Primetime Nielsen Ratings: Season Wrap-Up
The season ratings are in: #145 out of 156 shows. Ouch. I have heard of exactly one of the nine shows that finished lower. And just take a look at all those crappy shows that beat out television's finest.
Obviously there are some methodological problems here. The shows seem to be ranked by average weekly viewership, with no account given to how short a time a show may have been on the air. So the immediately-cancelled "Emily's Reasons Why Not" comes in at #99 and the execrable "Just Legal" has our girl beat at #136, on the strength of the viewership it got before The WB gave it the Meg-Manning-alternate-ending treatment. If you cross off all the dead and dying shows above VM on the list, the picture looks a little better, but it's still sad.
A larger point is that UPN wasn't equipped to deliver the viewership numbers of a real network. The lowest-ranked show on a Big-Three network came in at #115. The 19 lowest-rated shows were on The WB and UPN.
Obviously there are some methodological problems here. The shows seem to be ranked by average weekly viewership, with no account given to how short a time a show may have been on the air. So the immediately-cancelled "Emily's Reasons Why Not" comes in at #99 and the execrable "Just Legal" has our girl beat at #136, on the strength of the viewership it got before The WB gave it the Meg-Manning-alternate-ending treatment. If you cross off all the dead and dying shows above VM on the list, the picture looks a little better, but it's still sad.
A larger point is that UPN wasn't equipped to deliver the viewership numbers of a real network. The lowest-ranked show on a Big-Three network came in at #115. The 19 lowest-rated shows were on The WB and UPN.
posted by MWR at 10:16 PM
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