tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149153403168306818.post3504643500709090540..comments2023-09-30T09:11:03.048-04:00Comments on SpottedRatings.com: Fox True Power Rankings, May 2014Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01222504847153680060noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149153403168306818.post-67497877324923293792014-05-03T14:12:57.394-04:002014-05-03T14:12:57.394-04:00They can't possibly show Glee on Tuesday next ...They can't possibly show Glee on Tuesday next season. New Girl never dipped below a 1.6, (other than the genius decision to air it opposite the Olympics, which in turn has resulted in only having 3 new episodes to air over the last 8 weeks) and typically beat the Goldbergs before Glee took over at 8pm and started turning in sub-1 demos. Dads and Brooklyn 99 would still be a better option if they're not going to explore moving the entire comedy block to a new night. The shows will never hit 2s again, but in addition to the nice 18-34 numbers, Brooklyn 99 and New Girl at least have notable DVR boosts.Spothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222504847153680060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149153403168306818.post-7228690833018068822014-05-02T19:59:37.728-04:002014-05-02T19:59:37.728-04:00"the idea of Fox wanting a balance between &q..."the idea of Fox wanting a balance between "limited run" and "full season" dramas"<br /><br /><br /><br />How many full season shows would they really need, though? Sleepy Hollow and Hieroglyph on Mondays in the fall, then in the spring would be The Following (heh) and...Gotham? Backstrom? Tuesday might well be a surrender night as Glee, NG and TMP all need a place to go. Friday will be a mix of reality and Bones. The real wild card in this is Utopia. We don't know how long it will run or how many days it will air. If FOX wants it to plug in the two hours on Wednesday/one hour on Thursday role that XF and AI did, they could be in for a rude awakening.Spothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222504847153680060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149153403168306818.post-61780610593404133622014-05-01T18:05:20.918-04:002014-05-01T18:05:20.918-04:00I just feel like they could air it in the fall and...I just feel like they could air it in the fall and premiere Bordertown midseason, perhaps after the Wildcard game. Don't get me wrong, Bordertown sounds terrible, but what else do they have?Spothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222504847153680060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149153403168306818.post-42841087332655493702014-05-01T17:59:52.224-04:002014-05-01T17:59:52.224-04:00Anger Management airing on Fox last summer was a c...Anger Management airing on Fox last summer was a contractual thing because the show's ratings fell through a certain point on FX. Since getting out of the 10/90 agreement was too pricey, News Corp had to give Anger a bigger/more visible platform to remind people that it exists.<br /><br />Archer is too cable-esque in terms of content, and Adam Reed is very unlikely to want to make 22 episodes per season of the show. Heck, he changed the premise for this season simply because he was bored.Spothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222504847153680060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149153403168306818.post-13249654867313174942014-05-01T13:00:20.475-04:002014-05-01T13:00:20.475-04:00Fox 2014-15 schedule
Sunday:
Simpsons
Bob's B...Fox 2014-15 schedule<br /><br />Sunday:<br />Simpsons<br />Bob's Burgers<br />Family Guy<br />Bordertown<br /><br />Monday:<br />Bones<br />Gotham<br /><br />Tuesday:<br />Glee<br />New Girl <br />Mindy Project<br /><br />Wednesday:<br />Sleepy Hollow<br />Hieroglyph<br /><br />Thursday:<br />Master Hell Kitchen Hotel (one of them)<br />Brooklyn 99<br />New Comedy<br /><br />Friday:<br />Masterchef Junior<br />Gotham (encores)<br /><br />Saturday:<br />College Football<br /><br />Midseason:<br />Idol takes over the Sleepy Hollow, Hieroglyph, and Gordon Ramsay slot. <br />The Following takes Gotham's place. If they bring back Cosmos they can use it on Friday to replace JuniorSpothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222504847153680060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149153403168306818.post-46087042885179827102014-05-01T12:52:06.420-04:002014-05-01T12:52:06.420-04:00New Girl is a disaster. It has 2.9 to a 1.1 in the...New Girl is a disaster. It has 2.9 to a 1.1 in the same slot across this season. If you discount the premiere you still have a 2.1 to 1.1 drop. <br /><br />I think Bob's Burgers move was an attempt to see its anchoring power. It's already renewed, so ratings don't really matter (see Glee for proof). They are looking for something to replace the Simpsons. It sure won't be Bordertown. I'm surprised they never tried importing Archer. Anger Management proves they can import with relative ease and it would work well in a Simpsons/Bob's/Family/Archer nightSpothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222504847153680060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149153403168306818.post-48939756583025994682014-05-01T11:41:49.748-04:002014-05-01T11:41:49.748-04:00Almost Human vs The Following. It seems they alway...Almost Human vs The Following. It seems they always intended to renew only one of two, and I think AH simply was the victim of what ratio Fox wants between procedural and serialized dramas.<br />Almost Human was all the time very likely cancellation in my book, never even near the bubble. But I thought there's some 5-10% chance Fox would need it as a 13-episodes spackle. However, now they're developing even more new dramas (Empire; Red Band Society...), so probably they like those as a backups more than AH.<br /><br />Mindy / Glee / New Girl all have W18-34 ratings way above their A18-49, so all those are very justified renewals. I mean, this season's New Girl revenue is close to the one by Fox No1 drama Sleepy Hollow. Other two don't earn so much, obviously - but are on par with their other renewed dramas, if not above it. But this late season collapse of New Girl, and big drop of Glee are worrying.<br /><br />Brooklyn Nine-Nine was a strange decision. Its ratings screams it would be bellow 1.0 sooner or later during Season 2, then being burn off on Friday or wherever.<br /><br />Dads? Brooklyn Nine-Nine at least has some moderate A18-34 appeal, and Fox has hope it could get new live viewers thanks to awards and critical acclaim (false hope, I'd say). But Dads has really nothing. If renewed, it would be the strangest renewal of the season across all networks. If Fox would schedule old skewing show in between M18-34 Sunday shows, it would seriously disrupt the night. They could already see it on Tuesday, only regarding W18-34. Here's some W18-34 of New Girl from early 2014 when its lead-in changed frequently:<br />Date / NG W18-34 / lead-in<br />1/7/2014 2.3 Brooklyn Nine-Nine<br />1/14/2014 2.1 Brooklyn Nine-Nine<br />1/21/2014 2.4 Brooklyn Nine-Nine<br />2/4/2014 2.1 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (R)<br />2/11/2014 1.5 Dads (1 hour)<br />2/25/2014 2.0 Glee<br />3/4/2014 2.0 Glee<br />3/11/2014 1.8 Glee<br /><br />More male-skewing B99 doesn't help NG, but at least it doesn't harm it. Same goes for more teenage skewing Glee, even when Glee bottomed at 0.9 A18-49 / 1.2 W18-34, NG managed to get 1.8 W18-34 out of such a poor lead-in. But Dads is simply a pest. I'm sure Fox is aware of it.Spothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222504847153680060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149153403168306818.post-58407428826323667392014-05-01T10:52:45.671-04:002014-05-01T10:52:45.671-04:00Ha. We had the same thought about Tuesdays. And un...Ha. <a href="http://www.spottedratings.com/2014/04/spotted-ratings-tuesday-42914.html#comment-1362913783" rel="nofollow">We had the same thought</a> about Tuesdays. And unless Fox thinks there's a huge shared audience between Junior MasterChef and Glee, it most likely stays on Tuesdays simply because there's more upside to putting newbies (or Bones) on Wednesdays and Thursdays than something that's deteriorated to this point. Glee was a flame-out in the making; the heat was simply turned up after moving away from Grey's Anatomy to face The Voice.<br /><br /><br />If Tuesdays become a Surrender Night, then Fox should at least try to salvage Brooklyn 9-9 from it. Keeping Glee on the night actually makes that easier to envision as there'd be no room for it anyway amongst it, New Girl, and The Mindy Project. Otherwise, can anyone picture any live-action comedy currently on Fox's schedule making it to 2015-2016? The Mindy Project's not owned by Fox's sister studio, so there's little incentive to drag it to the "proper" syndication finish line. (Can't wait to see The Mindy Project with 5 smileys on TVBTN's R/C Index next season.)<br /><br /><br /><br />The main reason I thought Almost Human stood a chance was the idea of Fox wanting a balance between "limited run" and "full season" dramas. Continually launching new limited run shows has to hit the tipping point of being too expensive than full season shows sooner or later.<br /><br /><br />I still don't understand why Bob's Burgers got the weaker 7:00 half hour instead of American Dad's 7:30 half. Why coddle a show that's moving to a cable network instead of the one you've already renewed for next season? Now I have to think the possibility exists that Fox picks up two new animated shows for the :30 slots and gives Bob's Burgers the The Cleveland Show/Futurama/King of the Hill treatment.<br /><br /><br /><br />Part of what hurts Sunday 7:00 shows is the lack of consistent lead-ins. Sometimes it's sports, sometimes local affiliates sub in alternate programming, sometimes it's the weekend version of the network's evening news franchise. I'm curious what the HUT disparity is between 7:00 PM shows on Sundays versus the same time on Monday through Friday and how much Sunday at 8:00 shows benefit, if at all, from not having to "self-start." (Hard to imagine that 60 Minutes and AFV really assist The Amazing Race and Once Upon a Time, respectively, in a statistically meaningful way but it's possible.) Of all the networks, ABC probably makes for the best control group for the season as it's the only network that consistently starts at 7:00 instead of having football distort its schedule.Spothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222504847153680060noreply@blogger.com