Comments on: Nielsen Ratings for Friday Feb 1, 2008

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:55:35 +0000

I love FNL and I am a 37 year old, mother of two. My husband is 41 and usually watches the History or Discovery channel yet he loves watching this show as much as I do along w/ my 11 and 8 year olds. It is so well written and acted – I don’t know where the producers found all these unkown kids who are true talents. NBC put it on Friday night which is known to be the worst night for ratings. I can only imagine what reality show or game show they would replace it with cuz we don’t have enough of those. If you haven’t watched FNL – give it a shot.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:55:35 +0000

I love FNL and I am a 37 year old, mother of two. My husband is 41 and usually watches the History or Discovery channel yet he loves watching this show as much as I do along w/ my 11 and 8 year olds. It is so well written and acted – I don't know where the producers found all these unkown kids who are true talents. NBC put it on Friday night which is known to be the worst night for ratings. I can only imagine what reality show or game show they would replace it with cuz we don't have enough of those. If you haven't watched FNL – give it a shot.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:06:24 +0000

I hope Rena reads them all.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:06:24 +0000

I hope Rena reads them all.

By: Nighthawk

Nighthawk — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:02:25 +0000

Bryan ! Go to the TV Guide website, I have not read it yet cause I raced over here to tell you….some article about “Can FNL be salvaged?”…..some good news ???

By: Nighthawk

Nighthawk — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:58:53 +0000

I saw that this morning … very sad. How can one not think about the end. We can only pray for a miracle …..

By: Nighthawk

Nighthawk — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:02:25 +0000

Bryan ! Go to the TV Guide website, I have not read it yet cause I raced over here to tell you….some article about “Can FNL be salvaged?”…..some good news ???

By: Nighthawk

Nighthawk — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:58:53 +0000

I saw that this morning … very sad. How can one not think about the end. We can only pray for a miracle …..

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:08:22 +0000

From USA Today on 2/8/07….

•It has been a great run, but we’ve reached the final Friday Night Lights (NBC, tonight, 9 ET/PT) of the season. Try to put aside fears, at least momentarily, that it might be the last Lights ever, and enjoy one more hour of one of the best series ever done about small-town life.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:08:22 +0000

From USA Today on 2/8/07….

•It has been a great run, but we've reached the final Friday Night Lights (NBC, tonight, 9 ET/PT) of the season. Try to put aside fears, at least momentarily, that it might be the last Lights ever, and enjoy one more hour of one of the best series ever done about small-town life.

By: Nighthawk

Nighthawk — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:49:12 +0000

Thank you Bryan. And yes, Dancing with the Stars does suck, along with 90% of other network shows. The only way to get the correct ratings would be for everyone to have a Neilson box. That won’t happen, so we’re stuck with 90% crap, 10% good stuff (like FNL )

By: Nighthawk

Nighthawk — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:49:12 +0000

Thank you Bryan. And yes, Dancing with the Stars does suck, along with 90% of other network shows. The only way to get the correct ratings would be for everyone to have a Neilson box. That won't happen, so we're stuck with 90% crap, 10% good stuff (like FNL )

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:32:16 +0000

I know and yet it was not written by the production company. Just get it…. Its a good show… Just cause it does not have ratings does not mean its a bad show. Ratings is not everything. It means everything to the TV stations which is really unfortunate. There has be alot of shows that were really good and they did not get the ratings so they were cancelled. On a side note.. Dancing with the Stars sucks.. yet it gets ratings so it stays on.. does not mean its good quality TV….NO

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:32:16 +0000

By: Rena Moretti

Rena Moretti — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:16:54 +0000

Thanks for the article Nighthawk

I thought it was a hoot.

It read as if it had been written by the production company to lobby NBC for yet another chance.

By: Rena Moretti

Rena Moretti — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:16:54 +0000

Thanks for the article Nighthawk

I thought it was a hoot.

It read as if it had been written by the production company to lobby NBC for yet another chance.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:56:59 +0000

See others like Friday night lights also Rita.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:56:59 +0000

See others like Friday night lights also Rita.

By: Nighthawk

Nighthawk — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:25:37 +0000

here is the glimmer …See the article entitled “NBC considers extending “Nights” ” by Rick Kissell, Variety mag, dated Feb 1, 2008………

By: Nighthawk

Nighthawk — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:18:20 +0000

Rob, I hope you are right about NBC not dropping the ball on FNL …. saw an article with a glimmer of hope regarding the show, when I find it I’ll post it here….

By: Nighthawk

Nighthawk — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:25:37 +0000

here is the glimmer …See the article entitled “NBC considers extending “Nights” ” by Rick Kissell, Variety mag, dated Feb 1, 2008………

By: Nighthawk

Nighthawk — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:18:20 +0000

Rob, I hope you are right about NBC not dropping the ball on FNL …. saw an article with a glimmer of hope regarding the show, when I find it I'll post it here….

By: Rena Moretti

Rena Moretti — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:49:47 +0000

Rob,

I was trying to be nice, but since you felt free to insult me, I’ll point out that your argument about young audiences is completely ageist.

You’re trying to spin bad ratings by saying that older people shouldn’t count.

For shame!

By: Rena Moretti

Rena Moretti — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:38:52 +0000

Vegas had one more million viewers, and I think it’s the last year for that show (don’t know if they announced it yet).

1 vs. 100 had 2 more million viewers.

They just don’t have the same ratings, and if you add to that fact that FNL is the most hyped show on that night, its ratings performance is disastrous.

I’m not sure where you get the idea that it’s producing a profit for NBC.

NBC is clearly hurting. If it was doing great with less than 6 million viewers per show, it wouldn’t be hurting financially.

As for the demographic explanation, I simply don’t buy it. FNL was renewed probably because of political situations within NBC, which caused NBC to pretend like it believed more episodes of the same show would somehow get more ratings with more hype.

It didn’t work last year, and there was no reason to think it’d work this year.

The only rationale NBC has to renew FNL is if it wants to stay 4 out 4 next year and keep on losing money.

By: Rena Moretti

Rena Moretti — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:49:47 +0000

Rob,

I was trying to be nice, but since you felt free to insult me, I'll point out that your argument about young audiences is completely ageist.

You're trying to spin bad ratings by saying that older people shouldn't count.

For shame!