NBC's "Heroes" Continues Descent
There is no doubt NBC's "Heroes" hit season-low on Monday night with 9.68 million viewers. I believe, however, this may have been the sci-fi drama's worst performance since it debuted in September 2006.
Meanwhile, CBS's freshman comedy "The Big Bang Theory" hit series high (9.68 million) besting its premiere on September 24 (9.54 million).
FOX's two-hour "Prison Break" was also a success hitting a new season high of 7.84 million viewers. In the final half-hour the show exceeded 8 million viewers.
NBC's "Journeyman" is dying a slow death in the post-Heroes timeslot, hitting yet another series low of 5.25 million viewers this week.
The CW's freshman comedy "Aliens in America" also plummeted to its lowest numbers ever, scoring only 1.78 million viewers. I guess some of those "Chris" viewers would rather flip over to "Big Bang" on CBS.
ABC's scheduling antics made it almost impossible to tell how well its line-up did. "Dancing with the Stars" was undoubtedly the top show of the evening with about 21 million viewers tuning in.
ABC:
8-10 pm 20.36 million
10-11 pm 10.85 million
CBS:
How I Met Your Mother (8.87 million)
The Big Bang Theory (9.68 million)
Two and a Half Men (14.08 million)
Rules of Engagement (11.02 million)
CSI: Miami (14.09 million)
NBC:
Chuck (7.66 million)
Heroes (9.83 million)
Journeyman (5.25 million)
FOX:
Prison Break (7.84 million)
The CW:
Everybody hates Chris (2.44 million)
Aliens in America (1.78 million)
Girlfriends (1.99 million)
The Game (2.25 million)
posted by Justin Van De Kamp at
7:00 AM
5 Comments:
wait i dont get it. abc aired dancing with the stars and... ? the bachelor?
Do you watch Heroes Justin? I am one of the many who are disappointed by this season, but it does my heart good knowing all those Heroes worshippers last season attacking Lost and how Heroes is so much better. Well here is the comeuppance, Heroes has NEVER been better than Lost (my opinion only, some may feel differently), but it was new and fresh. Now it seems the characters are just doing the same thing over and over again.
As for Lost, I read your other post of having the 8 episodes delayed until 2009. I think that would be a terrible idea. The 8 episodes in February will leave a foul taste with fans like the minipod but it would be worse to delay the show and have it forgotten about completely. I think that this strike will hit the developing shows gathering momentum, like Big Bang Theory and Samantha Who, and that is sad...
ABC also aired "Samantha Who" (9:45-10:15) and a shorter version of "The Bachelor" (10:15-11:00), but because of the unusual starting times its is not possible to tell exactly how each of these shows did.
These are only the "fast national" ratings which reflect the standard timeslots. Final ratings give a better picture of how shows did during their actual timeslots.
I'm guessing the writers strike was not the only factor in the cancellation of Heroes: Origins.
Heroes is suffering from a sophomore slump in story telling, but it's still good. But it lacks focus. Like some of my other sophomore shows which is lacking focus and seems to have loads of subplots, but no real plot. So far in Heroes, what is the main plot? I think we'll find out in episode 8, because it took 7 episodes of build up. In season 1, we got the main plot by episode 3-4 that it was "Save the cheerleader, save the world". And they had 3 major arc main plots in season 1. Season 2 started off but so far, it's all subplots of buildup, but no real beefy main plot. Hopefully, episode 8 will deliver.
Methinks the main plot was hinted in episode 7 is to save the world and prevent the virus from spreading. I wish they hinted this earlier in the season...with a dream or something from someone.
And even now, what we thought was going to be the big baddie for season 2, Nightmare Man (aka Matt's father), is now not the big baddie by episode 7. So, who is the big baddie? Adam (aka Takezo Kensei)? I wish all of this was clarified early on. I think it would have made the sophomore year much more exciting and the ratings shoot up through the roof.
KC
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