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Comedy Central 'Friends' Week 1 Scheduling
Sat 1st October: 8am-9pm Non Stop Friends Sun 2nd October: 8am-8pm Non Stop Friends Weekdays thereafter: 8am-10am, 2pm-7pm, 8pm-9pm, around midnight-1am They are certainly getting their money's worth. Seriously though, this show should dramatically improve the channel's fortunes.The final play of The Last One on E4 drew around 400k on E4 and 187k on +1 on Sunday 4th September, excluding the later repeat. Generally Comedy Central's most popular programmes rate in the 100-200k range. ![]() i think i'll just take a break for XF ![]()
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Comedy Central 'Friends' Week 1 Scheduling
Sat 1st October: 8am-9pm Non Stop Friends Sun 2nd October: 8am-8pm Non Stop Friends Weekdays thereafter: 8am-10am, 2pm-7pm, 8pm-9pm, around midnight-1am They are certainly getting their money's worth. Seriously though, this show should dramatically improve the channel's fortunes.![]() Alarmingly, though, as you say such a ham-fisted move will probably work wonders for the ratings! Quote:
NBC wins the first night of the season with a 2.3, I can't see it getting much better for them this season - The Office will probably fall, 30 Rock is gone until mid-season and the one comedy that managed to improve its ratings last year (Parks and Rec) has been put in the 'sacrificial' slot against TXF, I think they'll be safely in P4 again this season.
That said a 2.3 isn't *too* bad by their current standards, however, the season gets properly underway next week - so it'll probably bomb. To be honest, mid-season is really where its at for NBC. They'll be hoping The Voice can stabilise or grow thanks to a Superbowl premiere - and they've then got their best looking pair of dramas in Smash and Awake to place into the schedule. If we're going to see any sort of NBC revival this season, I think it hinges on those three shows. |
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The fall probably won't be much fun (aside from Sunday Night Football). There looks like quite a number of candidates to flop spectacularly - and a few dodgy returning shows that are going to struggle in their timeslots. Tuesdays and Thursdays will probably never descend into complete failure thanks to established shows - but Mondays and Wednesdays look very vulnerable indeed. Clearly the fate of the two comedies that premiere tonight is very important.
To be honest, mid-season is really where its at for NBC. They'll be hoping The Voice can stabilise or grow thanks to a Superbowl premiere - and they've then got their best looking pair of dramas in Smash and Awake to place into the schedule. If we're going to see any sort of NBC revival this season, I think it hinges on those three shows. ). I'm a little worried for The Voice, the ratings fell towards the end of S1 (which can probably be attributed to it running over into summer) the Superbowl launch should help it though. With the returning shows I can't actually think of any (bar Voice) that are on solid ground. Office will drop this year, 30 Rock hit new lows last year, Harry's Law will probably fall. It's gonna be an interesting ride . CBS are looking the strongest overall this season as usual, but will be topped by Fox's 16-34 giant, Idol (and X Factor?).
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FOX has two gambles, the first is The X Factor which is a test whether FOX can dominate the Fall Season as Idol always helps them and the other is Terra Nova which is a hugely expensive drama series which needs to be big if it is justify its budget but its been plagued with problems.
CBS' big gambles are the revamped Two and a Half Men which I think will open big but the following episodes have to work and the other is Person of Interest which has great creative credentials and CBS' so confident that it put it on Thursday and displacing CSI from its timeslot after 10 years. |
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I've always wondered what the lowest rating ever of recent history is?
Has anything ever received close to zero viewers? or at least under 40,000 or something? |
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I've always wondered what the lowest rating ever of recent history is?
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I've always wondered what the lowest rating ever of recent history is?
Has anything ever received close to zero viewers? or at least under 40,000 or something? |
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If NBC can get a solid Monday going from midseason then this season will have been a success for them. It might have to be a long term plan - tackling one night a year and building up a decent schedule.
Football has been massive so far - another all time high on Sunday with 25.8m. With The Superbowl as well, that's a huge boost for NBC. Of course, they'll need it in the fall. I think The Playboy Club is a strong candidate to be one of the first cancellations of the season. It's hard to guage how well The Sing Off will hold up against DWTS. And Wednesdays look really weak. In fact, NBC's biggest shot at a hit show this fall is probably the ITV Studios produced Prime Suspect. But with a lead-in from a (potentially weak) sitcom and stiff competition, even that is in for a difficult ride. ABC's male comedy block has all the makings of a total disaster. But DWTS and Body of Proof should hold ensure Tuesdays stay respectable (albeit they'll be 4th). Wednesday should be OK - 10pm may be an issue again, though (as it has been for a decade). But perhaps Revenge can squeeze out an audience between CSI and Law Order: SVU? Sunday is the big night for ABC - 2 new shows and both fairly risky. I give Pan Am more hope than The Playboy Club, especially with the Desperate Housewives lead-in. But Once Upon A Time doesn't seem like hit material. I think ABC could be in for a difficult season. CBS have their big 9pm gamble with Person of Interest. I'm not really sure what it will do - it seems like one of those shows that could be a big hit or a total bomb. And How To Be A Gentleman at 8.30pm looks poor so if they both fail, Thursdays are going to become an issue (and The Mentalist will feel the pain as well). Unforgettable seems like the kind of thing that ought to go over well on CBS with a nice slot as well. I'm guessing that Two and a Half Men starts up from last year but ends up losing quite a bit by Christmas. FOX are the most interesting for me. Glee is likely to start down from last year. But I'd imagine New Girl will do better than Running Wilde so the 9pm hour on Tuesdays ought to be stronger. But it's all about the big shows - Terra Nova and X Factor. They don't even need to do anything too big to ensure that FOX win September-December. Of course, history tells us that no matter how lofty the ambition, there's every chance that they could both be down at 2.0 by November sweeps if they don't connect with audiences. |
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Channel 5 was close to zero on the day of the Royal Wedding. Some reports actually rounded it down to zero. So the chances are some channels did hit zero on that day.
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CBS have their big 9pm gamble with Person of Interest. I'm not really sure what it will do - it seems like one of those shows that could be a big hit or a total bomb. And How To Be A Gentleman at 8.30pm looks poor so if they both fail, Thursdays are going to become an issue (and The Mentalist will feel the pain as well). Unforgettable seems like the kind of thing that ought to go over well on CBS with a nice slot as well. I'm guessing that Two and a Half Men starts up from last year but ends up losing quite a bit by Christmas.
FOX are the most interesting for me. Glee is likely to start down from last year. But I'd imagine New Girl will do better than Running Wilde so the 9pm hour on Tuesdays ought to be stronger. But it's all about the big shows - Terra Nova and X Factor. They don't even need to do anything too big to ensure that FOX win September-December. Of course, history tells us that no matter how lofty the ambition, there's every chance that they could both be down at 2.0 by November sweeps if they don't connect with audiences. It'll be interesting how American Idol does in the aftermath of The X Factor, ideally FOX would want both show to do 20m each although I think X Factor will cannibalise it a little. |
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I wonder how Ghost hunting with the only way is essex will do?
as its TOWIE I think it may get better ratings. |
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I've always wondered what the lowest rating ever of recent history is?
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Indeed, loads of channels on Sky most have a rating of 0 most of the time.
Does anyone have a record of the overnights for previous Waterloo Road series premieres, so we know what to compare with when the ratings come out tomorrow? |
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Here's the series averages if that helps - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=269
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Indeed, loads of channels on Sky most have a rating of 0 most of the time.
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US Final Ratings - Tuesday 13th September
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8pm - It's Worth What? - 4.78m (1.2) 9pm - America's Got Talent - 13.67m (3.8) 10pm - Parenthood - 6.29m (2.2) CW: 8pm - 90210 - 1.61m (0.9) 9pm - Ringer - 2.84m (1.2) America's Got Talent was down 2.5% from last seasons final performance show. NBC stuck with It's Worth What? all summer despite it being a total flop. Parenthood was adjusted down. Preliminary ratings showed it shed a large amount of the AGT lead-in over the hour. 90210 was moved up in finals to match last year in adults 18-49 although it was down 18% in total viewers which could potentially have an impact on the numbers in the A18-34/W18-34 ratings. |
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The trailer for the new series of Waterloo Road seems a bit meh compared to previous ones, nothing particularly outstanding being shown. Hopefully the actual show will be more exciting.
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The problem Big Brother has is that it has no momentum. What's there to talk about the show other than the Housemates trying to get their end away?
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Channel 4 have harmed another programme through over exposure, with Embarrassing Bodies now down on it' s usual figure. The Simpsons and Hollyoaks are doing a decent job in the 6pm hour. Dispatches struggled slightly against the soap hour, though it did at least get above 1m.
I'm not sure it deserved too - it was another weak exposee episode promising to out a big name and then it being somebody you've never heard off.I do think next week though they should have moved it to 9pm and renamed it something like My Big Fat Gypsy Eviction. Quote:
Far worse things were shown when it was on Channel 4, but then it is an adult 18+ show and clearly billed as such. Hopefully it doesn't get too grubby though.
I think they need to be thinking hard about the live show on Friday, likely to be the most watched of the week. Intitial numbers for the series very disappointing. Have they played their trump card too early in Pamela Anderson, or have they got something else up their sleeve? I was wondering about Sat or Sun going sub-1m but with it's 11pm slot and probably nothing more than the eviction interview of a first evictee it could well hit that low on Friday. The same applies to C5 as it did to C4 - put it all in a 90-minute show at 9pm and BB would certainly on average rate better - and I doubt the show pushed from 10pm to 10.30pm would rate much worse. Quote:
Television channels seem to love bizarre scheduling for some reason. Why on Earth give a new show a week's break for people to 'lose' it in the schedules? I know Big Brother Launch took its slot, but why not pull everything back a day and launch Big Brother on a Thursday with The Bachelor remaining at 10pm on the Friday?
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Well that's the second and last series for 71 Degrees North then.
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Surely the die-hard audience are by definition the ones who will watch it regardless, so perhaps 1.5 million is the size of that audience?
BB has always had a core audience and a casual audience - and for the first few years that core audience remained very stable at around 3.5-4m, with the casual audience then basically determining whether a series was a hit or not. Inevitably around BB8 the core audience began to drift away slowly - and then in BB10 I'd say around 30-50% of them turned off completely - partly due the live feed issue, partly down to the very weak start to the series and partly because that core audience was expecting the series to undergo a much needed overhaul that simply didn't happen. Those three issues were addressed to some extent in BB11 and the core audience rose back to around the 2.5m mark - but those three issues have returned now with BB12 - and although the live feed is a factor for many the biggest problem is the show has no identity on C5 - they've pretty much picked up from where it left off and done nothing of note with it. And the "Golden Swimsuit" twist was just too damn predictable - immunity is the most obvious twist of all. I remember the days when BB fans would spend months speculating about the twist BB would come up with - and never even come close to guessing what they were. I really don't see how C5 could save the series now - it's far easier to relaunch it from the beginning of a series than part way through. The big problem is though even if they did come up with the most amazing twist ever, people clearly don't care about the housemates - and if they don't care about the housemates, they won't care about how such a twist affects them. |
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Does anyone have a record of the overnights for previous Waterloo Road series premieres, so we know what to compare with when the ratings come out tomorrow?
Series 1 (Mar 2006) - 5.2m Series 2 (Jan 2007) - 5.0m Series 3a (Oct 2007) - 5.1m Series 3b (Jan 2008) - 5.2m Series 4 (Jan 2009) - 4.6m Series 5a (Oct 2009) - 5.0m Series 5b (Apr 2010) - 4.5m Series 6a (Sep 2010) - 5.0m Series 6b (Feb 2011) - 4.6m Series 7a (May 2011) - 4.9m It's worth noting that the first 3 series aired on Thursdays after EE which boosted it a bit. Series 4 aired in one 20 week block rather than 2 separate runs. I think it'll have been at the top end of those launches tonight, if not the highest ever premiere. It was a very good episode too and set the series up nicely. I like the new head already. |
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The Doc Martin profile is not too dis-similar to New Tricks
Perhaps they should let BBC1 pick it up... ![]() (wouldn't be the first Clunes hit series where that had happened!) |
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I'm not losing faith in Big Brother yet. Tonight's episode was the best since it moved to 5. Can only hope it's reflected in the ratings tomorrow.
In others news I see former 5 News / Sky News / GMTV presenter Helen Fospero is the latest presenter to find work on the National Lottery Draws. Such a shame she doesn't still have a mainstream news gig. |
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IIn others news I see former 5 News / Sky News / GMTV presenter Helen Fospero is the latest presenter to find work on the National Lottery Draws. Such a shame she doesn't still have a mainstream news gig.
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is it really bad, that when I think of her, I think of Look North?
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The series premieres have rated as follows (all overnights):
Series 3a (Oct 2007) - 5.1m Series 5a (Oct 2009) - 5.0m Series 6a (Sep 2010) - 5.0m The Autumn series starts seem very consistant even though the scheduling isn't as those launches are across a 9 week period. In the old days you knew exactly when Autumn favourites like Noel's House Party were going to start every year. It is the same now with the likes of Strictly. With Waterloo Road though series 6 in 2010 actually started so early (1st Sept I think) it finished in the same week as series 5 in 2009 had begun in the previous year (last week in Oct), which itself was so late it had to run across Christmas. This year's start is much more ideal. It nicely avoided Red or Black week (yes I know) and probably avoids I'm a Celeb. |
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Seriously though, this show should dramatically improve the channel's fortunes.
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