And when the absolute final numbers are posted later tonight, All Hell may slip down down to last place. How could the first part of a season finale do so badly?? This makes me so incredibly frustrated.
Barb, first of all, I certainly feel your frustration. How are people not flocking to this show? But both GA and CSI had some stunt May sweeps stuff (Lady Heather was back on CSI and GA - well, I really have no idea what they were doing but I remember seeing lots of commercials), and for some reason there seem to be a lot of people who need to find out if they are smarter than a 5th grader. Well, we know we are because we are smart enough to watch SPN!
Travis posted the final numbers to Marc's forum - they were (I'm including SV, too, for comparison):
The site further states: This new and updated schedule was provided by someone who works closely with the CW for their promotions and who was given these combinations to work with for graphic designs.
I personally would love to see SPN moved to Sunday, for several reasons. First, anything is better than Thursday at 9:00. Second, Desperate Housewives, while still pulling in fairly large numbers, is down a lot from last year and hopefully will continue to fall. I tried to keep watching it after they unceremoniously dropped RB as a regular, but I frankly got tired of the continuing saga of Susan's bad choices, the annoying new Scavo child and her crazy mother, etc., etc. I watch Cold Case at 9:00 now, but only because I have no reason to change the channel after The Amazing Race. I checked Marc's column for last Sunday night at 9:00 and found this:
ABC dominated at 9 p.m. courtesy of Desperate Housewives at 16.92 million viewers and a 6.5/16 among adults 18-49, but one year earlier the final national performance was a considerably heftier 21.33 million viewers and an 8.6/20 among adults 18-49. Do the math, and that’s a decrease of 4.41 million viewers and 24 percent among adults 18-49. Am I the only one fed up with Susan’s annoying shtick? How did Mike happen to find her in the woods so easily? CBS’ competing, and older-skewing, Cold Case was second in total viewers (13.63 million) but fourth among adults 18-49 (3.2/8).
NBC that night had a special SNL program - they usually air Deal or No Deal there - I think DOND is going to wear itself out, much like Who Wants to be a Millionaire did a few years ago.
I think SPN would pull in a different viewer, guys that don't watch DH, younger people that don't watch Cold Case, etc. And like you, Barb, I remember how well XF did in the time period for lots of years. And for a purely selfish reason, I would finally have something to watch again after 9:00 on Sundays.
If this schedule is in fact true, I hope the fact that CW will be rerunning SPN on Sunday nights this summer will get people use to seeing the show there.
Lastly, someone posted a link to a site where someone uploaded one of those Verizon special clips, this one from next week's episode (I predict it will be a director's cut soon). I know you won't want to watch it, Barb - it is definitely spoilery, but in case anyone here does want to see it, go here:
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The final numbers actually went up a little - and a rumored CW schedule
Date: 2007-05-12 10:53 am (UTC)Barb, first of all, I certainly feel your frustration. How are people not flocking to this show? But both GA and CSI had some stunt May sweeps stuff (Lady Heather was back on CSI and GA - well, I really have no idea what they were doing but I remember seeing lots of commercials), and for some reason there seem to be a lot of people who need to find out if they are smarter than a 5th grader. Well, we know we are because we are smart enough to watch SPN!
Travis posted the final numbers to Marc's forum - they were (I'm including SV, too, for comparison):
Smallville
- 3.430 million viewers
- 2.2/4 HH
- 1.4/4 A18-49
- 1.5/6 A18-34
Supernatural
- 2.901 million viewers
- 1.7/3 HH
- 1.2/3 A18-49
- 1.2/4 A18-34
So we still had 85% retention out of SV, which is good in anyone's book, especially considering the competition.
And there is a rumored CW schedule making the rounds:
Monday
Everybody Hates Chris
Aliens in America
Girlfriends
The Game
Tuesday
Beauty and the Geek
One Tree Hill
Wednesday
America's Next Top Model
Gossip Girl
Thursday
Smallville
Reaper
Friday
WWE Smackdown!
Saturday
Off the air
Sunday
CW Now
Viewsers
Wild at Heart
Supernatural
Midseason
The World According to Barnes
The site that posted this (and it has been repeated on one of Marc's forums) is here:
http://www.nku.edu/~manningj1/PilotBuzzCentral.htm
The site further states: This new and updated schedule was provided by someone who works closely with the CW for their promotions and who was given these combinations to work with for graphic designs.
I personally would love to see SPN moved to Sunday, for several reasons. First, anything is better than Thursday at 9:00. Second, Desperate Housewives, while still pulling in fairly large numbers, is down a lot from last year and hopefully will continue to fall. I tried to keep watching it after they unceremoniously dropped RB as a regular, but I frankly got tired of the continuing saga of Susan's bad choices, the annoying new Scavo child and her crazy mother, etc., etc. I watch Cold Case at 9:00 now, but only because I have no reason to change the channel after The Amazing Race. I checked Marc's column for last Sunday night at 9:00 and found this:
ABC dominated at 9 p.m. courtesy of Desperate Housewives at 16.92 million viewers and a 6.5/16 among adults 18-49, but one year earlier the final national performance was a considerably heftier 21.33 million viewers and an 8.6/20 among adults 18-49. Do the math, and that’s a decrease of 4.41 million viewers and 24 percent among adults 18-49. Am I the only one fed up with Susan’s annoying shtick? How did Mike happen to find her in the woods so easily? CBS’ competing, and older-skewing, Cold Case was second in total viewers (13.63 million) but fourth among adults 18-49 (3.2/8).
NBC that night had a special SNL program - they usually air Deal or No Deal there - I think DOND is going to wear itself out, much like Who Wants to be a Millionaire did a few years ago.
I think SPN would pull in a different viewer, guys that don't watch DH, younger people that don't watch Cold Case, etc. And like you, Barb, I remember how well XF did in the time period for lots of years. And for a purely selfish reason, I would finally have something to watch again after 9:00 on Sundays.
If this schedule is in fact true, I hope the fact that CW will be rerunning SPN on Sunday nights this summer will get people use to seeing the show there.
Lastly, someone posted a link to a site where someone uploaded one of those Verizon special clips, this one from next week's episode (I predict it will be a director's cut soon). I know you won't want to watch it, Barb - it is definitely spoilery, but in case anyone here does want to see it, go here:
http://www.zshare.net/video/ahbl2-wmv.html
OMG, I'm trying to figure out how they get out of this but, oh, our poor, broken Dean . . . .
Is it Thursday yet?