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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.9/6 | 1.9/6 | 1.4/5 | 1.0/3 | 0.7/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.02 | 6.86 | 6.64 | 3.50 | 1.72 |
Ghost Whisperer was Friday’s best of the night averaging a 2.0 rating among adults 18-49 and 8.43 million viewers. Shrek The Third pulled better numbers than ABC’s typical Friday night lineup and the reruns on FOX were down to a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating — still 25% better than Dollhouse’s last original episode, but just last week Bones had a 1.2 rating with adults 18-49 at 9pm and last night it was down to a 1.0.
Smallville was down slightly from last week but still beat the rerun of House at 8pm.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Ghost Whisperer | 2.0/7 | 8.43 |
| ABC | Shrek the Third | 1.7/6 | 5.84 | |
| NBC | Law & Order | 1.5/5 | 7.52 | |
| CW | Smallville | 1.1/4 | 2.45 | |
| FOX | House (R) | 1.0/4 | 3.34 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | Shrek the Third | 2.2/7 | 6.83 |
| CBS | Medium | 1.9/6 | 7.80 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.5/5 | 7.64 | |
| FOX | Bones (R) | 1.0/3 | 3.66 | |
| CW | America’s Next Top Model (R) | 0.4/1 | 0.99 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | 20/20 | 1.8/6 | 7.92 |
| CBS | Numb3rs | 1.7/5 | 7.84 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.3/4 | 4.75 |
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Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
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Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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Bad things in store for Ghost Whisperer?
Isn’t it sad that it takes a movie for ABC to tie in demos?
Prediction: ABC to put movie night on Fridays come midseason.
Yay for Ghost Whisperer! Although I expected much more from this episode, but anyway…
Awww Smallville!
Pretty certain SV will receive a huge boost in DVR ratings, because the decrease in Live+SD viewers has to be because of New Moon, no other explanation. That, and the fact the shows on a two-month hiatus, meaning fans may take their time to catch up.
I personally don’t think it’s worth worrying about, SV will get the 250k viewers it “lost” last night from the DVR and repeats.
Last night’s Ghost Whisperer was THE BEST episode of the entire series! I really hope it sticks around
This seems as good a place as any to brag about the awesome numbers Joss was responsible for last night! That “New Moon” thingamajig was Joss’s doing, you see, as Buffy the Vampire Slayer certainly led to this “Twilight” thingy becoming big! See, Joss CAN do awesome numbers on Friday nights! He is a modest, modest, modest man, though, which is why he’s not out there right now doing interviews about how he led to this awesome, awesome box office performance!
Dollhouse forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever! Death to “Twilight”! Team Joss all the way!
For Thursday ratings there was talk of overall TV viewing being down vs. last week. I wonder if that was the case on Friday also.
Even though Numb3rs may not be what it used to, I think CBS needs to find something better than Flashpoint to fill the 10pm slot.
I messed up my recording for Smallville and so far ive seen 4/5 parts of the episode and from what I saw it was bad.
Place this on the bingo card of excuses. 70% of the Smallville episode was inaudible in NY, at least on my TV. I checked back in with Top Model to see if it did the same. It only happened once.
Anyways, great news for all shows.
Why would CBC get rid of the highest rated show on Friday nights in Ghost Whisperer? Plus its already in syndication.
chuck
- move betty to wednesdays
- put a friday movie
ABC could decide to make Friday a movie night at least for the rest of the season after it airs the remaining episodes of Dollhouse.
damn…
shreck stole law and orders audience…
move betty to wednesdays!Betty hold on!!!!!!!
Medium keeps proving every week last friday has more ratings but still very good for a friday CBS keep doing great job with Ghost Whisperer and Medium you made my night !!!
I do not want to open a loooong discussion .
But without Dollhouse FOX did worse than any friday , or am I wrong ?
I’m not too concerned about the Smallville numbers because it’s fairly obvious that the slight drop is due to the new Twilight movie. Overall this seasons ratings average is way beyond expectations considering it’s ‘death slot’. Would have been nice to get higher numbers but you can’t have everything and 9 episodes in and so far so good! Lets keep it going when Smallville returns in January!
Well, at least the Bones and House repeats didn’t completely humiliate Dollhouse, in that Dollhouse has, actually, had one or two episodes with a 1.0 this season.
Who am I kidding? This sucks. At least we already know it’s canceled.
Not great numbers for L&O, despite a VERY good episode guest-starring Elliott Gould.
Also a very entertaining episode of Medium. Increasingly clear that Numb3rs doesn’t fit the Eye network Friday “ladies’ night” mix. Wish CBS would find another place for it, instead of throwing it away. Not likely, yada yada, I know…
last night’s episode of Smallville was mostly suppose to tell us what happend to lois and what MIGHT happen in May. Also explain more about the present right now and i thought the whole bow down to ka el thing was pretty dam awsome!! Also the trailer’s for the future episodes (espeacially for the jsa) was awsome too! The show’s ratings only went down because of New Moon sam goes for the other shows.
You know what? Maybe the timeslot ISN’T the problem for Ugly Betty. I mean, if people can tune in to watch Shrek the Third on a Friday night, then why won’t people regularly tune in to see Ugly Betty during that same hour? So, perhaps it’s not a problem of people being home on a Friday night. It’s just that most viewers no longer like Ugly Betty. -shrugs-
Definitively not a fan of L&O , but I see decent performance here , In line with previous fridays and a decent third place after 20 years ………..
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I know it’s already cancelled but dollhouse average @ 1.0 like the re-runs , but it also brought alot audience at the DVR , i don’t think any one will DVR a re-run
I know it’s cancelled and i know 1.0 is low but at least give it a back 9 it’s such an amazing series that have alot of potential
Instead of what had been making the show tired (the personal lives of characters in depression), the last two weeks have a twist.
Both have featured totally entertaining guest stars that the characters bounce/are bounced off of. Best shows done in seasons.
In last night’s show, the bad guy actually got away, outsmarted the cast. Nice.
There could be a comeback here if the scripting gets its full gameplan in shape and has focus, beyond a last minute stab.
Is it too little, too late? Only the TVBTN Bingo card knows for sure.
I mean … if the only alternative at the moment are House repeats …. there is anyone who knows if FOX as some midseason replacemnt ready to start ?
UH, you are wrong. I’m not going to go back and look at all the Friday’s with DH, but on 10/23 Fox averaged a 0.8 rating for the night in the overnight ratings, which included a 0.8 for DH.
And the season average for DH (final ratings, not fast overnight) is a 0.93. For Brothers (Fri) a 0.88, and Til Death 0.73. So a 1.0 for the night is still better.
@UH: Even though the demos are low for the repeats, the fact is very simple..they’re repeats! They’ve already earned FOX A LOT of money, and they have the right to repeat each old episode at least twice, and earn even more money from them.
Yeah, they may be re-runs but the syndicated versions of House play like madhouse on USA and are pretty popular if I’m not mistaken. What’s to note here is that Fox is actually advertising those shows during the week. I’ve seen the spots for the Friday night line-up while watching some of the other Fox programs. So while it’s getting more viewers and being advertised more, it’s pulling in close numbers to Dollhouse was without much advertising (or proper advertising). Not to mention, the fact that Dollhouse had to take a week or two off because of the baseball playoffs didn’t help it out when it came back. The episode before the last one was the highest rated on of the season I think, could be mistaken. But they took it off and didn’t advertise it one second. Of course it’s going to go down. And when it comes back in December, I’m betting it’s going to be as low, maybe even lower. That’s what I’m taking away from the numbers. But it has been said, they are repeats of monster performances so it’s making a lot of money and then some. Dollhouse wasn’t making a lot of money period. I say if they started advertising it a little bit more (and properly) it might go up.
Ok Bil , I did not follow the numbers of DH becuase I know they were pretty bad ( or better I see them week by week and then I prefer to forgot them
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Wow, a Shrek 3 (The lamest of all the films) did better then any original airings of “Ugly Betty” this season? That’s very depressing.
Jason, I think you bring up an interesting point about Ugly Betty. The fact that people are willing to tune in and watch “Shrek the Third” on a Friday night but not “Ugly Betty” when it regularly airs is a telling statement. People in general are no longer into that show, plain and simple. ABC can switch it to Wednesday night if they want, but I don’t think it’ll help much in the ratings. It’ll still tank.
In defense of UB compared to Shrek, Shrek appeals to a younger audience who is more likely to stay on on Friday nights. I would be curious to see all the viewers for Shrek that are under 14
Why are we still talking about Dollhouse? FOX is getting better ratings with two reruns that cost no extra money to produce. Why would they want to spend thousands of dollars on new episodes of a show that’ll get worse ratings? Makes no sense.
I think it would help if they moved it to Wednesday nights, because even though Shrek did perform a lot better. Friday nights for a show like “Ugly Betty” just isn’t going to help it. ABC promoting it better would also help. The problem is after season two of Ugly Betty a lot of people started tuning out, and after season three so many people threw in the towel. This season has never been better though, and so many people are praising the season (Ask Ausiello, AfterElton.com, Kristen from E), but it’s not gaining back many of it’s lost viewers.
Derek, regardless of the Shrek audience under 14, more adults 18-49 wanted to watch the airing of the movie than have wanted to watch Ugly Betty on Friday this season. A lot more. Ugly Betty’s 18-49 ratings average (final, not overnight) is a 1.22.
It’s a reasonable guess that there were even more viewers under 18 as well.
@Derek: While it is true that Shrek appeals to a younger demographic, I still think it’s kind of silly to believe that Ugly Betty is tanking in the ratings because most of its viewers are out on a Friday night. The other shows that air against it in that timeslot still manage to pull in (more) viewers who are home on a Friday night, so there must be something about UB that just doesn’t turn people on.
I was about to say something about demographics, but I believe Bill Gorman and Jason covered it quite nicely. People have gotten bored with Ugly Betty.
I’m not sure promoting the show more will help much either. Look at “V” and “FlashForward”. ABC has been sending out ads for those shows, but they still continue to drop in ratings. So, how much more for Ugly Betty?
I’m sure the critics are loving this new season of Ugly Betty, but it doesn’t matter. When the viewers get tired, that’s it. The show is toast.
Looks like New Moon had some impact on Smallville #’s but I heard their were sound issues in one of the bigger markets that could have had an effect.
Yeah, it is kinda sad. Supernanny, a show that I’ve never watched nor have any interest in is doing better then Ugly Betty too. Shrek did way better and on the same day that “New Moon” was released. I mean, that doesn’t bode well for “Ugly Betty”
Bill Gorman – I wouldn’t be suprised if Shrek had alot of the parents and kids crowd watching at the same time. All that being said I think Shrek opens up a big question why TV network don’t go after the younger/family audience more. I think Ghost Whisperer does to some degree but there is no real family oriented shows on TV in general, and Fridays might be the perfect night for that.
Wow, SV dropped again. Wonder what the finals will look like. I heard it was a pretty bad episode, one of the worst for Clark.
As for UB, once you’ve lost viewers it’s hard to get them back especially when everyone knows it is the last season.
Shrek The Third was never promoted on ABC, and yet it did well in the ratings.
Kinda of shows you that advertisement and promotion is nothing nowadays.
I’m not a broadcaster, critic, or anything of the sort, but I can’t imagine why NBC isn’t cutting The Jay Leno Show loose. Sooner or later they will have to cut their losses. They likely don’t, however, have anything in the bullpen.
@Dolores-What do you mean dropped again? Last weeks episode was the highest of the season. Actually, Smallville has been on a nice steady rise since episode 2.
That’s one reason they haven’t cut Jay Leno – the other is that there are no “losses” – I’m sure Jay is still quite profitable at the ratings he is getting (or certainly cheaper than scripted content that is unlikely to get much better ratings). The person that is hurting in all this is the affiliate – and whether they have much of a say will most likely determine Jay’’s fate (I’d say it will go at least the two years of his contract).
NBC is backing Leno at least through the end of 2010, unfortunately.
Every season we go through the reasons why these shows that SHOULD be cancelled shouldn’t be (insert: cancelled tv show bingo card).
People, step back from your love and objectively realize nobody’s really watching your show.
I don’t think ABC will have movies on Fridays in mid-season, but the schedule might change slightly like this:
8:00 – America’s Funniest Home Videos
9:00 – Ugly Betty
10:00 – 20/20
ABC will have movies, repeats and burnoffs on Saturdays starting Dec. 12. Saturday Night Football ends Dec. 5. ABC won’t have two movie nights. So the Friday lineup will remain, albeit perhaps with slight alterations.
Friday night numbers have become so pathetic. Why even offer any new programming at all? Why don’t all the networks go with reruns or cheap news magazines.
James – there’s a 98 percent chance that you’re right, and Nielsen is right…
…but there’s that pesky “confidence interval” – since Nielsen only samples (the best sample that they can buy, in conformance with their corporate edict to make maximum profits while doing so), there is a very slim chance that more people are watching (insert show here) than Nielsen’s extrapolations indicate…
…note I didn’t say “incredibly more people, so many people that Regis and Kelly will be going trilingual next season!” – that would require a level of nice in America not seen since Dragnet’s Christmas episode was broadcast in 1950
Theoacme, there’s the same amount of chance that less people are watching. Why does everyone always assume ratings would go up with larger samples, not down?
As for Leno, NBC promised a 1.5 to advertisers, I don’t know if they mean a 1.5 every night or on average. So, this week’s Leno ratings were 1.4, 1.9, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.3. Divide those by 5 and you get 1.52. So, Leno is still averaging what NBC said would be profitable. Now, I can see why affiliates might be upset, but they can’t just simply blame Leno for decreases for the 11/10 central local news, it’s just an easy excuse. Here in Chicago, NBC O&O WMAQ has decreased at 10 with their news and is tied with CBS O&O WBBM. However, WMAQ has had changes in personnel and layoffs recently and their news especially as of late has had plenty of technical gaffes. So, stations can easily blame Leno, but newscast quality should have something to do with it as well.
whoa no good viewers for smallville there.
i personally loved the episode
Since the rating for last night’s House rerun weren’t MUCH better than Dollhouse’s normal ratings (and may drop further if they show any more House reruns on Fridays), I hope Fox will continue with its plan to burn off the remaining Dollhouse episodes in December (and January too).
As for a movie night for ABC, was this a broadcast premiere of Shrek the Third? I can’t imagine their movies would normally do even that well.
Still, Ugly Betty’s ratings are looking bad by comparison. No way that ABC will move it to Wednesdays. Viewers don’t come back to serialized programs once they’ve left, generally. Nor do they perform well in syndication, so I’m not sure why UB is even still on the air. (I have no agenda in saying that; I’ve never seen the show.)
offtopic but ABC shutdown production on Cougar Town.maybe they’ll premiere Romantically Challange earlier as a filler for Cougar Town if it doesnt return to production soon
Get rid of Ugly Betty for good!
What’s basically happened on this night is NBC has basically come in with Law & Order and told CBS Friday were taking you down, way down. I knew this was going to happen when it was announced that L&O was coming to Friday Nights.
CBS Friday needs a major overhaul and I predict big changes on the way before the start of next season. This should probably be Medium’s last season as it has downed the lineup to new lows. CBS should probably move something from the week and move it here to give the lineup a spark.
Shrek the Third is a sign that ABC needs to get rid of SN and UB immediately. ABC could probably move V and Flash Forward here or install that second comedy block around Romantically Challenge and really compete.
Theoacme, there’s the same amount of chance that less people are watching. Why does everyone always assume ratings would go up with larger samples, not down?
Of course the ratings would go down…for shows I don’t like. Really, the problem with Neilsen isn’t the sample size, it’s that they include people in their sample that don’t have the intelligence and taste to watch the same shows I do.
Oh man i wanted Smallville to hit the 3 million mark and it went down, but thank god not to much!
I think instead of a Top Model rerun after Smallville they should show a Smallville rerun from season 8 or somthing cause that would bring in more viewers than a Top Model rerun!
Lena…I dont think people are bored of Ub. It’s been great this year
Good for Law & Order! Hope it goes longer except these last to episodes have just been not sogood. But if they can improve. Allright.
Hilary, I’m speaking in general terms. While I’m sure there are a handful of loyal fans out there who still love Ugly Betty, the numbers basically show that a lot of the old fans who used to tune in are now gone. They’re no longer interested in watching anymore, and as others have said, they may never come back since they think the show is on its last leg this season.
It doesn’t matter that the show has had some kind of resurgence in quality this season. Frankly, it appears to be past the point of no return in ratings. Again, it’s toast.
NBC Friday, Sunday Night Football, and Days of Our Lives seem to be one of the only few entities working on NBC now in days.
Smallville was def. different. I was shocked with that “steamy love scene” what was that!>? Where did that come from? I expected better.
I was more shocked when I went to switch to Ugly Betty and saw SHREK!?! What is going on with Ugly Betty?? News going around says it will be switched to Wednesday? Well, a way to lose ratings and viewers is to keep “viewers” confused.
Do you think Smallville will have a season 10?
Hey Markets add in the evr-expanding Today show, SNL and the Biggest Loser, as well as small pockets of joy being the Office/30 Rock and L&O SVU. Not necessarily convinced Friday work for NBC, but hey the bar has been set low.
I am struggling to remember but when L&O was on NBC Friday at 10pm, I think it was pulling around a 2.0 rating in 18-49 and about 7-8 million viewers up against a stronger Numb3rs by the end of that season. It isn’t that much less now several years later at the 8pm timeslot
It’s funny how people make a big deal about Vampire Diaries slipping a bit in ratings Thursday yet they don’t create a post on how small ville fell flat. This show will not reach 3 million.
FOX House (R) 1.0/4 3.34
FOX Bones (R) 1.0/3 3.66
fox genius at work again they take dollhouse off to avoid bad #’ during sweeps…….. these arent good numbers are they? hehehe
dollouse could almost do that, and the show they canceled would be turning in better #’s than this… goin down fox goin down
As a Smallville fan, I’m pretty upset right now. Friday’s episode was delayed by state high school football championship game. And, of course, the game went long, totally botching my attempt to DVR Smallville. Now I have to wait a whole two months for another new episode. That is too long of a break. It makes no sense to me, given the roll they have been on this season. Hopefully, at least, this week’s episode will surface again before the first-runs resume.
Friday night numbers have become so pathetic. Why even offer any new programming at all?
Because the nets need a place for low-rated shows that make money via syndication/cable/dvds.
For that reason, I’d like to see FOX turn Friday into another night of animation, which also costs less. Futurama, American Dad, maybe bring back King of the Hill and the Goode Family.
Jay’s show is actually a marginal improvement on Fridays vs. last season (the one time slot where he gets bragging rights to such a claim). Of course “Lipstick Jungle” and “Friday Night Lights” set the bar nice and low. Even if NBC were to, hypothetically-speaking, cut back the number of nights he’s on (I don’t know what kind of contract he has or what kind of out they have in regards to that), 10 bucks he won’t leave Fridays. The way ratings are going, everybody’s going to be having low-cost programming on the night in the not-so-near-future. And that’s where shows like “The Jay Leno Show” come in.
That is not where shows like “Ugly Betty” come in.
lena, Im not an idiot so please dont talk to me like Im a 5 year old. I know UB isnt doing good at all in the ratings. I dont need it spelt out by you.
The only reason for the lack of viewers in my opinions is:
a) Its on a friday
b) ABC didnt promote it’s move so a lot of fans are more confused
c) the middle of season 3 was pretty boring and UB lost the most fans there
Move Numb3rs to male-dominated Sunda lineups and put Three Rivers on Friday, before or after Medium.
Julia – I never said that the actual audience would always go up – however, you were correct that I was not clear on that point…
…there would be an equal chance that the actual audience would be lower, except for the fact that we know that there is a very small, but non-zero problem with the audience generated from non-home viewing, which would be an undermeasurement at present…
…how large that factor is, we don’t know, it’s almost certainly not that large, and it’s probably not economic to measure it with the same accuracy that Nielsen estimates at-home viewing…
…but it is there, thus it is reasonable to hypothesize that the change in the actual audience from what is ‘estimated (‘measured’ implies a complete survey of the total universe of viewers, which is not what any market research firm does, for economic reasons) would more likely be an increase than a decrease.
Even so, note that I also said that the odds were that such a change in the audience, from the estimated audience Nielsen derives from its measurements, to what actually is, would be small, and may well be a decrease in the audience (although the bias should be towards an increase, given non-home sampling).
To anyone who says that Nielsen produces very good statistical estimates, I firmly agree. They do a fairly good job at that – they have to, as both the advertisers and the cable and broadcast channels insist upon this. (Nielsen does need to improve their PR and emergency planning.)
But to say that the ratings that they produce from their estimates are always correct is very sloppy statistics – and I would safely bet $100 that, if you asked the Nielsen VP in charge of television ratings, he would agree with me.
Lsat night’s episode was mainly made to show viewers what MIGHT happen in the future and gives Clark an advantage to defeating Zod. It may not have been the best and I agree it was probably one of the worst this season but they still have a good chance of getting renewed. Also with the Smallville movie coming in feburary that should push it right into the the renew isle.
Why doesn’t NBC strip Deal or No Deal five nights a week at 8/7c and push everything currently on the schedule up an hour?
Hilary: “lena, Im not an idiot so please dont talk to me like Im a 5 year old.”
LOL. Just remember, you said it. I didn’t.
Frankly, there’s nothing in your list that hasn’t been discussed before. But apparently, you’ve chosen not to read any of the other logical responses that address each and every one of your points. So, what more is there to say, right?
I went back and read the points made on UB, and I have to agree with Lena. UB is practically dead and buried already! There’s no need to respond like an overzealous/oversensitive fan, Hilary. People are just pointing out the facts, plain and simple. Shrek the Third didn’t need ABC’s promos, and it still did well. Therefore, UB can’t use that reason for it’s decline. Nor can it be said that fans aren’t aware of UB’s move to Friday night. It’s been a month now since the show has been back, so by now, fans would know when to tune in if they really want to see it. And of course Ugly Betty lost fans during previous seasons. That’s not the point. What is the point is that the fans AREN’T coming back this season.
In the end, it doesn’t matter WHY the show has a lack of viewers. All that matters is that the lack of viewers will lead to inevitable cancellation.
Steph, Based on the ratings so far, I am confident Smallville will
be renewed for a 10th season.
(btw, I thought “Pandora” was a great episode!)
Ugly Betty has been very lazy for a season and a half, which turned off more viewers than anything else. They didn’t try to put out a good show for whatever reason – maybe the comfy Thursday timeslot?
Now that they’ve moved to Fridays, they seem to be trying again. When they try, they can put together a really, really good show. And UB is just that right now – one of the better shows that ABC has – certainly better than Housewives or Grey’s Anatomy at this point. So if it does get cancelled this season, at least it’ll go out on a creative high.
I used to be a fan of Ugly Betty. BIG.
But I agree with Hillary, the show is toast! The show suffered the most when it ended Season 2 with 18 episodes. Season 3 started amazing and then it all went to heck by writing off about 6 characters and bringing all these new people who didn’t do anything for the show.
The ugly factor got old, like I said. Season 4 and it’s still the same old premise. HOWEVER: They changed Betty’s wardrobe for this season and they are slowly giving her a makeover.
What I want is that people KNOW the show is going to end that fans and former fans can get some closure. It would be a shame if such a good show just got ‘cancelled’ without airing a series finale.
“Why doesn’t NBC strip Deal or No Deal five nights a week at 8/7c”
Hmm… Strip Deal or No Deal might be an interesting twist, but I’m not sure the FCC would let them air that on broadcast TV at 8pm…
I think CW needs to use this time to promote the jan 22nd return of SV…especially with the 2 hour tv movie that follows a couple of weeks later…
…the good thing is that with Christmas Day and New Years Day on Fridays this year not to mention the holiday week for this Friday…no one will miss it or realize the extra long re-reun period it will have…
and probably with running 2 episodes back to back in Feb…they’re extending the break period to the 22nd instead of the the 15th of Jan.
Now CW – promote it like you do MP, GG & VD
Letter I wrote to NBC.
I thought I could do it and put away the jabs at my lifestyle and enjoy the storylines and acting, but the joe the plummer comment finally broke the line. I’ll no longer watch Law & Order and I’m writing the advertisers who sell to the average joe that they lost a customer too. It’s a shame and I’m saddened by the demise of a great show and actors I can no longer enjoy. Adding insult to injury you imply an average joe will kill for no good reason. Nice touch at the end. I hope Comcast tosses Mr. Zucker the first chance they have.
PANDORA was a great episode. Go SMALLVILLE!!!