| Scoreboard for Sat. May 17, 2008 |  |
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| Total Viewers (million) | 5.17 | 4.53 | 3.82 | 3.69 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.0/4 | 1.8/6 | 1.3/5 | 0.8/3 |
CBS had the most viewers and FOX had the best demo rating, even though Cops and were languishing. To be honest, I’m not sure they weren’t reruns. I am sure that if you take the demo numbers for America’s Most WantedCops and America’s Most Wanted it doesn’t come out to a 1.8/8, but I’m just taking the numbers as they were reported. They’re so bad to be honest that it doesn’t even really matter if you correct them. NBC couldn’t even do a 1.0 in the demo and if not for 48 Hours Mystery, CBS wouldn’t have made it to 1.0. Those Crimetime reruns don’t do well for either NBC or CBS.
There’s not much else to say so I’ll bore you with some administrative minutiae. We upgraded to Wordpress 2.5.1 over the weekend and the bonus is, I can paste pretty tables directly from Excel into Wordpress which is a real timesaver for me and something I’d been wishing we could do since we launched. Sadly, Bill who is sworn to the cult of Apple can’t simply cut and paste pretty tables from Excel into Wordpress and this alone will slow down my upgrade to a 24″ iMac. I won’t waste a single moment trying to convince Bill to boot up his Mac in Windows for the pretty tables, because once you go Mac, you never go back. And Bill was an Apple guy from the get-go.
Overall the upgrade to 2.5.1 went very well other than Bill couldn’t upload pictures and in the process of trying to fix it we knocked our site out of commission briefly. A tense moment for the TVbytheNumbers system administrators (that would be me and Bill). On the plus side we added a poll widget, but in my first test I didn’t phrase the questions well so it’s not clear to me if so far 65% believe Moonlight will get back on the air, or whether CBS will be bloody. Please don’t send blood to CBS!!
Speaking of cancelled shows, Bill got out the abacus and came up with a pretty cool way for prognosticating about which shows will be cancelled. It will be even cooler starting in the fall when we can use it starting from the beginning of the season.
Trust me, Bill’s TV Show Cancellation Index is much more interesting reading than Saturday night’s results:
| Time | Network | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | ABC | Movie: Hitch (Repeat) 8p-11p | 3.82 | 1.3/5 |
| CBS | Cold Case (Repeat) | 4.59 | 0.8/3 | |
| NBC | Medium (Repeat) | 2.52 | 0.5/2 | |
| FOX | Cops | 4.25 | 1.6/7 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | Law & Order: CI (Repeat) | 3.56 | 0.7/2 |
| FOX | America’s Most Wanted | 4.81 | 1.6/6 | |
| CBS | CSI: NY (Repeat) | 5.05 | 0.9/3 | |
| 10:00 | NBC | Law & Order (Repeat) | 4.99 | 1.2/4 |
| CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 5.78 | 1.3/5 |
Nielsen Ratings Source: Nielsen Media Research. Full night’s results available via Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
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Why would a network be struggling by cancelling one of their lower rated series? That makes no sense at all.
Sandy, you ask why someone would think a network is struggling because it cancels a low rated series? It only goes to show the upsidedown logic of hard core fans of niche shows. They throw logic out the window – its 100% emotion, 0% logic.
The ratings all in all were not that bad for moonlight, certainly will be better than 50% of the new shows launched next year. I'm just sick of networks not giving shows a second season when all they are going to do is launch and cancel more new shows. When you have a show like moonlight that kept it's ratings fairly close to ghost whisperer and has a very dedicated audience I think the networks need to consider what they can do to make it fit in the schedule rather than just dump it for the next pile of crap that will be canceled after 3 episodes. For me it's not just moonlight although I loved it, it is happening way to often lately with a lot of new shows.