TV Ratings (Monday 27th October)
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Looking good for Gary Unmarried while its a repeat.
As for How I Met Your Mother repeat, what hapepned there? o.O
As for How I Met Your Mother repeat, what hapepned there? o.O
I guess everybody's already seen it. Most people who watch the show watch religiously, I think.
I wouldn't be surprised to see NBC move the show come midseason or for season 4.
Heroes is really rockin' that 18-34 demographic. Scroll down a bit and check out this chart, everything else drops between the 19-49 and 18-34 demo, but Heroes ticks up, 3.9/9 to 4.2/10. The only exception is the CW. Heroes is mimicking a CW show!
Which is significant when you know that NBC, realizing that they are undergoing utter catastrophe, is casting around for solutions and the only spot of bright light is the fact that Heroes, somehow, has managed to appeal to a demo that otherwise has stopping watching TV. NBC wants to build some alternative-to-Nielsens strategy and Heroes is looking like the foundation. God knows they've got nothing else except past-their-prime ER and L&O. They cannot wallow in the past forever.
Heroes is the future of NBC. I don't care if the ratings are iffy, if the NBC suits are thinking at all strategically about their future, they have got to be wondering what it is about Heroes that is youth-skewing, when even charming, smart Chuck isn't (any more than normal).
I think it's the good-looking, appealing characters and their beyond-soapy hysterical antics. Gossip Girl should be so shameless. Bash Peter, Claire and Mohinder all you want for being a) moronically written and b) badly acted, but they represent a big part of that show's appeal to the young idiots of America. And I mean that affectionately, young idiots, because as a rabid Heroes fan (and I usually have such good taste!!!) I consider myself one of your ilk and I am grateful to your fine efforts keeping Heroes on the healthy side of the renew/cancel index.
Hey we all deserve one guilty pleasure show.
It gets viewers, NBC just has to figure out how to extract money from them.
Let's have an episode where everyone talks about how much they luuuuv Degree deodorant. 
Which is significant when you know that NBC, realizing that they are undergoing utter catastrophe, is casting around for solutions and the only spot of bright light is the fact that Heroes, somehow, has managed to appeal to a demo that otherwise has stopping watching TV. NBC wants to build some alternative-to-Nielsens strategy and Heroes is looking like the foundation. God knows they've got nothing else except past-their-prime ER and L&O. They cannot wallow in the past forever.
Heroes is the future of NBC. I don't care if the ratings are iffy, if the NBC suits are thinking at all strategically about their future, they have got to be wondering what it is about Heroes that is youth-skewing, when even charming, smart Chuck isn't (any more than normal).
I think it's the good-looking, appealing characters and their beyond-soapy hysterical antics. Gossip Girl should be so shameless. Bash Peter, Claire and Mohinder all you want for being a) moronically written and b) badly acted, but they represent a big part of that show's appeal to the young idiots of America. And I mean that affectionately, young idiots, because as a rabid Heroes fan (and I usually have such good taste!!!) I consider myself one of your ilk and I am grateful to your fine efforts keeping Heroes on the healthy side of the renew/cancel index.
Hey we all deserve one guilty pleasure show.
With the DVR viewers, it does get 10M. Forty percent increase!!!
It gets viewers, NBC just has to figure out how to extract money from them.
Let's have an episode where everyone talks about how much they luuuuv Degree deodorant.
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Man, Chuck really deserves better ratings. Stupid NBC being a crappy network nobody watches anymore.
Because it's on a crappy network is the only reason it's still on TV, so be happy.
Well, people (you know who you are) have previously claimed that the 18-49 demographic is the important one. Contrary to those who have claimed this, other demographics are also considered. So the high score in the 18-34 demo must be very helpful to Heroes' chances of getting loopier yet.
The breakdown between male and female viewers is also relevant. The income demographic for Heroes is probably most important of all. (And therefore most secret.) If Heroes' audience is the fabled boys in their parents' basement stereotype---or merely perceived by advertisers to be that---fans may be disappointed about how little the 18-34 demo can count for. The large increase in audience by delayed viewing must give the network cause to think, though it may be only to regret how little advertisers care about that. And it's still true that total audience still counts.
Overall, I think Heroes still is a winner of sorts, and NBC has very few.
Fans should be sanely optimistic.
) have previously claimed that the 18-49 demographic is the important one. Contrary to those who have claimed this, other demographics are also considered. So the high score in the 18-34 demo must be very helpful to Heroes' chances of getting loopier yet. The breakdown between male and female viewers is also relevant. The income demographic for Heroes is probably most important of all. (And therefore most secret.) If Heroes' audience is the fabled boys in their parents' basement stereotype---or merely perceived by advertisers to be that---fans may be disappointed about how little the 18-34 demo can count for. The large increase in audience by delayed viewing must give the network cause to think, though it may be only to regret how little advertisers care about that. And it's still true that total audience still counts.
Overall, I think Heroes still is a winner of sorts, and NBC has very few.
Fans should be sanely optimistic.
Damn straight. ABC's going to be kicking themselves come February when BL isn't on anymore. I'm sure they've got the last episode written (maybe they've even filmed it), but it's not too late to tack on another 7-11 episodes and make this a full year.
I don't know why Chuck gets bad numbers, The stuff on CBS is just dreadful.
Damn straight. ABC's going to be kicking themselves come February when BL isn't on anymore. I'm sure they've got the last episode written (maybe they've even filmed it), but it's not too late to tack on another 7-11 episodes and make this a full year.
I'm not sure about the last episode, but they have an episode upcoming where Alan takes the case of a woman who was fired for voting for McCain.
That's just them being topical, and not anything terribly "ripped from the headlines." At least, not recently. I remember there being a news story about a woman who was fired because she had a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on her car.