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Fox Cartoons, ABC Dramedies And NBC Football All Hit Season Lows!! 60 MINUTES & AMAZING RACE Climb!! Sunday Ratings!!
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The 18-49 overnights (prior weeks in parentheses):
5.5 (6.2) (5.6) Indianapolis vs. Tennessee
4.5 (4.9) (5.2) Family Guy
4.4 (4.9) (4.5) Desperate Housewives
3.8 (4.2) (4.9) The Cleveland Show
3.7 (2.3) (3.3) 60 Minutes
3.6 (4.3) (4.2) The Simpsons
3.4 (3.5) (3.6) American Dad
3.1 (2.8) (3.2) The Amazing Race
3.0 (3.4) (3.1) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
2.9 (3.2) (3.0) Brothers & Sisters
2.2 (2.2) (----) America’s Funniest Home Videos
1.9 (2.0) (----) Three Rivers
1.7 (2.2) (1.9) Cold Case
1.1 (----) (----) Brothers
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2.1 Baseball Playoffs (7pm)
1.5 Baseball Playoffs (10:40pm)
1.3 Army Wives
1.2 Girls Next Door
0.9 Drop Dead Diva
0.6 Mad Men
0.5 Curb Your Enthusiasm
0.5 Dexter
0.3 Bored To Death
0.3 Californication
* NBC’s football, Fox’s animated sitcoms and ABC’s dramedies all hit season lows. (Recall that the 2009 premieres of "Desperate Housewives" and "Brothers & Sisters" already fell 37% and 35% respectively from their 2008 premieres; both shows are now below even those levels.)
* “60 Minutes” got a big boost from CBS’ football overrun, but ratings momentum drained away by the time the network’s “Three Rivers” and “Cold Case” rolled around; both dramas hit season lows.
* Fox snuck a new episode of “Brothers” in at 7 p.m. (TV Guide told us to expect a “Cleveland” repeat) and, in its first airing outside the Fox Friday Death Slot, the Strahan sitcom hit its (very low) best number ever.
James Hibberd’s analysis is here.
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no mention of Venture Brothers next Sunday? You're slipping man...
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Oct 12, 2009 5:52:30 PM CDT
Of course nobody watched football, it was 4-0 team vs. 0-4 team!
by tall_boy66
Who in their right mind would sit through Colts / Titans?
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Haven't watched it yet, but want a talkback! I thought someone was doing that for ya, Herc?
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Probably the most likable team is now gone because of a misplaced passport.
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No review of Dexter this week. Next week maybe.
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Very well written, more of an emotional core then quick gags and a lame story. In fact this season so far has been better then the last. Shame it isn't getting the ratings something like The manatee writen family guy gets, but i can't see FOX being too woried about lower ratings, The simpsons franchise as a whole brings in more money in merchandise then most other shows on TV. I don't do alot of TV work, but damn i would kill to pen a simpsons script
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Oct 12, 2009 6:42:37 PM CDT
If Fox can try Brothers on another night then why not Dollhouse?
by sighborg
So, Fox is not incapable of moving a show to another night to see how it does. Then what's the excuse for leaving Dollhouse in the Friday death slot? Has it ever been tried on another night? Was Firefly ever tried on another night?
Why not? -
HBO's shows, Mad Men...how do they stack up? Do they track and/or release ratings for them? Are they even close to the network shows? Yeah, sweet, k thanks man...
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You're absolutely right. I had the EXACTLY thought when I read that Brothers (which, I might add, is god-awful) was tried on Sunday. To answer your question, Fox did not try moving Firefly before canceling it, but given the fact that they ran the episodes out of order and didn't have much faith in it from the get-go, it seems like they didn't even want to try. Fox seems to have more faith in Dollhouse, which makes me happy and confused as to why they were so negative about Firefly. For what it's worth, Fox did move Wonderfalls to a new time slot ... and then canceled in the following week.
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Always fucking great stories!
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One of the tasks was taking apart a VCR. Really?
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Though had the Titans won, my opinion would be different.
To be fair, when the game was scheduled, it looked like a good match-up. Who would've thought the Titans would be winless at this point. They were supposed to have been a Super Bowl contender. -
That was the "Who Cares?" game of the week. The Colts are the most boring good team in football and the Titans not only suck this year, but are boring to watch even when they are good. Frankly, I'm surprised they didn't grab Miami-New York whehn making the schedule and kick the Colts-Titans to the cub on Monday night.
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To stop the Macfarlane dynasty.
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So what? It still won the night.
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Only comment when Family Guy ratings are down, eh? Hahaha.
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Oct 12, 2009 11:47:27 PM CDT
Who cares about 18-49 when it's the 50+ who are still watching T
by flim springfield
They also have all the money.
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The Colts are the greatest team in NFL history!!!!! Peyton's going to another Super Bowl baby!
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Used to watch the fox sunday cartoon lineup. I got tired of it being interrupted with Football. Then I saw Dexter. That cured me of Sunday animation domination.
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Oct 13, 2009 10:42:27 AM CDT
Cleavland show is a giant black hole of suckness.
by doctor_leonard_mccoy
And it will drag in everything around it until it is stopped.
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I like your trend analysis on the ratings. I would encourage you to keep this coming through the Spring.
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since it could never start on time thanks to CBS Sports.
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Oct 13, 2009 12:57:40 PM CDT
Not surprising about COLD CASE since it started at 10:45 p.m. ES
by spyguy
Why the hell does CBS even bother scheduling 60 MINUTES at 7 p.m. on Sunday nights? It never starts on time because of teh footballs.
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and honestly, I wasn't sad at all. Right about the part where they're discussing the need to validate the 'teaser info' from the Nazi guy, it just stops and i notice that its at the end of the recording (we had a world-ending thunderstorm that night).
I remember feeling relieved. Im done with the show completely - this was a sign from God to stop watching it.
I should have stopped when that black woman showed up from Homeland security. I used to write characters light that when I was doing one-scene plays in middle school. She was a walking CARTOON. And Fienne's boss, who I think is the "omg did that AFLAC duck just TALK?" guy, is equally bad. -
Where the hell is the Sons of Anarchy talk back?
Best show on tv right now bar none! -
She was Mandy in the scene at Cleveland's locker where she opened up a can of whoop on poor Cleve.
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Sports with different games every week are never going to be consistent. There are some people who watch football every Sunday night because they like watching whatever game is on, while other people prefer to watch individual games they are actually interested in seeing. If the game had been another Giants-Cowboys the ratings would have been huge but 2 huge games don't happen every week to get great ratings for Sunday night and Monday football.
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the demise of all things McFarlane, TV would already be a better place.
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But Chuck Lidell would beat anyone.
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THE FUCK IS THE FAMILY GUY MOVIE
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