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Ratings Roundup: 7th May 2011
May 7th
Winners and Losers From The Last 7 Days
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THE GOOD WIFE: It’s been on the bubble for the last few months but following a series of critical raves and plenty of coverage, The Good Wife finally showed signs of becoming a bona fide hit.
Tuesday night’s episode pulled in 12.38 million viewers and a 2.4 18-49 share, up 20% for the show’s highest demo share in over 6 months. I’m personally not a huge Good Wife fan but I like it a lot more than most of the other dreary CBS offerings. Plus even though I don’t watch the show regularly I couldn’t help but hear all about the big Kalinda storyline. Kudos to the show’s writers.
So will the good news for The Good Wife continue? There’s still two episodes left to go this season so I wouldn’t be surprised to see a couple more upticks in the weeks to come…
THE BORGIAS: I’m still not sure quite what I make of the show yet, but when it comes to the ratings there’s no denying that The Borgias is a nice little hit for Showtime.
Sunday night’s episode scored 824,000 viewers (and a 0.3 18-49 share). That’s well up from the 500,000 Nurse Jackie More >
Nurse Jackie: Time For An Intervention?
May 3rd
Is it just me or is Nurse Jackie somewhat off the boil this season?
We’re now several episodes into the show’s third season and while I’m still enjoying the show as a whole I’m not loving it in the way I did in year’s past. For me something just seems off about the show this time around…
Now don’t get me wrong Nurse Jackie is still entertaining and compared to sitcom slop like Outsourced and Mike and Molly it’s a work of genius. But by the lofty standards the show has set for itself I can’t help but feel that Jackie is falling short.
Ratings Roundup: 30th April 2011
Apr 30th
Winners and Losers From The Last 7 Days
WINNERS
THE VOICE: Oops it looks like we might have boo booed here at Remote Patrolled!
A few weeks ago I predicted that NBC’s new music competition series would be a big old bomb. But though I’m going to reserve full judgment until the week 2 figures come in it’s certainly looking good for the show at the moment!
Tuesday night’s premiere debuted with a strong 11.77 million viewers and a terrific 5.1 18-49 share – the second highest of the week, behind American Idol. Significantly The Voice grew its audience over the course of its two-hour opener AND a repeat the next night also performed well with 6.14 million viewers and a 2.2 youth share. For NBC these are amazing figures. And the show even put a dent into Glee which despite a 90 minute special (intended to hurt The Voice’s ratings) actually hit a season low with 8.61 million and a 3.4 18-49 share.
I think a follow up post may be in order soon!
Ratings Roundup: 23rd April 2011
Apr 23rd
Winners and Losers From The Last 7 Days
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MOB WIVES: First up this week, some good news for Vh1!
We’ve talked about the network a lot over the last few months – and most of the time it hasn’t been pretty with Vh1’s ratings in free fall for much of last year. But last week there were definite signs of recovery and this week Vh1 can even boast a bona fide hit show.
Yep, on Sunday night, new reality show Mob Wives scored 1.41 million viewers and a 0.8 18-49 share, pretty good ratings for a cable show and especially for Vh1 these days. Personally I’m a little tired of all the Real Housewives knock offs doing the rounds these days but people are watching them so I understand the network logic. Is this the beginning of a turnaround for Vh1 I wonder?
SWAMP PEOPLE: Who would have thought that a network branded History would end up becoming one of the hottest cable channels out there? But week after week the network keeps delivering mouth-watering ratings that are the envy of all its competitors.
You already know about American Pickers and Pawn Stars which often deliver in the 5-6 million viewer range, higher than many network shows More >
Ratings Roundup: 9th April 2011
Apr 9th
Winners and Losers From The Last 7 Days
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BREAKING IN: Finally, Christian Slater breaks his unlucky TV streak!
After back-to-back flops with My Own Worst Enemy and The Forgotten, it was third time’s the charm for the 80’s movie star as his Fox sitcom delivered impressive numbers in its Wednesday night premiere.
Breaking In pulled in 9.81 million viewers and a 3.5 18-49 share. Sure that’s a hefty drop from lead in American Idol (23.13 million) but Breaking also held onto more viewers than any post-Idol comedies in the last four years.
Of course the real test will come next week as we see how many of those viewers Slater holds on to. Don’t forget ABC sitcom, Mr Sunshine was looking like a hit a few weeks ago. This week it ended its run with just 4.66 million viewers and a 1.6 youth share, less than a Modern Family RE-RUN! Premiere numbers have now become fairly pointless. But let Christian enjoy the good news – a lot of people, myself included, counted him out!
Ratings Roundup – 20th Feb
Feb 20th
Winners and Losers From The Last 7 Days
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PAWNSTARS / HARDCORE PAWN: To be honest it’s hard to find many winners this week, in what has been a pretty down week across the board for the networks. Sure The Grammy Awards on Sunday scored its best ratings for a decade (26.55 million viewers), Jersey Shore is still thrashing everything on Thursday nights, bar American Idol, and speaking of Idol, the veteran talent show is still pulling in audiences in the 20 million zone (though year to year it’s down around 20%). But these are the obvious stories…
