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TVbytheNumbers: Samantha Who? Again Tops New Shows, Oct 29-Nov 4

  • angela · 2 years ago
    how much of Samantha do you think is because of its lead in, Dancing With The Stars. I think it's crazy of Fox to have put Next Great ... on a Friday.
  • Bill Gorman · 2 years ago
    Angela, that's indeed the $64,000 question.

    Samatha owes a lot to Dancing's 21.4m average audience on 10/29.

    However, for 18-34s, Dancing had 2.299m avg. viewers and Samantha had 2.359m. So *more* younger viewers tuned in for Samantha. That's likely significant.
  • Chandra · 2 years ago
    What does "[Off]" mean in the list of shows at the bottom that didn't make the Top 20? Most have it, but a couple, both CW shows, don't.
  • Bill Gorman · 2 years ago
    [Off] means the show didn't air that week.

    Of the 6 new shows that didn't make the top 20, 4 had zero viewers since they didn't air. The 2 CW shows aired with fewer viewers than Gossip Girl.
  • Rena Moretti · 2 years ago
    Put Samantha in any slot without a huge lead-in and it wold be doing poorly. Actually, it's doing rather poorly given its lead-in.

    Of all those shows, Women's Murder Club is the only good one, which help explain that it's not dropping like a stone like most everything else.

    Dirty Sexy Money and Big Bang Theory might survive because in a season of bombs, mediocre show with mediocre ratings almost look good.

    NBC has made itself a joke and Jeff Zucker should fire everyone (including himself) who was responsible for this awful mess.

    He's probably banking on the strike to kill off all his new shows without any acknowledgment of how bad they are.
  • Joe Bua · 2 years ago
    C'mon, Sam Who? is utterly charming.

    I love this show.

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