Ratings Thread: Who's Sabotaging the Ratings?

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Edinboro		#81	[-]
Posts: 1873 (06/17/08 2:15 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	This really blows but none of the ratings in past seasons were ever amazing so I dont expect to see them rise, no matter what timeslot they use.
Joaqenix		#82	[-]
Posts: 1473 (06/17/08 9:50 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Why are people still freaking out about the timeslot? The show is dead as dead can be at this point. If you want to freak out about something, freak out about the possibility of them not airing the rest of the season, not the bad timeslot. Those ratings are abysmal, especially for ABC.
Dr Will Hatch two point oh		#83	[-]
Posts: 3926 (06/18/08 11:04 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Utopian wrote: I don't understand!!! Besides the bad timeslot, what the fuck is going on here... It's because the premise of the show makes no sense. One person, unknown to the rest, is the Mole and it's that person's task to keep everyone else from winning money by sabotaging that episode's mission. But if you are the person that episdoe who is least able to figure out who the saboteur is, you go home. So if I'm not the Mole, my best strategy is to make everyone think I am so they'll guess wrong and go home before me. So now I'll do what the Mole is supposed to be doing, and purposefully blow the missions. After all, it's better to be the last contestant standing, even if the payoff is poor. Plus, I also screw the Mole because the Mole can't take credit for a mission not being accomplished. Which means all the smart people will try to tank every mission in order to get all the rest to think they're the Mole. So you have everyone pretending to be the Mole which kind of defeats the whole purpose of the game. Not necessarily. The smarter players throw deflection onto other players, or develop shell coalitions to lure them into a false sense of security.
agent2424		#84	[-]
Posts: 2944 (06/18/08 11:30 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	they definetly need better advertising for this show, I'm sure many people don't know about the concept like me, it was pretty much by accident i tuned into this show otherwise i wouldn't have known. The type of advertisment Survivor has or Big Brother is how those shows still run well, lots of ads about them and stuff like that.
SirAmbrosius		#85	[-]
Posts: 23 (06/19/08 7:52 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Well, what do you guys really think? Is it going to be canceled or what? If the other ratings on past seasons of the show were not the best, why would they totally cancel the series after this one?
The Mole 3K		#86	[-]
Posts: 455 (06/19/08 9:50 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Well, the problem is that "not the best" for other seasons would be totally welcome here. Season One averaged about 12.9m, The Next Betrayal was about 6.9m, Celebrity Hawaii averaged 11.0m, and Celebrity Yucatan clocked in with around 8.7m average viewers. Right now, we're looking at less than 4m. Certainly, it's a different time, ratings are down across the board and expectations have been lowered since 2004. However, I believe this season is the lowest-rated original summer series on the big 4 networks right now. It should also be doing better in the 18-49 and 18-34 demos; those are made the show last four seasons originally.
Pulau Tiga		#87	[-]
Posts: 4229 (06/19/08 9:52 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Utopian wrote: Which means all the smart people will try to tank every mission in order to get all the rest to think they're the Mole. So you have everyone pretending to be the Mole which kind of defeats the whole purpose of the game. You underestimate the power of greed. If the other ratings on past seasons of the show were not the best, why would they totally cancel the series after this one? They already canceled the show during said past seasons. Twice. In the same season.
blmetsfan		#88	[-]
Posts: 1756 (06/24/08 9:37 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Last night it did 4.1 mil and 1.6 in the 18-49 demo. At least it didn't drop.
agent2424		#89	[-]
Posts: 2955 (06/24/08 10:41 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	eek the ratings are bad, I hope they don't cancel it,
ChynS		#90	[-]
Posts: 802 (06/24/08 10:45 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Whew! At least it didn't drop. But that could be on account of the great episode last week. The way this week's show was, we might be worried again next week! But there was a ton of commercials last night! Unless they were giving the time slots away or BOGO, I can't see them canceling this show!
SardonicallyIrrelevant		#91	[-]
Posts: 18073 (06/25/08 12:36 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	So of course Wipeout was a big hit last night. Was it timeslot? The ample supply of stupid people watching television? Murphy's law?
ChynS		#92	[-]
Posts: 806 (06/25/08 8:30 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I certainly won't bother with Wipeout! From the preview, I thought some of those might be ex-Dream-Teamers. So that would just be a copy of someones small part of creativity. (Does that make sense?) But I did take a peak at the Japanese Game show thing. I can't help it. They look familiar and I felt comfortable. Funny how I never bothered to watch those back home.
Goosehead		#93	[-]
Posts: 983 (07/01/08 3:51 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Anyone got the ep. 5 ratings?
howiekendrick		#94	[-]
Posts: 13 (07/01/08 4:38 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Goosehead wrote: Anyone got the ep. 5 ratings? The Mole finished third in its timeslot, with a 2.8/5. http://www.zap2it.com/tv/ratings/zap-ratings063008,0,1860232.story Last Edited By: howiekendrick 07/01/08 4:40 PM. Edited 1 times.
moovivor		#95	[-]
Posts: 8413 (07/02/08 10:17 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I was at a friend's house when the show came on and convinced her to watch. She's watching the recap next week and is going to start watching! So one more viewer! That's, what, like a 20% increase for the show?
TAR Addict		#96	[-]
Posts: 272 (07/03/08 1:32 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Well, even if these ratings kill it forever at least we got 1 more season.
Survivor Boy		#97	[-]
Posts: 5838 (07/03/08 2:11 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Fuck, this season is pretty good too.
DeanerBigBro		#98	[-]
Posts: 407 (07/03/08 6:08 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Hope this recap can capture more viewers! We need more seasons!
steinguy919		#99	[-]
Posts: 382 (07/03/08 11:08 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Interesting little trend with the DVR numbers. Although it's still the lowest rated of all top 20 shows: http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/06/30/hells-kitchen-has-198-million-dvr-viewers/4283
Heliox		#100	[-]
Posts: 772 (07/04/08 2:17 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I am curious, do the Neilsen ratings now include DVR numbers? It makes sense that the Mole is taped for viewing later, due to its horrific time slot.

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