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| Thursday, 11 October 2007 | |
 Taking a look at the Nielsen Ratings for Tuesday night made me jump up and down in joy......for a second. "Cavemen", the unsurprisingly unfunny show about Cavemen making their way through modern day life, has begun to slip in the ratings, something I can't be more thrilled about. I can't stress enough how much I wish I had a Nielsen box, just so that I could avoid poorly written inane television chatter like this show. However, "Cavemen" was not the only show to be thrown under the ratings train. "Reaper", a personal new favorite of mine, is still slowly losing it's audience, a sure path to it's eventual cancellation. From Reuters and Nielsen Media Research:
Ok, 7 million viewers is still 6.5 million people too many to be watching "Cavemen" (the other .5 million are the mentally handicapped and/or politicians, who are allowed). Yet "Reaper", which has so far consistently made me laugh out loud, took another plunge in the ratings, especially in the all-too-coveted 18-49 year old demographic. That's not good. It didn't even place in the top 5 for the night, which means that if this downward trend continues for much longer, we're going to be watching the rest of the season on DVD (if they even bother filming more episodes). Alright, I can understand Reaper losing out to NCIS. It's one of those "forensic procedurals with a twist" show that spawned from the CSI craze a few years back, so it's bound to have a strong following. But losing to "Bones"? It's got David Boreanaz in it, for godsakes! That show is literally one softcore porn scene away from being "Silk Stockings" bad. I really would like to see Cavemen keep slipping in the ratings and eventually go away, but I have a sneaking suspicion that despite my daily "mentally focus on psychically exploding the main producers brains" exercises, Cavemen is still going to last long enough to bury the nail in Reaper's coffin. Comments (2)
  Tr0n wrote...
I absolutely LOVED the Reaper pilot but after ep 2 and 3 it's hovering dangerously on the edge of just another formulaic sitcom albeit with a fairly unique premise. Yes it is better than most shows currently out there but without K-Smith at the helm it's waning...big time.
|| October 12, 2007
 Peter wrote...
I suppose it's because I still have a "hankering" for the cheesy supernatural/scifi offbeat comedy genre made popular by Joss Whedon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly.
I'd really like to see this show picked up and get better treatment from the network, because I think we'd see the show improve. While I agree that the show does definitely have a formula to it, that may be a symptom of CW not ordering any new episodes yet. Why start a compelling story arc if you're only going to be cancelled in a week? Then again, maybe it's the creator's fault. Maybe he just really doesn't know how to take a great idea from pilot to series. You never know with this kind of thing.
http://www.bleepinggeek.com || October 12, 2007
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