I wanted to take a moment to cull out a couple of cable ratings tidbits separate from our weekly cable top twenty (plus much more!).
TNT can’t be happy with the results for its new show Trust Me. Because the show focuses on advertising it is often compared to Mad Men. But now it’s pulling Mad Men style numbers, which is OK if you are on AMC like Mad Men is, but probably not OK if you’re on TNT like Trust Me. Last week in its first Tuesday at 10 pm airing, it averaged 1.053 million. The previous week on Monday night at 10pm it drew 1.646 million.
So now TNT has a struggling Saving Grace, and a struh-guh-ling Trust Me. TNT is also where Charles Barkley does basketball commentary and that reminded that Barkley who has done his time for his DUI, and is starring in the Haney Project on the Golf channel where Tiger Woods’ coach Hank Haney tries to fix Sir Charles’ most bizarre golf swing. It pulled 435,000 viewers last Monday (3/2) in its premiere on the Golf Channel, and I’m sure Golf is very happy about those numbers seeing as how they were higher than anything else on the network for the week.
What it really got me thinking though was, wow, Tiger going out in the 2nd round of the Accenture match play event (the second round was on a Thursday) really hurt exposure for the Haney Project. Had Tiger made it to the last day, or even to Saturday, many, literally millions more people would’ve seen the Golf Channel ads for the show aimed at fixing Barkley’s swing than wound up actually seeing it.
Bye, bye Trust Me. There is no chance that TNT give this series second season…
Thank you, I was curious about how it did without The Closer.
eh, Saving Grace and Trust Me are awful awful shows… glad to see the viewing public agrees.
@Holly, I’d sent you an e-mail (at the only address I have for you) about your request. Not sure you saw it…
Thanks, I hadn’t checked, but this post answers my question anyway.
Great headline for this repot, Robert. Made me laugh almost as much as an episode of 24.
I enjoy Trust Me and LOVE SAVING GRACE! I doubt Trust Me will be back for a 2nd season but fortunately Saving Grace has already been renewed for a 3rd… Holly Hunter is the best.
I LOVE “Trust Me.” I will be really bummed if TNT cancels it – Eric & Tom have great chemistry & the whole thing is really fun.
I like Trust Me. Its got its flaws, but Cavanagh and McCormack play nicely off each other. The problem is that the show doesn’t have a running storyline to play off of. If you missed a week it’s not the end of the world, because they can wrap up what happened with a sentence or two of throw-away dialogue. That’s never a good thing for a drama.
I love Trust Me, Tom&Eric are a great couple, and the show has a huge potential. It reminds me somehow of Studio 60, good show with some flaws, being beaten too much by the ratings.
It reminds me also of Studio 60, because I think Sorkin would’ve made something really special from this show.
TNT would be better off showing repeats of Law and Order…
Trust Me seems to be picking up steam. The character development is coming along nicely. I really think this is a no-brainer pickup for another season.
I LOVE “Trust Me!”
I will be very disappointed if it’s canceled. I love how quirky Connor is; his character is fun to watch. Mason & Connor are so great together. They have totally won me over. Sarah is so awkward you can’t help but feel for her; I just love the entire show.
Trust me is in my top 3 must watch shows and I think it’s fantastic. I really hope the show gets picked up for a second season because it’s very entertaining. It’s got some fantastic humor and believable dram segments. I’m actually surprised how much I have liked the show and make sure to never miss an episode (now we get 2 episodes every week!). My other favorite new shows this season is “Lie To Me” on Fox & “Eastbound & Down” on HBO, respectively.
Has there been any word on how the show is going? I’m having trouble finding anything relating to the numbers coming in or prospects for a second season. How many episodes have been greenlit for season one?
Dingo, I’ll be the first to admit that for many things, our site search available at the top right of the site is practically worthless. However, for “The Haney Project” it’s very useful. There you will find pretty much all the ratings (so far) for the show between this write up:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/03/29/the-haney-project-despite-tiny-nielsen-ratings-its-compelling-television/15395
and the most recent weekly cable top 20:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/03/31/kids-choice-awards-penguins-of-madagascar-and-wwe-raw-lead-cable/15549
If you were asking about Trust Me, the last episode got less than 400,000 viewers and a 0.2 in the demo. I’m going to guess that repeats of Charmed could beat that. (numbers from Travis Yanan on pifeedback.com)
For the week of 3/23-29, the 20 different Charmed episodes drew between 614,000 and 1.118 million viewers
D’oh. Of course he meant Trust Me!
For pretty much every week it has aired, the numbers are published in the weekly cable posts but we won’t post the numbers for this past Monday until Tuesday. Given it had a one week hiatus, I’m not particularly surprised it dropped down from 619K to less than 400K, but it is still sad.