records: it was the most-watched show ever on a Canadian specialty channel (on Space, episode 1 set the record initially with 1.17 million viewers, then episode 2 immediately broke that record, with 1.2 million viewers), and it was the largest ever debut on the CraveTV streaming service.
Including the CTV numbers (CTV simulcasted only episode 1), 2.2 million people in total watched the first episode.
This is apparently based on Live + 3 day numbers.
Source: Bell Media press release
Apparently, Discovery broke Canadian viewership records: it was the most-watched show ever on a Canadian specialty channel (on Space, episode 1 set the record initially with 1.17 million viewers, then episode 2 immediately broke that record, with 1.2 million viewers), and it was the largest ever debut on the CraveTV streaming service.
Including the CTV numbers (CTV simulcasted only episode 1), 2.2 million people in total watched the first episode.
This is apparently based on Live + 3 day numbers.
Source: Bell Media press release
I prefer "Farpoint" to the Discovery episodes. There is heart and optimism to the "Farpoint" story that simply doesn't exist in the two Discovery episodes. "Farpoint" actually feels like it is about something.
The Orville fell again. Not quite as precipitously as in the previous two weeks, but it dropped from 4.05m to 3.7m. It's shedding viewers at a rate of knots.
300k isn’t that many viewers.
This does not take Live+3 into consideration.
Analysts suggest viewership is holding steady.
Honestly top me - Encounter At Farpoint was about 2 Hours, I was so unimpressed (and even more unimpressed when I was the first 'regular' episode was a piss poor remake of a truly classic TOS episode) - I ALMOST said, "I'm done". If TNG hadn't been the first new attempt at Live Action Star Trek in 18 years at that point - I would have probably treated in the way I did ST:VOY (IE stop watching).
At the time many of my group that also liked TOS didn't start watching TNG until Season 3 and "Yesterday's Enterprise". Everyone's 'milage' varies.
But TNG at the start always came across to me like: "This is what GR would have done to the original cast and ST Universe with ST: Phase II?? I'm glad that version never got made and we got the feature films like STII:TWoK."