[Lee!!]

Tuesday Cable Finals

Tosh.0 (1.3) 2.228 million viewers
The Jeselnik Offensive (0.8) 1.206 million viewers
Daily Show (0.9) 1.819 million viewers
Colbert Report (0.8) 1.540 million viewers

NBA Basketball (1.1) 2.726 million viewers
NBA Basketball (1.0) 2.312 million viewers

Hardcore Pawn (1.1) 3.028 million viewers
Storage Hunters (0.6) 1.854 million viewers

Snooki & JWoww (Season Finale) (1.0) 1.706 million viewers

Cougar Town (1.0) 1.936 million viewers
Conan (0.6) 1.182 million viewers

Top Gear (0.9) 2.171 million viewers
Counting Cars (0.6) 1.667 million viewers
Counting Cars (0.5) 1.549 million viewers

The Game (0.9) 1.805 million viewers
Let's Stay Together (0.6) 1.308 million viewers

Dance Moms (0.9) 2.342 million viewers
Preachers Daughters (0.5) 1.157 million viewers

Ultimate Fighter (0.7) 1.178 million viewers
Justified (0.7) 2.249 million viewers

19 Kids and Counting (0.5) 1.368 million viewers

Chopped (0.4) 1.112 million viewers

[Léo.]

The New Normal (1.7/5) 4.46 million viewers

Wow

[Mr.Link]

So many new shows underperforming

[.:Allen:.]

TNN can't be done

[Lee!!]

Wednesday Broadcast Finals

Survivor (2.5/7) 9.25 million viewers
Criminal Minds (2.8/7) 10.79 million viewers
CSI (2.1/6) 9.89 million viewers
-Everything steady

The Middle (2.0/6) 7.22 million viewers
Suburgatory (1.8/5) 5.83 million viewers
Modern Family (4.2/11) 10.88 million viewers
How To Live With Your Parents (For the Rest Of Your Life) (Series Premiere) (2.9/8) 8.44 million viewers
Nashville (1.7/5) 5.54 million viewers
-Nice debut of HTLWYP

Dateline NBC (1.4/4) 5.88 million viewers
Law & Order: SVU (1.6/4) 6.34 million viewers
Chicago Fire (1.6/4) 6.37 million viewers
-Steady night for NBC

American Idol (3.1/9) 11.76 million viewers
-Still down but still very strong

Arrow (0.9/3) 2.92 million viewers
Supernatural (0.8/2) 1.90 million viewers
-Still going strong

[Katy V.!]

Was that a good debut for GOT?

[Lee!!]

Wednesday Cable Finals

Duck Dynasty (3.7) 8.383 million viewers

Psych (0.7) 2.406 million viewers

Daily Show (0.6) 1.537 million viewers
Colbert Report (0.5) 1.182 million viewers

Conan (0.6) 1.045 million viewers

Real World: Portland (0.6) 0.959 million viewers

Southland (0.5) 1.462 million viewers

Americans (0.4) 1.378 million viewers

Haunted Collector (0.4) 1.068 million viewers

Hoarding: Buried Alive (0.3) 1.079 million viewers
My Crazy Obsession (0.4) 0.969 million viewers

The Soup (0.4) 0.742 million viewers

Restaurant Stakeout (0.4) 1.194 million viewers

[Lee!!]

Originally posted by Katy V.!

Was that a good debut for GOT?

Series High and renewed for Season 4!

[Lee!!]

Thursday Broadcast Finals

The Big Bang Theory (5.2/17) 17.24 million viewers
Two and a Half Men (3.9/12) 13.71 million viewers
Person Of Interest (2.7/8) 14.57 million viewers
Elementary (2.1/6) 10.48 million viewers
-Still dominating

Wife Swap (1.3/4) 4.01 million viewers
Grey's Anatomy (2.8/8) 8.58 million viewers
Scandal (2.6/8) 8.04 million viewers
-Greys/Scandal is such a strong 1,2 punch

Community (1.0/3) 2.32 million viewers
Parks and Recreation (1.5/5) 2.93 million viewers
The Office (1.8/5) 3.44 million viewers
Go On (1.1/3) 2.45 million viewers
Hannibal (Series Premiere) (1.6/5) 4.36 million viewers
-Comedies are all weak, Only Parks is safe. Soft start for Hannibal. Awake started stronger last year and we know how that ended up

American Idol (2.9/9) 11.72 million viewers
New Girl (2.0/6) 4.77 million viewers
The Mindy Project (1.3/4) 3.24 million viewers
-NG and Mindy did normal numbers, Idol still solid

The Vampire Diaries (R) (0.3/1) 1.01 million viewers
Beauty And The Beast (0.2/1) 0.74 million viewers
-R

[Lee!!]

Thursday Cable Finals

Swamp People (1.5) 4.192 million viewers
Big Rig Bounty Hunters (0.7) 2.076 million viewers

Anger Management (0.4) 1.024 million viewers
Archer (0.8) 1.303 million viewers

Men at Work (Season Premiere) (0.8) 1.685 million viewers

NBA Basketball (0.4) 1.056 million viewers
NBA Basketball (0.8) 1.934 million viewers

Ridiculousness (0.8) 1.520 million viewers

The First 48 (0.7) 1.632 million viewers

Braxton Family Values (0.5) 0.929 million viewers

Conan (0.5) 0.968 million viewers

Daily Show (0.5) 1.300 million viewers
Colbert Report (0.4) 0.978 million viewers

Project Runway (0.5) 1.868 million viewers

Impact Wrestling (0.4) 1.425 million viewers
Bellator MMA Live (0.4) 0.901 million viewers

Tabatha Takes Over (0.3) 0.772 million viewers

[Carlton]

years?
I'm glad Hannibal did well

[Gerry I Shot]

Men at Work (Season Premiere) (0.8) 1.685 million years

oh man... i was hoping for a 1.0 in the demo. Hope it doesn't fall.

[Hay Amores]

I hope HTLWYP holds up next week.
Haven't seen it yet, but excited for Sarah Chalke.

[Lee!!]

Originally posted by Carlton

years?
I'm glad Hannibal did well

LMAO it's been a long day haha

[Lee!!]

Originally posted by Gerry I Shot

Men at Work (Season Premiere) (0.8) 1.685 million years

oh man... i was hoping for a 1.0 in the demo. Hope it doesn't fall.

well if you look at it this way, the finale 2 episodes that aired on the same night:
Men at Work (0.9) 1.761 million years viewers
Men at Work (0.8) 1.407 million years viewers

So it's right in the middle there, AND with more competition since it premiered in the current 2012-13 season rather than summer.
SO Overall it's not a bad debut for the show (and I laughed a lot)

[Gerry I Shot]

oh good. Thanks Lee, now I feel better about the prospects. I love it as well and I think its hilarious.

[Hooligan]

So, I'm a little late to the party but Bob's Burgers has got to be one of the most hilarious shows I've seen. I've been watching it for about two days straight now -- thanks to Netflix and Hulu -- and now I'm all caught up on the current season. I can't believe I've missed this show for so long.

[rbautz]

Interesting read from Lefsetz about Cable TV

Customization

I don’t want to pay for sports.

I’m not talking a trip to Dodger Stadium, or Staples, but I’m not too eager for that either. I wait until one of my well-heeled friends coughs up a courtside seat, otherwise I just stay home and ignore the whole damn thing.

I didn’t used to be this way. I lived for sports.

But then the Yankees were free on TV.

People think Napster ruined the music business. What they don’t realize is it was a harbinger of things to come. Turns out most people didn’t want the album. Sorry all you musos making and devouring full length statements. With the advent of the CD, albums became so long, you could have sex, take a shower and call your mother and still have time to take out the garbage before they played through. Then again, no one’s as oblivious as an artist. He sells something no one needs, and deep into his own thought doesn’t realize when he loses his audience’s attention.

Kind of like the music business at large. Humming along on overpriced CDs moved by MTV and as soon as people got the option to download just what they wanted, they gave up on the old model.

Kind of like with TV. My cable bill is insane. Of course I want the high speed Internet, the super high speed I pay for. But all those TV channels? I haven’t got time to watch them. I finally canceled Cinemax and Showtime. But what bugs me is sports. Because I’m paying a ton of money for something I never watch, and so are you.

Well, maybe you’re watching, but everybody with a cable subscription is paying. We’re subsidizing your lifestyle. Against the modern welfare system? Then you should be against the cable TV bundle.

But they tell us if they de-bundle it we’ll pay more!

What a load of hogwash. The truth is sports and niche channels profit handsomely via payments from providers, which are garnered by ripping off subscribers. They just don’t want the gravy train to end. But it’s gonna.

The only place where people buy more than they want is Costco. And they do so because it’s so damn cheap. But all the content industries are charging us a fortune, and as soon as the public gains an option, people bolt.

I know, I know, there’s a ton of buzz about “Mad Men.”

Personally, I’m not a fan, I don’t choose to watch paint dry.

But the big story of the winter is “House Of Cards,” on Netflix. Delivered all at once so people can binge. This is the future. Reruns are done. It’s got to be all new all the time on television or we’re tuning out. Remember waiting for new episodes of “Seinfeld”…that model is toast!

As for “Mad Men,” they sell that at the iTunes Store now. Sure, it might cost a Jackson, but at least you don’t have to pay for all the other stuff you don’t want.

What else don’t you want?

The opening act. Once upon a time you got to the show early, believing there was a reason to pay attention to the opener. Now you know someone paid someone behind the scenes and for your $100 ticket you don’t want to be bored, you’ll arrive for the headliner, thank you.

And it’s newspapers too. What kind of model is that? A surface reading of the news so you can sell advertising? I can get the surface on a zillion sites online, believe me, if someone shoots up a school or Congress grinds to a halt, I don’t need a high-priced reporter to tell me the story. But if I want to go deeper…

That’s what is the future. Deeper. Our whole world has flipped over. Rather than blanding out and trying to reach everybody, today you gain and identify your fans and keep feeding them ad infinitum. Charge them while you’re at it, they’re more than willing to pay.

We can ignore the mainstream quite handily. Once upon a time all we had was Top Forty radio. As for that outlet today, I guarantee at least half of my readership has never heard a Rihanna tune…because they don’t have to! It’s not like they’re at home twiddling their thumbs bored, rather they’re deep down into what they’re interested in, which in today’s information economy is readily available.

And ignore the press. The Netflix backlash? Nobody wants to rent a DVD anymore. Reed Hastings was right. Streaming is not only the future, it’s now. If you don’t make your stuff available for streaming, that just means no one is gonna watch it. Sit there self-satisfied. Like those who insist on charging to hear their music. Huh? You’d better make it easy and cheap or free or feel like free, because very few people are truly interested.

Global stars?

Not like there used to be. Because we don’t have to pay attention, we’ve got options.

Cable TV is gonna crumble. It’s gonna happen overnight. Kinda like the switch from film to digital photography. You remember, we were hearing that digital was coming for a decade, but it didn’t. Then, overnight, digital cameras exploded and film disappeared and Kodak went into the dumper.

What else is gonna go into the dumper?

You’ve got to be damn good to have anything more than a tiny audience today. Don’t employ yesteryear’s paradigm, wherein the public partook of less than quality goods because very little was available. To stand out today, you’ve got to be incredible, you’ve got to make yourself necessary.

And no amount of bloviating about basketball is gonna get me to tune back in. I wasted too much of my life watching Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson in the last century, I’m done.

So why am I still paying for you to watch?

That’s the question.

And I’m not the only one asking it.

[Lee!!]

I'd actually counter that post with hard evidence that more and more people are flocking to cable channels!
If you look at ratings of the major networks, NBC, CBS, etc., their ratings are starting to decline while networks like USA, AMC, A&E, History, etc., keep seeing their ratings increase with each new concept and show they air. Just look at Duck Dynasty on A&E, The Bible on History and The Walking Dead on AMC. They're some of of the biggest shows on the air, actually in the top 10 of all Television shows this season.

I do agree that the shift will be towards streaming in the future. Its a fact. The big networks are trying to fight it to a degree, but it will become a force to reckon with in the not too soon future. DVR use is up, streaming continues to rise. It's only a matter of time before we see a big change in the way we watch entertainment.

[madonnafan18]

Does anyone know the ratings for Sunday's Mob Wives finale?