Sunday’s Numbers
By fred | February 18, 2008
Oh crap! It seems we may get a new Knight Rider series after all… No, NBC didn’t win the night in total viewers, ABC came first thanks to their Extreme Makeover, but NBC was not far away, and - thanks to Knight Rider - was a winner on the 18-49 demo.
At 8.00 The Simpsons couldn’t reach 8 million viewers, not too good yet they had 200 000 more viewers than the last new episode. This is a trend for the entire animation comedy night on Fox - Family Guy barely had 7.2 million viewers - and it shows one thing : networks exec are morons. They thought that keeping new episodes in the can and putting out one episode from time to time would get the same amount of people to tune in each time a new episode showed up, because it’s new.
Instead, people just went away as reruns were everywhere, and since the strike was still going they never return for the occasional episode networks throw at them when they felt like it. In the end, networks blew it and make lost viewers. I could have told them this would happen before they engaged in the stupid thing, anyone who watches TV, or with a brain, could have. Morons…
At 9.00 CBS had the same experience with Cold Case, whose last episode produced before the strike was barely watched by 9.6 million viewers. Meanwhile on NBC, the new Knight Rider had 12.5 million viewers, good but still 2 million less viewers than Extreme Makeover on ABC.
One hour later though Knight Rider was up to 12.9 million viewers and a 5.1 on the demo (best score of the night), while ABC’s Brothers & Sisters surely miss their Desperate Housewives of lead-in, and was down to 8.5 million viewers!
Dexter was making its debut on CBS, after a successful run on Showtime last season, and had 8.2 million viewers watching. So that’s quite good, considering the show has been out on Showtime and DVDs for a while now, or that the long-awaited second season of Jericho premiered with 800 000 less viewers ! I’m curious to see how it’ll do over time, though, because let’s speak the truth : the show sucks.
All numbers of the night below :
Posted in Numbers/Ratings
Shows: American Dad, Brothers & Sisters, Cold Case, Dexter, Family Guy, King Of The Hill, Knight Rider, The Simpsons
