These two polls have been running for about a week on the site, but I hadn’t called attention to them yet. I’m looking to get a sense from our readers what they think the biggest new show hit and flop will be this fall season. What’s a hit or a flop? I’d say early obvious renewal or cancellation, but ultimately the definition is up to you.
Being a numbers guy, I chose entirely based on the show’s placement in their respective networks day / time slots, I have no idea if the shows will be any good.
Biggest Hit: Fringe. It follows House, and its significant competition in the time slot is Dancing with The Stars which I think goes after an entirely different viewer.
Biggest Flop: Do Not Disturb. It follows ‘Til Death, which probably should have been cancelled last season on numbers alone. It also has credible competition on ABC, CBS and NBC in its timeslot.
You can check out the new fall broadcast schedules here.
What are your picks? And why?
Which New Show Will Be The Biggest HIT?
- Fringe (Fox) (30%, 580 Votes)
- 90210 (CW) (14%, 278 Votes)
- The Mentalist (CBS) (9%, 169 Votes)
- Knight Rider (NBC) (8%, 149 Votes)
- Kath & Kim (NBC) (6%, 120 Votes)
- Life on Mars (ABC) (6%, 115 Votes)
- 11th Hour (CBS) (5%, 91 Votes)
- My Own Worst Enemy (NBC) (3%, 65 Votes)
- Worst Week Ever (CBS) (3%, 59 Votes)
- America's Toughest Jobs (NBC) (3%, 58 Votes)
- The Ex-List (CBS) (3%, 58 Votes)
- Gary Unmarried (was Project Gary) (CBS) (2%, 43 Votes)
- Privileged (was Surviving the Filthy Rich) (CW) (2%, 43 Votes)
- Do Not Disturb (Fox) (1%, 29 Votes)
- Crusoe (NBC) (1%, 28 Votes)
- Opportunity Knocks (ABC) (1%, 18 Votes)
- Surviving Suburbia (CW) (1%, 16 Votes)
- Easy Money (CW) (1%, 10 Votes)
- Stylista (CW) (0%, 8 Votes)
- Valentine, Inc. (CW) (0%, 6 Votes)
- In Harm's Way (CW) (1%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,946
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Re: Gary Unmarried. Yeager blows.
there seems to be quite a few new shows destined to tank within a couple of weeks. The only show I am looking forward to is the Mentalist. I hope it lives up to the hype
Interesting that 90210 is #2 in both polls. I quess you could say it could either way. Yuk, yuk, yuk.
90210 sucked soooooooo bad I wanted to kill myself while I was watching it !!!!
Gossip Girl is all that
xoxo
Blair
I wish that I could vote Superstars of Dance for biggest flop, repeatedly.
The FCC should levy millions of dollars worth of fines on NBC for The Superstars of Dance. It’s as if t.v. executives have taken a time machine back to the twenties to coopt their ideas of having a celebration extravaganza to show us Americans all dem weird foreign cultures. They have dancers from India, South Africa, China, Ireland, Russia and Argentina, but apparently they are completely isolated from the current world dance standards, so all they do are the most stereotypical “cultural” dances possible. The Indian dancers have the most ridiculously over the top Bollywood ensembles I have ever seen. The Chinese judge is dressed like a Buddhist monk to match to match the Russian judge next to him wearing a bright blue kosovorotka. All the celtic dancers appears to be background dancers from Riverdance and most egregious of all, apparently the only dancers from South Africa are Zulu dancers, who even when competing on an American t.v. game show still dress in their traditional garb.
Also, from what bits and pieces I’ve seen so far, all of the American, British, Irish, Russian and Australian dancers are white, while all South African dancers are black. There was a dancer born and raised in the U.S., but of Indian descent and they have her competing as an “Indian Dancer”. As a fan of So You Think You Can Dance I hoped that this show would be an opportunity to collect the best dancers in the world and have them compete and demonstrate their dancing chops as individuals, beyond borders. But instead this garbage has been nothing more than NBC playing “let’s see how many national stereotypes we can exploit and reinforce.” The dancers aren’t individuals, they’re only conduits for the stereotypes that NBC wishes to feed the viewer. I weep that this show has even made it onto air. NBC honestly deserves to have its must-carry privileges revoked – their new programming philosophy is to make as many cheap, ###### reality shows as possible and hope that enough people randomly leave their t.v.s on at night to make them show up on the Nielsen numbers. This garbage should not be broadcast on the public air waves.
Edit: I have no idea how I found this five month article on which to post my rant. I’ll probably wait to to repost it on tomorrow’s ratings update.
Oh look, now some Chinese monks are performing a routine, because apparently that’s all they have for dance in crazy, backward-ass China, Shaolin. That’s right, the epitome of Chinese dance is lift a man and rest his chest on two spearheads. And look, nines and tens all around!
Dahlian, it’s because it’s linked from the story currently at the top of our home page and if you’re anything like me, you just clicked the link and had a “hey, how did I wind up in July?” moment.
You can repost your comment to the mid-season version of the post above, add more to tomorrow’s ratings post, both or neither!
THANK GOD LIFE ON MARS HASNT FLOP YET