Returning 07-08 shows take a dive in ratings: do people hate TV?

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

I haven't watched ANY of 3 liked shows currently at the time they aired.

I downloaded Heroes 2 hour premiere later, spread out the two episodes. I watched Smallville 1, 2, and 3 this season online. Haven't watched The Office premiere yet nor Heroes episode 3, will watch both of those either on Hulu/NBC.com or downloaded.

I'm also a fan of 30 Rock and Prison Break... but im watcihng PREVIOUS seasons.... on DVD.

It's definetely new media.

 

[Starbreaker]

Everyone is watching CNN and worrying about gas and the election...

 

[Captain Shaw]

Entertainment Weekly posted the numbers and it seems as though most of the Monday night shows are taking a dive in the ratings. The few exceptions are Boston Legal, as well as The CW’s One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl, all of which have gained numbers.
I wonder if this means we will get a full season of BL

 

[TheBrew]

I do all of my TV watching online (mostly on Hulu) because I decided to skip cable this year. I think more people (especially younger, college students) are doing the same.

 

[RobertScorpio]

People hate the idiotic political statements, be they left or right, these pinheads make...they should just make their shows/movies and just be glad they have it made..

Rob

 

[nx1701g]

I wonder if this means we will get a full season of BL

Very doubtful. ABC doesn't seem to like the show and I believe they already have a show lined up for its timeslot after the 13 episodes are over.

Though I wonder how long it'll be until the 4th wall is broken about that.

And, I have to agree, a lot of the viewership is now directed toward online viewing.

 

[Garrett]

I can't really think of anybody I know who watches first run TV anymore, except maybe my mom. Almost everyone else I know downloads the episodes, or at least has a DVR. If I watch any tv, it's usually news. I might get home in time to catch the occasional episode of something I'm interested in, but more often I end up watching it on Hulu at work, or downloading it from Amazon/iTunes.

The last few years, I often haven't even made that effort. I'd hear about some show I had to check out, like Heroes, but would just make a mental note to pick the show up on DVD when it came out.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Commercials are killing television--I seriously believe that.

When I go through my TV listings and see a show I'm in interesting in seeing, it's usually in a commercial break, so I move on to something else...and find another program in the middle of a commercial break...

Too many commercial breaks, too long commercial breaks, too many pop-up ads (and now continuous ads) for other shows during the shows you're looking at, does turn some people off, IMO.

DVDs, online viewing, even video-on-demand services generally provide a better viewing experience for a lot of people these days and also allow people to view programs when they want to, which I believe is becoming more and more appealing. The days in which people fit their schedule around their favorite TV shows may be a thing of past...

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^Have you heard the new way they're going to include more ads? A new system that automatically finds blank spaces in video, blue sky, blank wall. patches of grass in the background, etc. Then digitally overlays/embeds ads in to the show.
I'll see if I can find the article I read it in, and post a link.

I don't think this is the article I originally read, but it's the only one I could find.

 

[BenRoethig]

I don't know about everyone else, with being able to watch episodes l tend to schedule myself a little less around t.v. schedules knowing I can watch most of them when I have free time.

 

[broberfett]

Schedules.
People are too busy to watch TV. I know I am.

Bingo.

 

[broberfett]

^Have you heard the new way they're going to include more ads? A new system that automatically finds blank spaces in video, blue sky, blank wall. patches of grass in the background, etc. Then digitally overlays/embeds ads in to the show.
I'll see if I can find the article I read it in, and post a link.

I don't think this is the article I originally read, but it's the only one I could find.

It is like some sort of damn nightmare. I swear I've watched shows I was only lightly interested in and the commercial break was so damn long that I forgot what I was watching.

 

[nx1701g]

^ Sadly I've seen such TV episodes too. I swear one night I was watching a show and it had five minutes of commercials in one break.

 

[LutherSloan]

I'm pretty convinced that it's a combination of TV viewers still angry about the strike, which postponed my '24' fix for a year , and the increase in new methods of viewership. Now you can pretty much get any episode online without paying on most of the network sites.

Part of it could also be just stale shows. However, because it still seems like people are watching 'reality' shows (for some odd reason, maybe drugs), maybe I'm wrong.

 

[RoJoHen]

People either DVR their shows or watch them online. Simple as that.

I watch 2 shows: Chuck and Heroes. I watch them on my friend's TiVo because we both work Monday nights.

Other shows, like BSG and Stargate, I just wait for the DVDs because I'd rather watch them on my own time without commercials, and without fear of missing one episode because I just happened to be busy that week.

 

[broberfett]

I recall that the writer's strike seemed to break a spell I was under. Those crime shows which seemed so fascinating suddenly seemed less so. I think I dropped about half of them. I've lost alot of interest in CSI and Criminal Minds. I still like Darth Horatio. I occasionally will tune into NCIS.

Numbers just went so incredibly ludicrous that I couldn't stand it anymore. The Numbers guy sent classified info to potential terrorist guys because he thought it was the right thing to do. They exploded the bullshit meter with going so far to avoid having the terrorist guy be from a country like Pakistan that they had it be an Irish guy disguised as a Pakistani in an office of Pakistanis. Somehow the Pakistanis didn't recognize him. It would be like having a white guy in black face in an office full of black people and them not noticing.

 

[C.E. Evans]

^Have you heard the new way they're going to include more ads? A new system that automatically finds blank spaces in video, blue sky, blank wall. patches of grass in the background, etc. Then digitally overlays/embeds ads in to the show.

Yeah, I did hear about that. Digital product placement. I don't think I mind if it's done in a kind of subtle almost subliminal way, but when you start seeing glaring Coca-Cola ads just floating in mid-air of your favorite show, it might start alienating viewers...

I swear I've watched shows I was only lightly interested in and the commercial break was so damn long that I forgot what I was watching.

I've heard quite a few people say that as well.

 

[nx1701g]

^Have you heard the new way they're going to include more ads? A new system that automatically finds blank spaces in video, blue sky, blank wall. patches of grass in the background, etc. Then digitally overlays/embeds ads in to the show.

Yeah, I did hear about that. Digital product placement. I don't think I mind if it's done in a kind of subtle almost subliminal way, but when you start seeing glaring Coca-Cola ads just floating in mid-air of your favorite show, it might start alienating viewers...

I doubt they'd care much. Perhaps this is the start of Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation.

 

[wamdue]

talking of, anyone else watching the post season on TBS, how do they do the 9 feet graphic, so that the player standing on it, doesn't blur it, it look like he is standing on a blue screen, hell for that matter how do they get it to stay where it is despite the camera movement?

its a very impressive bit of technology

 

[nx1701g]

Interestingly (looking at last nights ratings) again it looks like two of last years new shows are doing equally bad. Chuck and TSCC.