TV Ratings Report: In the Red (Widow)
Yet another late-season drama premiered to very low numbers last night, as Red Widow drew under seven million viewers for ABC.
Once Upon a Time also fell to a low in the 18-49-year old demographic, while The Good Wife showed signs of improvement...
8 p.m.
The Amazing Race: 9.1 million viewers
Once Upon a Time: 7.2 million
Dateline: 6 million
The Simpsons: 4.7 million/The Cleveland Show: 3.8 million
9 p.m.
The Good Wife: 8.9 million
Celebrity Apprentice: 5 million
Red Widow: 6.9 million
Family Guy rerun: 4.1 million/Bob's Burgers: 3.6 million
10 p.m.
The Mentalist: 9.1 million
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March 7th, 2013 9:15 AM
Watched Red Widow last night via on-Demand. Seemed like most of the 2 hours was commercials. For grins, I timed a Red Widow segment and the following commercial segment in last half hour. 7min 35sec vs 4min 15sec. That's 36% of the time devoted to commercials. Getting out of hand.
Rank: Guest Star
March 4th, 2013 9:30 PM
Go OUAT ! :)
Rank: Leading Character
March 4th, 2013 8:48 PM
Go Good Wife!
Rank: Regular Character
March 4th, 2013 4:35 PM
I think that ABC ratings is getting low because of all these breaks and you cannot start a show in the midseason because everybody already figure out which shows they are going to watch and they most likely would not change.
Rank: Extra
March 4th, 2013 4:11 PM
ETA: Shiller appeared just shy of the 1 hour mark (at around 9:55pm).
Rank: Extra
March 4th, 2013 4:10 PM
My roommates and I were genuinely excited for the Red Widow premiere and agreed to give it to the 1 hour mark to catch our interest. Due mainly to the character Shiller we stuck around until about 10:25, at which point we determined that we weren't emotionally invested in a single character and turned it off. The sad thing was that we really wanted to like it.
Zero Hour was much more engaging (though I still wasn't particularly invested).
Rank: Recurring Character
March 4th, 2013 3:27 PM
OMG what's happening, Once dropping to 7 millions (and 2.1 rating)! And the Mentalist with only 1.5 in the demo... That sounds like bad news for these shows.
March 4th, 2013 11:59 AM
Words getting around. Everyone I talked to today liked it - so I'll be watching next week.