agt_spooky | Supernatural - More ratings musings (Reply)

So I was flip-flopping again on my feelings towards the ratings for Hunted. At first I was like "Cool! Much better than the last several weeks!" Then Marc Berman had to go and call it a "loser" for the first time this season, even with the improved numbers, which totally bummed me out.

Then over at the Programming Insider forums, someone asked Marc what the odds are that SPN will be back next season and he said: "I am leaning towards it returning, inferno. Since it does normally fit well out of Smallville in a tough time period I doubt the CW would find a better fit."

So that made me feel better, if if it did just come from the guy who said "loser".

And about that comment, I also posted the ratings info over at

supernatural_tv, where

fairyd123 said: Berman only branded it a loser this week because of the low retention rates - normally we retain a slightly higher percentage of Smallville's sudience and that figure dipped slightly this week. I think Supernatural will be fine - its consistently above 3 million and both One Tree Hill and Veronica Mars have fallen below the 3 million mark this season.

Which intrigued me, because I didn't know that OTH and VM were below three million, which makes me feel a whole hell of a lot better!

And speaking of the three million mark,

_ilacemychucks was kind enough to post this breakdown since the beginning of the season:

Episode 1 (9/28/06) - Viewers: 3.93 million
Episode 2 (10/05/06) - Viewers: 3.34 million
Episode 3 (10/12/06) - Viewers: 3.78 million
Episode 4 (10/19/06) - Viewers: 3.29 million
Episode 5 (10/26/06) - Viewers: 3.65 million
Episode 6 (11/02/06) - Viewers: 3.38 million
Episode 7 (11/09/06) - Viewers: 3.19 million
Episode 8 (11/16/06) - Viewers: 3.16 million
Episode 9 (12/07/06) - Viewers: 3.20 million
Episode 10 (01/11/07) - Viewers: 3.21 million

Yeah, we've fallen since In My Time of Dying, but Hunted also improved on the previous three weeks, so I've fallen back into the "I'm happy" camp, when all's said and done. :-)

CW just needs to keep up with the kick ass promos like for Croatoan and Hunted!