- HUT refers to the number of Households Using/watching Television at a particular point of time. Hence, the number is the same for ALL networks and it is a known fact that more people watch TV at 9pm than 8pm

- I’ve said this many times but I’m going to say it again: OTH is an established show. It does not need the amount of promotion GG gets. But promotion or no promotion, OTH is SUPPOSED to do better than GG, not because it’s a better show in any way but because: (i) it’s more established, (ii) it has a history of higher ratings, (iii) it’s at 9pm.
I don’t see why you should be bashing GG. If I were an OTH fan, I’d be contented but not conceited that OTH managed to pull off just a bit more numbers than GG, because if the opposite were to happen OTH would be in trouble.

- Besides, OTH had the privilege of being on The WB. It could rely on the audience it built with The WB while GG had to find its own audience.

Oh, and OTH has better quality plotlines? Yeah right.

I like the idea of the chess match scene…

I for one would like to see an episode were Cameron and John play a good game of chess. Man vs Machine.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991939.html?categoryId=14&cs=1#

“On Monday of the current week, Fox’s “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” opened with nothing-special numbers in its new timeslot (2.4/7 in 18-49, 6.33m), though it was the top broadcast program in demos. “Prison Break” followed (2.6/6, 6.36m) with numbers similar to its week-earlier season preem.

“Sarah Connor” could have been impacted by the early-starting season preem of “Monday Night Football” on ESPN (5.1/15, 12.50m for Green Bay-Minnesota), which began at 7:05 p.m. ET instead of the usual 8:40.”

First and for most, Im a fan of TSCC, but FOX need to keep a close eye on it. In my opinion, last nights episode was an anticlimax. Given last season’s cliff-hangar ending and a quality first season, I was expecting more from the second season premiere. It felt more like a filler episode, with the entire Cameron wanting to terminate John to protecting him. All we did was just go around in circles. If it was for the final scene, the episode would have been a complete disaster in my opinion. Those numbers arent that impressive and to lose out to PB is not good news.

So WOW, Gossip Girl got almost 3.4 million viewers for its season premiere episode and 3.2 for its 2nd, and it outpreformed One Tree Hill in its season premiere, big deal…

So, let us compare the two CW dramas:
1. Gossip Girl has far more promotion than One Tree Hill, still gets outpreformed most of the time.
2. When One Tree Hill was in its 2nd season it averaged 4.3 million viewers and had a season high of 5.4 million, that’s numbers Gossip Girl wont even get near this season.
3. Okay, maybe its not fair comparing the shows like that, since One Tree Hill wasn’t on CW back then, plus it had Gilmore Girls as lead-in, so lets compare how they did on Wednesdays at 9. In the 06-07 season, One Tree Hills fourth, it had Top Model as lead-in. One Tree Hill averaged 2.9 million viewers and had a season high at 4.2 million.
In the 07-08 season Gossip Girl had that very same spot and averaged 2.35 million viewers and had a season high at 3.65 million.

So lets face it Gossip Girls numbers are not, nor will they ever be, comparable to One Tree Hills. And the quality of the One Tree Hill plotlines continues to be far better than Gossip Girls every week!

I expect better numbers from TSCC and the likes next week. Good thing is that even with poor ratings, TSCC did well againt the competition. So that’s something to look forward to.

Also, TSCC has been huge in the DVR department and online viewing… hopefully FOX looks at that as a positive.

1. HUT no.’s are higher at 9pm, so by saying that OTH beat GG due to a mere 0.09 million viewers and 0.1 rating increase is a “huge success” is exaggerating. There’s something wrong with OTH if it doesn’t do better than GG. Besides, both got 3.1/9 for their core women 18-34.

2. OTH is an established show. It doesn’t need the amount of promotion GG gets because getting new viewers to tune it at a show’s sixth (and rumored last) season would be difficult, and not to mention, pointless.

Terminator, on the other hand, has two issues: it’s not a FOX production, so FOX has to pay Warner Brothers to air the episodes, and Terminator has a huge percentage of non-live viewers (hopefully still true this season). The amazing thing is Terminator is consistently putting out quality stuff, it’s tough to find a negative review of the show anywhere.

I’m going to place my bet now that people just didn’t know the show was starting last night. I am talking to more people today, nobody watched, nobody knew it started.

Also, something else, my DVR, even without me telling it, was ready to record Sarah Connor last night because I have it set to record first run episodes for that series. I’m hoping that a lot of DVR viewers do the same. That way people may be watching the show later in the week after missing it last night.

I just hope Terminator meets or exceeds Fox’s expectations. Since I don’t know what those are, I’m panicking about the ratings, as is everyone else I think.