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thanks sv fan i was just wondering how it did. Not to bad of a drop hopefully they can keep rest of their season around there.
 
Man i cant wait to see what the numbers where for smallville premire compared to the fox/nbc/cbs stuff. I hope we got at or around 4million. Then hopefully the season can maintain its needed 3 million(average viewership) to keep the CW happy with the friday move.
 
from tvbythenumbers.com

well this is a little disapointing. I was just at tvbythenumbers.com a ratings site. Well cbs won the night, and fox's 8pm show wasnt that hot, and abc's rerun of flashforward did well. But smallville ended up doing not to hot. I was hoping it could have gotten like 3.5-4.0million. But it only got 2.5 million. Though its only early numbers, so final numbers could go a little higher.
 
Who didn't see this coming???

2.5 million now will turn into less than 2 million in a few months. It's safe to say we can forget about another season.
 
Can't say Im surprised by those numbers, but Im still convinced they will get another season if they choose so.... Have you seen CWs other slate of shows?
 
oh yea alot were thiking it would be a little down. Though its only early numbers and final/live +7 numbers are not in yet. So maybe it can bump it to around 2.8-3.0. But it is doing better then any of the crap cw had on friday's before.
 
well we can hope the +7 numbers increase it a bit, and if things on other networks dont fair well in the coming weeks. But it still doing better then former friday shows. Though with the beatiful life can and melrose place not fairing that great just aroudn 2million. If they can hold 2+ million dawn will probably keep it around. Plus we cant judge how the season will go to we get a few more episodes out.
 
this is indeed disappointing. oh well. maybe the numbers will increase as more episodes air.
 
Zing79 said:
Who didn't see this coming???

2.5 million now will turn into less than 2 million in a few months. It's safe to say we can forget about another season.
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Not necessarily.

Knowing how much CW likes to spin their ratings through press releases, I'm not sure how much *they* feel moving SV to Friday nights was the right idea, but the fact of the matter is, last night's episode of SV "scored [CW's] best performance in the Friday 8pm hour among adults 18-34 (1.0/4-tie), adults 18-49 (1.0/4) and total viewers (2.5mil) in a year (Sept. 26 2008 - Smackdown)." And that episode of Smackdown was the finale.

The whole point of moving SV to Fridays was to boost their ratings on that night. If the show consistently performs better than any other show they've had in that time slot - and does so by a wide margin - it will serve the purpose of promoting that time slot to CW's sponsors. This is why I think the producers have been so sure they'd get a 10th season; the CW doesn't have anything else that can pull that kind of viewership at 8pm on a Friday night.
 
AgentPat said:
Not necessarily.

Knowing how much CW likes to spin their ratings through press releases, I'm not sure how much *they* feel moving SV to Friday nights was the right idea, but the fact of the matter is, last night's episode of SV "scored [CW's] best performance in the Friday 8pm hour among adults 18-34 (1.0/4-tie), adults 18-49 (1.0/4) and total viewers (2.5mil) in a year (Sept. 26 2008 - Smackdown)." And that episode of Smackdown was the finale.

The whole point of moving SV to Fridays was to boost their ratings on that night. If the show consistently performs better than any other show they've had in that time slot - and does so by a wide margin - it will serve the purpose of promoting that time slot to CW's sponsors. This is why I think the producers have been so sure they'd get a 10th season; the CW doesn't have anything else that can pull that kind of viewership at 8pm on a Friday night.
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Versus premiere night last year, Smallville outperformed our comedies by +25% in adults 18-49 and +25% in total viewers.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/26/tv-ratings-dollhouse-brothers-bomb-on-fox-cbs-wins-night/28502
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As long as the CW is satisfied with the results, SV should be fine.
 
AgentPat said:
Not necessarily.

Knowing how much CW likes to spin their ratings through press releases, I'm not sure how much *they* feel moving SV to Friday nights was the right idea, but the fact of the matter is, last night's episode of SV "scored [CW's] best performance in the Friday 8pm hour among adults 18-34 (1.0/4-tie), adults 18-49 (1.0/4) and total viewers (2.5mil) in a year (Sept. 26 2008 - Smackdown)." And that episode of Smackdown was the finale.

The whole point of moving SV to Fridays was to boost their ratings on that night. If the show consistently performs better than any other show they've had in that time slot - and does so by a wide margin - it will serve the purpose of promoting that time slot to CW's sponsors. This is why I think the producers have been so sure they'd get a 10th season; the CW doesn't have anything else that can pull that kind of viewership at 8pm on a Friday night.
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I see it as that reason too. Sure we all would like a bit higher ratings and maybe they can if word of mouth gets out their that it started off good and wasnt a dud like doomsday episode. Episodes could increase slightly per episode for all we know. We will just have to see how next few episodes go. So we can see how smallville's trend is going, will it be going up, down, or stay the same roughly. But yea dawn o has said as long as it preforms for them on fridays and stays above 2 or gets around 3 they are happy for that number on fridays and the show will stick around.
 
Do they figure DVR number in also? I thought I remember reading that they helped a show on CBS(Jericho maybe, I can't remember the name) get a second season. I know I had to DVR SV because I was working a high school football and didn't get home till about 11:00pm. And I watched SV about a half an hour after I got home. I want to watch the episode again before I give my opinion on it just to see if I have the same feeling and make sure I'm not just jumping to conclusions I guess yopu can say.
 
i think dvr/tivo are counted in the live +7 numbers which havent been factored in yet. probably will be out monday. So the final number with live + 7 could bump it up to 2.8-3.0 range. But yea since the cw said the ratings was the best they have had for a friday compared to last season. We are fine for now. The show would have to do as poorly as that the beatiful life show did in two episodes to be dropped from cw. So as long as it stays between 2-3million viewers the show will be fine. Then also we have to look at how other cw shows have been fairing in ratings this season so far. All of them minus vampire diaries have only been in mid 2 million viewers range. So if those shows are staying they wouldnt bump smallville. They need it for friday or they got nothing there. Plus they really cant dump any other shows at this time cause they dont have any mid season replacements ready to go yet.
 
They want ratings? Put him in the suit, make him fly, call him Superman and promote the s*** out of it.
 
AgentPat said:
Not necessarily.

Knowing how much CW likes to spin their ratings through press releases, I'm not sure how much *they* feel moving SV to Friday nights was the right idea, but the fact of the matter is, last night's episode of SV "scored [CW's] best performance in the Friday 8pm hour among adults 18-34 (1.0/4-tie), adults 18-49 (1.0/4) and total viewers (2.5mil) in a year (Sept. 26 2008 - Smackdown)." And that episode of Smackdown was the finale.

The whole point of moving SV to Fridays was to boost their ratings on that night. If the show consistently performs better than any other show they've had in that time slot - and does so by a wide margin - it will serve the purpose of promoting that time slot to CW's sponsors. This is why I think the producers have been so sure they'd get a 10th season; the CW doesn't have anything else that can pull that kind of viewership at 8pm on a Friday night.
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Bingo. Ratings are in large part relative. You cant compare the show to what it was doing on Thursday nights now. Friday night is a whole new game. AS long as Smallville is far out-performing the other dreck that CW had on in the past on Fridays. then it's golden.

All of these people who try to post these ratings numbers comparisons back to 2001 like the knuckleheads over at Superman Homepage need to learn that. Smallville has now been on every weeknight with the exception of Mondays in it's 9 year run. A lot of that analysis will be apples to oranges.
 
oh yea totally hulk. Each night has been a different case for the show between the wb and the cw. Yes its some of the wrost ratings the show has had for a live episode. But relative to this season of cw shows its the same pretty much. So if they hold the in between 2-3 million like the others it will be here for full season. It would have to drop to only 1million or less for them to can it. Plus we know they cant really dont any other shows at this time. Since they have nothing to replace things with yet. Plus this is the best numbers they have had on fridays. Then also look at it the other networks were only between 8-2 million viewers. So all networks were crap on friday. Plus for all we know in the coming weeks with fox's block doing bad smallville could easily out beat them and possible get 3rd place for the night.
 
i thought were we were not getting the final numbers for about another week?
 
mikelus so is it still final numbers just 2.5million or do i add all those other numbers to 2.5 and get final number.
 
Smallville DVR numbers should be out next week according to Ausiello:

Now here’s some spin I can get behind: The live-plus-seven-day DVR numbers from the opening week of the TV season are in, and 90210, Melrose Place, and Vampire Diaries all saw significant gains compared to live-only viewing, with 90210 getting the biggest boost. The highlights:

* 90210 grew a considerable 73 percent in women 18-34 (1.92 vs. 3.32) and 46 percent in total viewers (1.9 million vs. 2.9 million).

* Melrose Place, which has been struggling in the ratings, gained 54 percent in women 18-34 (2.12 vs. 3.26) and 43 percent in total viewers (2 million vs. 2.8 million).

* Freshman hit Vampire Diaries soared 64 percent in women 18-34 (2.33 vs. 3.83) and 40 percent in total viewers (4.0 million vs. 5.7 million).

* Supernatural grew 35 percent in women 18-34 (1.5 vs. 2.0) and 38 percent (2.9 million vs. 4 million) in total viewers.

Data for Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, and Smallville should start trickling in next week.

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/09/30/scoop-vampire-90210-melrose-get-bigger/
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oh ok i dont get those figures for the demo stuff. Well if all those other cw shows did well with the live + 7 numbers hopefully smallville's final counts will be up there too. I am hoping probably up to like 3.3-3.5 range hopefully.
 
Metallo's overnight ratings are in:

Well just went to tvbythenumbers for the over night numbers. Even with the lost of the nyc market for mets game. Smallville did pretty well. A slight dip from premire numbers of 2.573(overall) metallo got overnight rating of 2.39. So thats good to hear.
 
Webhead2006 said:
Metallo's overnight ratings are in:

Well just went to tvbythenumbers for the over night numbers. Even with the lost of the nyc market for mets game. Smallville did pretty well. A slight dip from premire numbers of 2.573(overall) metallo got overnight rating of 2.39. So thats good to hear.
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Overnights include the Mets' game. Numbers reflect everybody who watched the CW last night, regardless of what was being broadcast. Any local affiliates that did not air Smallville will be backed out of the ratings for the finals numbers.


Overnight ratings for SV, courtesy Travis Yanan at PiFeedback:
8:00: 1.4/3HH, 0.9/4 A18-49, 1.1/5 A18-34, 2,340,000 Viewers
8:30: 1.5/3HH, 0.9/3 A18-49, 1.1/5 A18-34, 2,434,000 Viewers
 
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