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. “Cavemen” extinction watch
“Cavemen,” as expected, chased away about two million viewers from last week’s debut Tuesday night, with 7 million Neanderthals still tuning in. “Carpoolers” fell off, too, though not as sharply; it even had a few more viewers despite the “Cavemen” lead-in.
At this rate, “Cavemen” looks to be drawing a negative number of viewers within a month’s time.
Meanwhile, The CW’s “Reaper” is now drawing lower viewership than “Veronica Mars” (of course, “VM” lasted three seasons, so maybe that’s the key to success at The CW). Lousier lead-in, but still. Of course, given The CW has already picked the disappointing “Gossip Girl" for the full season, it’s just a matter of time before they do the same with “Reaper.”
And “Cane’s” a real coin flip for CBS: Holding steady at 9 million viewers, but that’s kind of a dinky number for the timeslot and it’s trailing two aging shows, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and “Boston Legal,” badly. Of course, in this season of diminished expectations (and even more diminished results), that might be enough to get it an early renewal for 2008-09.
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I've commented that it would be a freaking miracle if ABC didnt pull the plug on this cavemen experiment before the end of October. I cant believe they even tried to make this thing in the first place. Its a stupid, STUPID television show.
Posted by: David Thorne | October 10, 2007 5:56 PM