Christmas TV Ratings
Broadcast networks in the US prefer to air reruns instead of razzle-dazzle Christmas specials during the holidays as television viewing levels have gone down considerably in recent years. Christmas 2006 was no exception.
On Christmas Eve, CBS won the night courtesy of Sunday's top program - NFL Overrun that took a byte of prime-time scoring over 17 million viewers at 7pm. That audience quickly disappeared as only a little over 5 million remained glued to the network by the end of the evening.
In comparison, holiday classic "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946) nabbed 4,89 million viewers for NBC, reruns of "Desperate Housewives" and "Brothers and Sisters" scored 3,45 million and 3,12 million viewers respectively (great viewer retention for "Brothers and Sisters", by the way) and "Spiderman" brought 4,19 million to FOX.
Monday night, NBC ruled the roost, as a special two-hour edition of "Deal or No Deal" earned top honors with 16,45 million, while the rerun of ABC's theatrical "Pirates of the Caribbean" scored a modest 8,64 million. Monday night movie "Radio" on FOX and CW comedies were almost invisible.
Finally, on Tuesday night, "Big Day" was a big loser on ABC, as the sitcom that follows a wedding day broken out into a whole season proved it was no "24" scoring less than 4 million viewers for both installments. "The Kennedy Center Honors" telecast on CBS was the evening's top show with 10,85 million.
Labels: Holiday Programming, Ratings
posted by Justin Van De Kamp at
5:02 PM
3 Comments:
Big Day is such an utter disappointment. I had high hopes for the show, but I don't know, it got boring pretty quickly. I mean how long can something go wrong on a wedding day? And I like Marla Sokoloff, and Wendy Malick, but this comedy is coming out drier than anything. *sigh*
You're right.Big Day started relatively well,but from episode 2 something it's not good.I don't know if it is the acting or the story but I'll put my money that ABC will cancell this show (I mean they've cancelled The Nine and Daybreak who had much better ratings).
I'm gonna be honest with you, guys. I haven't really seen Big Day. There are so many great shows to watch this year, there's simply not enough time for shows one just knows are going to fail. I love Wendy Malick, too. I even loved "Jake in Progress" (!). But it was obvious this was going to be a disaster.
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