Comments on: Early Wednesday Ratings: On ‘Life’ Support

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:11:01 +0000

Yeah I watch Life on Hulu only. My favorite show, bar none. I don’t have a TV, so I hope that NBC is tracking people like me too, who watch it on their website and Hulu.

The great thing about Hulu is that I was able to watch every back episode for this show on there to get caught up. Now I’m hooked and of course they’ll probably cancel it. It should be a cable show I guess because it’s kind of a quirky show that doesn’t have the mass sex appeal and that nonsense that they want on the nets.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:31:28 +0000

Life is one of my top 3 shows. I got into it on Hulu but now watch in real-time. I hope others find it.

By: FrankJ

FrankJ — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:19:35 +0000

Outlander, just to clarify…you’re blaming the cratering on the story, writing and acting being absolutely atrocious, right? Because while I’m no expert I do feel I can say with some amount of certainty that in the history of television I don’t think actresses prancing around in bikinis have ever been the cause of poor ratings.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:59:53 +0000

I love Life. Hope it doesn’t get canceled.

By: Outlander

Outlander — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:22:46 +0000

Gee, Wednesday night appears wide open. What well written and well acted scifi drama might be a good fit for a certain network????? *cough* TSCC…

It’s not surprising that Knight Rider cratered. There are only so many times you can watch the stupid car turn into an SUV and see the actress prance around in bikinis and cheerleader outfits before even the 18-35 male set gets bored. The Hoff had the personality to pull Knight Rider off.

By: Cool

Cool — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:09:13 +0000

Mmm no, NBC should cancel Life. Three time slots, three failures.

By: snooty

snooty — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:00:30 +0000

When I first heard LIFE was moving to Wed, I applauded the move. It wasn’t until last night I realized it was being moved to the same time slot as Criminal Minds, a perennial top-ten show. Is NBC frickin’ nuts? Put it in the late slot, and see how it does.

By: Watch Chuck on NBC

Watch Chuck on NBC — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:58:11 +0000

Maybe NBC should really consider the reality show “MILF Island.” For those of you who watch 30 Rock, you will get that.

By: Cool

Cool — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:48:10 +0000

Good, now Life can be death.

By: Monic

Monic — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:46:59 +0000

Oh, man… that’s a sad number to see. And I was feeling so hopeful. I don’t want this show to be gone. I know it’s not as fantastic as it was in the first season but it’s still my favorite show. I kind of thought that airing night after the elections was kind of dubious. But now I also agree with Andrea, Law and Order should have been the lead-in to Life and not the other way around.

By: JT

JT — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:29:07 +0000

You know what they say, what is old becomes new again.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:11:33 +0000

On your screen for next year (possibly):

NBC–”The Partridge Family” (as a single cam)
FOX–”Absolutely Fabulous”
CBS–”Hawaii Five-0″ and “The Streets of San Francisco”.

Hummmm. Have I heard of these shows before?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:06:50 +0000

Steeeve Nielsen is a panel based system and from a statistical point of view even though you, your friends (and me) aren’t Nielsen families, our viewing is reprsented by others on the panel.

but yes, either via its people meter technology (used for all the numbers above) it can (and does) measure cable channel viewing and can and does measure DVR viewing.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:04:37 +0000

Kathy,

I wouldn’t guess on anything NBC does. Come on, Knight Rider got a full season with those numbers and more people watched Life.

Like I said before, Life should have never moved from 10pm Wednesdays. It’s now in its 4th timeslot–can anybody find this show? It would make better sense for L&O to be the lead in for Life.

Anyway, if NBC cancels it, whatever, they can keep their other low-rated crap. Even Ben Silverman said Kath & Kim sucked, but because of it’s barely marginal numbers, they’ll keep it, and hope that the show gets better because the actors deserved it!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:58:02 +0000

So sad to hear about Life. It looks like I’ll be losing Life, Pushing Daisies & Eli Stone by January and Terminator by May.

By: Thunder Mountain

Thunder Mountain — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:57:16 +0000

NBC is really going down the tubes. No wonder so many say NBC stands for “Nothing But Crap”. Maybe they could make a sitcome starring crotchety Keith Olbermann and Al Franken as 2 guys in a domestic partnership, then hillarity ensues as they discover Bill O’Reilly just moved in next door. With Will and Grace off the air, it might work.

By: Steeve

Steeve — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:52:43 +0000

I have a question about the Nielsen ratings, do they pull any information from cable companies? What I mean is a lot of cable companies require you to have cable boxes and I am assuming with the new digital cable boxes they can track what you watch or DVR if you have one(or am I wrong on this?). What I really
want to know is unless Neilson contacts you to be one of their viewers they dont count anything else so it really does not matter what I watch or friends watch. Unless you are a Neilson viewer, what everyone else watches does not
count for anything in the ratings.

By: Thunder Mountain

Thunder Mountain — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:51:01 +0000

LIFE support? Oh, I get it! Hahahahhahahhahahahhahaa!

Maybe Ned from Pushing Daisies can touch LIFE and bring it back from the dead? But then another show would drop dead if it he didnt kill it again right away – Id pick Knight Rider – cant stand the new version, put THE HOFF back in the real KITT (not the current lame imitation).

Speaking of which when are they bringing back Air Wolf (Is Jan Michael Vincent out of rehab yet? Hes 64, but with a little makeup… and Ernest Borgnine isnt dead yet either, at 91 hes a tough old bird – I heard he pleasures himself to keep his heart beating – The Soup clip was hilarious) and the A Team (3 of the 4 guys arent dead yet, get Leslie Nielsen to replace George Peppard).

By: DaisiesDeathKnell

DaisiesDeathKnell — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:48:58 +0000

Let’s hope Law & Order is finally removed from our schedules, clearing the way for The Simpsons forever holding the record for a primetime series with the same characters.

By: LBColby

LBColby — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:41:27 +0000

Berman says that “Law & Order” fell 39% in comparison with its 2-hour season 18 opener which aired in January. There was little competition at the time because of the strike, but that’s nevertheless quite a significant decrease. NBC must be very unhappy with last night’s figures. Their revamped crime Wednesday is a flop.