News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville
- Thread starter Kai "the spy"
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The ratings on anything will go down. You will have tons of people tuning in to the first episode out of curiosity. Some will like it and continue to watch and some won't and won't watch anymore
Will it be safe from getting stuffed around by the NFL games on a Thursday night time slot? (I know that was concern some voiced in here about the premier last week).
That is certainly possible.
I do think, on the whole, that it will be good for BOTH shows. GOTHAM can get very dark. THE ORVILLE is lighter fare. They balance out.
Plus, it will be right after the season premiere of GOTHAM, so there might be new viewers that THE ORVILLE might not have otherwise had.
I do think, on the whole, that it will be good for BOTH shows. GOTHAM can get very dark. THE ORVILLE is lighter fare. They balance out.
Plus, it will be right after the season premiere of GOTHAM, so there might be new viewers that THE ORVILLE might not have otherwise had.
I don't think it will be preempted by games on Fox but they show Thursday night games sometimes on NBC or NFL Network so it might have competition.
What time was the first episode on? Would it have been in competition with Walking Dead?
Fear the Walking Dead is being shown but not the flagship show. EDIT: I think its timeslot keeps it from conflicting anyway.
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Ok you were talking about around the act. I was thinking about the act itself, especially when you said huge production.
Thursday isn't too bad. If it gets moved to Friday that's the end of it, guaranteed.
Good point.
Nice interview with Brannon Braga about the show here.
"There is an episode where The Orville crew finds itself in a situation where they need to destroy an enemy vessel, but they actually take into consideration the thing we never did on Star Trek which was there are families aboard that ship."
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On Sunday nights, it is going up against NBC's Sunday Night Football. The number one show in America, IIRC.
Just looked it up and you're correct but second place is ... Thursday Night Football on NBC.
And it's up against the Emmys this Sunday. However, I don't know this for a fact, but I imagine sci-fi audiences have to be among the tougher to dissuade from viewing.
That was a very good interview. Very insightful. That spoiler makes me happy.
Also probably for the best seeing as how Star Trek had to find ways to break the damned thing to get characters into jams they they couldn't easily get out of.
Plus the latest ratings have The Orville premier at 8.6, so they might be better positioned to survive a ratings drop.
Not always. Survivor, football, Friends, Seinfeld, HIMYM, Lost. Lots of shows had ratings that went UP over time.
Networks sell ad time based on ratings projections.
If a show out-performs their projections, the sponsor gets a bargain.
If a show under-performs, the network has to compensate the sponsor and thereby loses money.
The quick way for a show to get cancelled is if, week by week, the show's ratings fall short of what the sponsors paid for. A network will cancel a show weeks before it starts costing them money if the trend is clear.
What those deals are is information that we're generally not privy to in any detail, BTW - hence the many, many conversations among fans along the lines of "But this other show over here had a smaller audience and was renewed, but my favorite show got cancelled! Not fair!"
If a show out-performs their projections, the sponsor gets a bargain.
If a show under-performs, the network has to compensate the sponsor and thereby loses money.
The quick way for a show to get cancelled is if, week by week, the show's ratings fall short of what the sponsors paid for. A network will cancel a show weeks before it starts costing them money if the trend is clear.
What those deals are is information that we're generally not privy to in any detail, BTW - hence the many, many conversations among fans along the lines of "But this other show over here had a smaller audience and was renewed, but my favorite show got cancelled! Not fair!"
Yeah, either break the transporter or come up with some technobabble reason why the transporter would not work, which usually involved some atmospheric anomaly: "Captain, unusual high levels of tribaryonic radiation in the atmosphere is blocking our transporter signal."
I'm glad that Orville will be avoiding that nonsense.
Also, one item they can distinguish themselves from Trek. Can't harm to have some of that.