David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. "Big Day," little numbers
Every new series on Tuesday night is tanking. ABC's "Big Day" debuted last night with an anemic 7.5 million viewers, but compared to the rest of the lot, that's practically a hit. "Help Me Help You," which followed, managed a mere 5 million. Fox's "Standoff" lured 5.8 million viewers; NBC's "Friday Night Lights" 6.2m.
CBS's "3 LBS" had just a hair under 8 million viewers - that's not so bad, right? Well, consider that the previous timeslot inhabitant, "Smith," was yanked after three episodes when its final telecast garnered 8.38 million viewers. Oops. Apparently, scheduling network primetime lineups isn't brain surgery.
"NCIS," now that it doesn't have "Dancing with the Stars" to kick it around anymore, is back to its old hit form, with 18 million viewers last night. Enjoy it while it lasts - "American Idol's" just around the corner. And "House" had 17.16 million fans. And 13 million people watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas" for the umpteenth time.
And by the way: The stronger "Heroes" gets on Monday nights, the worse "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" looks: The audience that discovered how Aaron Sorkin plans to deal with Amanda Peet's pregnancy was less than half the size of the group that saw Hiro's heart get broken.
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You led me astray with your review of "Big Day." I did not find it to be as entertaining as you did. I'll get you for that, and for these never-ending ratings reports. Some day, Mr. Mayor, some day soon...
Posted by: Ratings Report Hater | November 29, 2006 4:24 PM