It is fair to suggest it did not do brilliantly. The Futon Critic also suggests it tied for eighth in the all-important 18-49 demos.
Obviously I derive no please from a show not doing very well (I think the show is neither particularly good or bad, the lack of surprise in having one couple for an entire show doesn’t help it), it’s only when we’re constantly bombarded with the idea that something is a MEGAHIT when the numbers don’t stack up is when it is funny.
So with all this in mind – Endemol Joe, how about taking this to the next level? I’m happy to stake up to £250 of actual cash that The Voice will not be a phenomenon for NBC. We can use the ratings for its recent The Sing Off as a guide if you like. How about it?
Million Dollar Money Drop did perfectly fine in a very competitive timeslot. In the same timeslot, NBC were launching a new series of their reality hit show The Biggest Loser, CBS were launching their much-promoted new reality series Live To Dance featuring ex-American Idol judge Paula Abdul and ABC were starting a new series of cult hit drama V.
For a gameshow on the US broadcast network, MDMD did fine and will improve in time when the competition dies down. Minute to Win It, the other big gameshow hit in the US, has experienced similar falls in the past but rebounded.
The Voice WILL be a massive hit show. I’m not going to bet any money because I don’t gamble but it’s going to be NBC’s biggest reality show in years.
So it does average to badly when not up against competition, it does badly when up against competition. When should it be going out?
It did well against normal competition. The 2.0 18-49 rating it was getting before the Christmas Holidays is very good. Hardly any TV shows yesterday in the US did that well.
No, it got a single 2.0 rating on its opening week and it’s been downhill ever since. It’s launch week was up against very soft competition (let’s not forget, Univision was winning the evening in the 18-49s).
Apparently yesterdays’ show opened with a comment that it’s the most talked about show on television and internet. Evidently everyone talked about it and agreed not to bother watching it.
There is a big online buzz for the show. The number of people watching it on NBC’s online service and Hulu is through the roof, from what I’ve heard.
Well I look forward to seeing how it does Thursday! Especially as it’s on Fox.
Edit: Show not appearing in Popular episodes list on Hulu either 🙁
Parden, me. I meant FOX! Was bloody thinking about The Voice 😀
At the end of the day, MDMD is a show well liked by people, got people talking and has not flopped in the ratings. A show like this is economically viable and will be kept on FOX as long as its ratings are as they are (or have been before). 🙂
We shall see. It’s certainly cheap, but it looks like a flop, and who wants to be associated with that?
I’m surprised with Joe. He could’ve gave an hint today and tell us to watch Deal or No Deal. Interesting outcome, got the forums talking.
I don’t get to see previews of Deal or No Deal episodes beforehand. But yes, it was a cracking episode. She shouldn’t have dealt, the silly girl.
(POSSIBLE SPOILER)
Well, she said she’d have been gutted if she had gambled and dropped from £70k to £15k…
It was hugely disappointing all the same, though.
As for Million Pound Drop. I’m now curious where the show is going to fit in January’s schedule. 9pm is already reserved for new programming with the possiblity of Shameless and 10 O’Clock live being shunted for one week if they go for 10pm again.
Definitely won’t start until 23rd January.
How much have they ruined MasterChef? This is filling me with dread.
I can’t see it. What happened?
They’ve nicked format ideas from Masterchef Australia haven’t they? I don’t really watch either to be honest.
Its actually a very good series. Espeically the junior version. the american version was also good.
If it is the actual Aussie format, then great! I was addicted to the second series, 6 eps a week didn’t feel like a drag at all. The problem I have with the UK show remains though, and that’s the constant shouting and talking in soundbytes. And the bored voiceover woman.
The Aussie version isn’t my taste but I do think the UK version needed a kick up the arse. The heats were getting a bit samey and if they put on a 4-year-old repeat by accident I maybe wouldn’t realise.
The much missed website ‘Off The Telly’ wrote in one of their readable essays about bad programming around 5 years ago, that old Masterchef (the Grossman years) got stuck in a rut because no-one on the production team had any ideas how to get it out of said rut, and when the audience could tell which camera angle was coming next, as all the editions looked the same it was in real trouble.
Then Grossman started to bitch in the Radio Times and any publication that would listen when he was replaced by Gary Rhodes, that he couldn’t see why any changes needed to be made.
I would strongly argue, that without going down the Australian format road now rather than in a couple of series time, the current version of UK Masterchef was swerving dangerously into ‘history repeating’ territory.
Brig: “Univision was winning the evening in the 18-49s.”
¡GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
Sorry to say this Joe, but I don’t think MDMD could hold a candle to a soccer match with Andres Cantor commentating…
M$SD was not on opposite a soccer match. It was, and is, on opposite a telenovela. That makes its performance even more shameful!
(For the benefit of any who are not familiar with the format, a “telenovela” is similar to a soap opera. The major difference is that with American “sudsers” (or, if you prefer, either “Coronation Street” or “Emmerdale”), the stories just keep going and going. With the “telenovela”, the story comes to a definite–and often quite emotional–conclusion.
We used to have a soap opera here called “Search For Tomorrow”. Well, they searched for tomorrow for thirty-seven years, and never found it!
You ever wonder what it would take to make a Gladiator cry? Well wonder no more…(this is Tiffiny Hall- Angel from the 2008 version down there- in her new TV role as a trainer on the Australian version of The Biggest Loser)…