Ratings

[Lemaris]

yea thats great to see what the dvr/tivo/live +7 figures were for the premire i bet the others will end up being around 3million as final too.

Yeah I think that's pretty good all things considered.

 

[Webhead2006]

totally, cant wait to see how the rest of the season goes for live and the dvr numbers.

 

[Prison Mike]

smallville got higher numbers than supernatural

 

[Lemaris]

smallville got higher numbers than supernatural

I think if Smallville was still on Thursday both shows would be doing as well as this time last year if not better. Dumb move by a network Exec that does tons of stupid things.

 

[Webhead2006]

oh yea totally we know the cw execs are stupid with their lineups. they should have kept smallville/supernatural together. moved top model to fridays to be by itself/with some other crap show. then leave their mond/tues same. wensday they could have put vapire diaries there with something and boom.

 

[Lemaris]

oh yea totally we know the cw execs are stupid with their lineups. they should have kept smallville/supernatural together. moved top model to fridays to be by itself/with some other crap show. then leave their mond/tues same. wensday they could have put vapire diaries there with something and boom.

They could also try and make some quality shows instead of the teeny bopper crap they have on all the time.

 

[Webhead2006]

oh yea totally dawn really needs to get out of oh i want cw to be lifetime/oxygen kick, no offense to fans of those channels and all that. But you need to cater to more demos then just females 18-45.

 

[B]

Heres the ratings thus far from Kryptonsite/TVbythenumbers:

Savior - 2.50
Metallo - 2.39 (2.50 initial overnight ratings)
Rabid - 2.30 (2.39 initial overnight ratings)

Heres a great article posted by Devoted to Smallville which notes that Smallville (along with Dollhouse) top the biggest DVR gains

The Live Feed

Heres the cliff notes from description of the article that DTS have posted :

There is a popular venezuelan saying: "they weren't dead, they were in a party", never this saying was more fitting for the Smallville and its audience. According to The Live Feed Smallville's season premiere "Savior" tops DVR gain list (alongside FOX "Dollhouse") with an increase of the 50% of audience that watched live. Smallville also is the biggest DVR gainer of The CW.

So people didn't forget to watching Smallivlle live, they were partying on Fridays, but thye did record it!

#1: Largest 18-49 Demo Increase From DVR Viewing for Broadcast TV Shows: 1.0 to 1.5
#4: Greatest % Of DVR Viewing for Broadcast TV Shows: 2,576 million Viewrs to 3,389 million.

From the way I am understanding all this, Smallville's ratings have only slightly dipped in people that watch the show live. However with the DVR viewing figures double what the shows overall ratings are.

I think this is quite good news I think when you also consider Smallville brings in a solid number of dvd sales as well as the reported sharp increase of itunes episode sales as well.

This might be good news for Dollhouse lovers as well, I've only seen a bit of 1 episode & I did like what I had seen so I don't really want it cancelled incase when I catch up on a few more episodes I end up liking it t:

 

[Dark Helmet]

Hopefully the CW cancels that vampire show & then bring Smallville back to its original slot for the 2nd half of the season if these ratings are showing them anything most are not watching this live on Friday anymore

 

[Prison Mike]

Vampire Diaries gets about 3.8 million viewers live (not counting the DVR numbers). So it won't cancelled anytime soon.

 

[Webhead2006]

yea they got lucky with that vampire show, with vampires the in thing right now, and it being within their main target demo of females 18-45 group, and ratings are solid for it its not going any where. Though personally like i said last night they should have put VD on wensdays with something, move top model to fridays, and kept smallville/supernatural a pair.

 

[KBX]

Good vampire shows like Moonlight and Blade get cancelled instantly while Vampire Diaries looks like it will last 5 years on the CW, jeeeez.....

 

[Webhead2006]

yea it funny how these things work out.

 

[Billy Batson]

Good vampire shows like Moonlight and Blade get cancelled instantly while Vampire Diaries looks like it will last 5 years on the CW, jeeeez.....

Come on be nice to VD, Vampire Diaries have the same winning formula that Roswell & Smallville had.

I can't believe Smallville is the number one DVR show.
Hey, since Smallville have gone all animated series with the story lines and making things up as they go. Will it be possible for the Red, Gold Blur to make an appearance? Holy Moly!!! how cool would that be?

 

[Webhead2006]

captain marvel would be curious to see if he was brought into smallville. But he is probably offlimits like gl/batman/ww are.

 

[Billy Batson]

he is probably offlimits like gl/batman/ww are.

I don't know about that, he's nonexistent compare to those guys and I doubt the legality of the film can possibly be an issue. We all know there won't be a film.

If Smallvile give me a Red, Gold Blur episode. I'll be beside myself like the Rosetta episode.

Holy Moly there's a poll with Captain Marvel as an option!!??. http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=327471

 

[Webhead2006]

well if gl cant be used due to the film starting up, and ww for them wanting to do a film even though it isnt going to happen any time soon show you the film people have more pull over smallville guys. Why do you think we got guys like aquaman/cyborg/soon to be wonder twins over higher up guys.

 

[SV Fan]

Matt Mitovich on his twitter account just posted the overnight rating for Echo is 2.62M

 

[Prison Mike]

yay! it went up!

 

[Webhead2006]

yea i just posted that on echo thread, hopefully that is the final overnight numbers, darn other rating sites havent posted the overnights yet.

 

[SV Fan]

yea i just posted that on echo thread, hopefully that is the final overnight numbers, darn other rating sites havent posted the overnights yet.

tvbythenumbers has it as a 2.6M

On a side note Ugly Betty got a 5.1M rating for it's first hour(the show averaged 8M last season on thursdays). Basically both SV and UB lost about 35-40% of there audience moving to Friday

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

Good vampire shows like Moonlight and Blade get cancelled instantly while Vampire Diaries looks like it will last 5 years on the CW, jeeeez.....

Shows on the CW don't require huge ratings.

SV would have been cancelled a looooong time ago if it were on a different network. I remember when L&C dropped under 14 million viewers and it was considered on its downslope

 

[Webhead2006]

well you do have to remember in the 90s there was less tv shows going around. compared to the cluster filled shows we have of tv. So any show is lucky these days to get between 2-15million.

 

[B]

Smallvilles ratings rose to a season high thus far on Friday:

"Echo" -2.62 (2.30 initial overnight ratings)


Kryptonsite posted a press release from The CW which acknowledges Smallville's improvement:

SMALLVILLE delivered its largest audience (2.62mil) and best adults 18-49 (1.1/4) of the season.

In fact, this was our best performance in the time period in these categories since our last Smackdown on 9/26/08.

Adults 18-34 remains steady at a 1.1/4.
SMALLVILLE ranked second in the hour among men 18-34 (1.3/6) and men 18-49 (1.3/5), beating the big 3.

Versus comedies a year ago, SMALLVILLE is up by 38% in adults 18-34, 117% in men 18-34, 38% in adults 18-49, 117% in men 18-49 and 46% in viewers



Heres another article that was posted by a member on The Planet concerning Smallville :

http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/ask-m...tory-2770.html


Question: I was wondering what you thought of the CW's decision to move Smallville to Friday nights and what that might mean for the show. Smallville has always been one of the network's top performers, and though it is in its ninth season, I can't believe the CW thought it would be a good idea to move it to the Friday night death slot and pair it with reruns of Top Model, no less. I thought Smallville and Supernatural made a terrific (and successful) pair on Thursday nights, and ever since the move, both shows have lost a big chunk of their viewers. I very much enjoyed the eighth season of Smallville and the ninth season has impressed me thus far. I was really hoping for a 10th. What do you think the chances of that are at this point?—Carrie

Matt Roush: According to my in-house expert who knows this show much better than I do, you shouldn’t count out a 10th season, regardless of the Friday numbers. The CW doesn’t expect much from any show airing on that night, and moving Smallville (which is still a valuable property in international sales and DVDs, etc.) was more about the network looking to its own future. The goal was not to punish Smallville, which holds its own wherever it airs, but to launch a new genre franchise in The Vampire Diaries, which has been (by CW standards) a major success story on Thursdays. There’s no question Smallville is closer to the end of its run than the beginning, but by all accounts, no one’s projecting an end date yet this season.





More or less is saying the jury is still out on whether or not Smallville gets a 10th season according to his in-house expert.

Don't expect a 10th season but at the same time don't rule it out.. 50-50.

 

[Webhead2006]

that tv guide article been posted already.