Some more TV musing...

[katikat]

So, last night, the CW aired new episodes of their reality show Crowned and the new teeny soap opera Gossip Girl (I heard that the books are better than the show but I didn't read them and neither did I see the show, yet). But why am I talking about it? Neither of them drew in more than 1.8 mil. viewers. With new eps. And no real competition on a Wednesday night. That's like 1 mil. less than the week before. I mean, huh? What's going on? Didn't the CW promote them enough? I have no idea, I'm just curious... Last week, it was Smallville, now these series... The only CW show that got its usual numbers for a new episode was Supernatural.

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Apparently, the new episodes of Torchwood will start airing on Jan. 26th in the US, only 10 days after their premiere in the UK. The BBC is obviously milking their best show for what's worth it :D I wanted to buy it on DVD, but sorry, as much as I love the show, 13-ep-series isn't worth 40 pounds or 55 bucks. No way, nuh uh :(

Comments

[misty-writes.livejournal.com]

...Seriously? Just 1 million? :( I am so afraid that The CW is just going to flat-out run out of money. Then who's going to air Supernatural?! *frets*

[ckll.livejournal.com]

CW promotes a lot the 'Gossip girl'. I think SPN goes terrific with suck competition and soon, it'll have 'Lost' as opposite

[astri13.livejournal.com]

I think so close to the holidays people just assume all that`s shown are re-runs. Besides, Gossip Girl lives on i-tunes, not on TV.
Which proves the idiocy of the whole CW business concept of targeting the teen market. Those people have drastically changed their viewing habits, you doofuses. That worked 10 years ago in the WB glory days but not anymore.

Well, considering Warner Brothers seems to be the golden looking company right now, even looking to buy of CBS and they produce Supernatural so they get all the money of international sales, DVDs and merchandise.

Smallville is too old to make lots of money of it and Reaper doesn`t yet have proven its capability to do so. So there is a better chance for Supernatural in the case of the whole CW crumbling than for the other shows. Warner could look to sell it to cable or whatnot to keep the little money-machine going.

[bendtothesun.livejournal.com]

*eyes her DW dvds* ...yeah, about that...

*grins* well you can always wait and do what I did. Once a year DeepDiscount has a giant sale, half off, on one order (and you can have like ten dvds or whatever in that order) and that's how I came to own series 1&2 of the New Who.

So there's always that.

[lostandalone22.livejournal.com]

I think the problem with "Crowned," is that it's clearly a replacement show, and there was a decision that, to support the Writer's Strike, those wouldn't be watched.