Archive through September 21, 2000
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Archive through September 21, 2000
Chrisp | Monday, August 28, 2000 - 12:43 am  Week of Aug 21-27
| Date | Weekday | BB Rating | #1 Rating | #1 Show | Graph BB #1 | 8/21/00 | Monday | 6.9 | 8.3 | Monday Night Football | | 8/22/00 | Tuesday | 5.4 | 14.2 | WWTBA Millionaire | | 8/23/00 | Wednesday | (preempted) | 30.8 | Survivor | | - | | | | 8/24/00 | Thursday | 6.1 | 12.5 | WWTBA Millionaire | | 8/25/00 | Friday | 4.6 | 6.8 | Law & Order: SVU | | 8/26/00 | Saturday | 4.0 | 5.8 | America's Most Wanted | | |
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Chrisp | Monday, August 28, 2000 - 12:57 am  Donnalea -- Most online sources of ratings information only list the weekly rankings, not the daily rankings. I suppose I could take the time to glean the daily rankings from the zap2it.com data, but as it is, it already takes up about as much time as I can spare, and the table is already a bit crowded...someone else wanna do it? One thing I can say: BB is not in the "ratings basement" as others may have you believe. Its rank puts it pretty much in the middle of the pack, I think. About this week's ratings: a. Survivor's ratings were amazing! b. If Thursday is any indication, BB looks like it's definitely going to suffer from Survivor's absence. c. BB did not, as was posted in the General area, get beaten by WWF Smackdown, at least according to my source. WWF Smackdown only scored a 5.7 average rating on Thursday night. |
Donnalea | Monday, August 28, 2000 - 11:06 am  Thank you for the information Chrisp. I didn't know that and I understand what a pain that would be. |
Ccc | Monday, August 28, 2000 - 11:18 am  Perhaps if CBS would make the show an hour long the ratings would rise. When we watch BB, there is nothing to watch for 30 min after - unless you happen to like Candid Camera - NOT! |
Chrisp | Friday, September 01, 2000 - 07:33 am  Interesting story: Wednesday's episode was the highest-rated episode not benefiting from a Survivor lead-in. See: http://tv.zap2it.com/news/networkupdate.html?11386 |
Egbok77 | Friday, September 01, 2000 - 08:10 am  Hey Chrisp!! Thank you for this informative posting. I'm sure it does take a lot of your valuable time to keep it going and you've gotta know just how much we appreciate YOU!!! You're #1. |
Lucinda | Friday, September 01, 2000 - 09:07 am  Thursday night: Big Brother 5.4, UPN Smackdown: 6.1 with a peak of 6.6. YES, wrestling IS beating BB. CBS is coming in fourth, trailing UPN!!! Once again, yes, Jamie, BB is "huge" |
Jake | Friday, September 01, 2000 - 01:46 pm  Very nice of you to provide this information in such an easy-to-read format CHRISP! Thank you!!! |
Penelope288 | Saturday, September 02, 2000 - 03:06 pm  Thanks, Chrisp! |
Chrisp | Tuesday, September 05, 2000 - 12:55 pm  Week of Aug 28 - Sep 3
| Date | Weekday | BB Rating | #1 Rating | #1 Show | Graph BB #1 | 8/28/00 | Monday | 6.4 | 9.2 | Everybody Loves Raymond | | 8/29/00 | Tuesday | 5.3 | 14.5 | WWTBA Millionaire | | 8/30/00 | Wednesday | 7.5 | 9.5 | Law & Order | | 8/31/00 | Thursday | 5.4 | 13.1 | WWTBA Millionaire | | 9/1/00 | Friday | 4.8 | 6.8 | Law & Order: SVU | | 9/2/00 | Saturday | 3.7 | 5.8 | Cops | | |
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Delia | Wednesday, September 06, 2000 - 09:24 pm  Hello Chrisp: Thank you for your work here. Is there anything to the rumor I read in the General Section of this forum that Endemol supposedly wants to cancel BB and send the remaining HGs home with nothing? I can't imagine Endemol doing that with only 3 weeks left for the show. Thanks. Delia |
La33 | Thursday, September 07, 2000 - 07:09 am  These reality shows are suppose to get more viewers as time goes on and the suspense increases. Not the case for BB - their numbers are dropping and they're losing to shows that in in reruns. CBS really blew it with BB. |
Chrisp | Thursday, September 07, 2000 - 09:16 am  La33 -- Yes, BB episodes lose to rerun episodes of popular shows. But it also handily BEATS rerun episodes of many shows. I'll say it again and again -- BB is NOT a ratings loser. Maybe I should start posting each night's LOWEST rated show as well as the highest. If you go back and look at the data posted on zap2it.com, you'll see that, every night that BB airs, there are a handful of shows that only pull in ratings in 1.0-2.0 range, usually on the Fox and WB networks. In fact, BB has ALSO managed to handily BEAT NEW episodes of NEW shows on some networks. "American High", the reality-based documentary of teens in an Illinois high school, was cancelled after two weeks because it could not compete with BB's ratings. Delia -- I think that rumor is most certainly FALSE. First of all, Endemol is the company that sold the show to CBS. They don't have the ability to cancel the show -- CBS would cancel BB, not Endemol. Even so, I don't think CBS will do that, because of the afore-mentioned factors: (1) it's cheap to produce, and (2) it's doing better in the ratings than CBS's own reruns would. |
Chrisp | Thursday, September 07, 2000 - 09:32 am  OK, more proof that BB is NOT a ratings loser. Here is a ranking of the broadcast network programs for last night (Wednesday, 9/6/00), including their rating. Notice the names of the shows that BB beat handily:
| Rank | Show | Rating | 1 | Law & Order | 9.3 | 2 | The West Wing | 8.3 | 3 | Dateline | 7.9 | 4 | Big Brother | 7.9 | 5 | The Drew Carey Show | 7.0 | 6 | Movie: To Face Her Past | 6.9 | 7 | Hopkins 24/7 | 6.8 | 8 | Spin City | 6.3 | 9 | Guinness World Records | 5.8 | 10 | Two Guys and a Girl | 5.2 | 11 | Norm | 4.7 | 12 | King of the Hill | 4.3 | 13 | Family Guy | 3.9 | 14 | Seven Days | 2.4 | 15 | Dawson's Creek | 2.4 | 16 | Star Trek: Voyager | 2.3 | 17 | Roswell | 2.3 | | This is fairly typical of a live-show night. |
Chrisp | Thursday, September 07, 2000 - 09:52 am  "Yeah", you say, "but that's BB's highest rated night of the week. What about the other nights?" Glad you asked. Here's the same data for last Tuesday night, 8/29/00, which is pretty representative of BB's overall performance:
| Rank | Show | Rating | 1 | WWTBA Millionaire | 14.5 | 2 | Dharma & Greg | 8.4 | 3 | Dateline | 7.4 | 4 | 60 Minutes II | 7.2 | 5 | Judging Amy | 7.0 | 6 | Just Shoot Me | 6.8 | 7 | Frasier | 6.4 | 8 | Norm | 5.6 | 9 | Big Brother | 5.3 | 10 | Access Hollywood's Top 10 | 4.8 | 11 | NYPD Blue | 4.4 | 12 | That 70's Show | 4.3 | 13 | Titus | 4.0 | 14 | Family Guy | 3.8 | 15 | Ladies Man | 3.6 | 16 | The PJs | 3.4 | | As I've said all along, it's pretty much in the middle of the pack, along with a lot of other shows that the networks have seen fit to keep on the air for more than one season. |
Teecee | Thursday, September 07, 2000 - 01:35 pm  "Yeah", I say, "but the other shows are *reruns*, while BB is not." Sorry to ask for yet more legwork, but do you have any information on how BB is doing in its time slot? I watch TV very rarely (other than wrestling, football, and formerly BB) and don't really know what other shows are on at which times. Someone mentioned that BB lost to Smackdown and I believe it - WWF provides a much better soap opera than Curtis, Cassandra et al. |
Lafatme | Friday, September 08, 2000 - 01:58 am  it seems to me that cbs would not want to cancel BB. if anything, they may want to pull a few of the 1/2 hr shows. maybe they'll go to just wed and sat live shows. probably not even that. my point is that you don't cancel a 6 night a week show because some nights aren't that good. |
Wannabee | Monday, September 11, 2000 - 06:22 pm  It would be nice if one of the columns had the ranking BB had and not just the share. You are doing a great job though with all the info you have here. |
Reid | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 06:08 am  I saw this on MSNBC's site today: Meanwhile, with perennial hit “60 Minutes” muted by Sunday night’s Emmy Awards, CBS’s highest rated show turned out to be everyone’s favorite slow, torturous crawl toward insanity — otherwise known as Big Brother. The ratings weren’t much different from previous weeks’ episodes of the voyeuristic zoo exhibit, but Wednesday night’s live episode (in which producers asked for a volunteer to take a hike for $50,000) grabbed a 7.9 household rating and 14 share. |
Chrisp | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:52 am  Week of Sept 4-10
| Date | Weekday | BB Rating | #1 Rating | #1 Show | Graph BB #1 | 9/4/00 | Monday | 5.5 | 14.4 | Monday Night Football | | 9/5/00 | Tuesday | 5.7 | 15.2 | WWTBA Millionaire | | 9/6/00 | Wednesday | 7.9 | 9.3 | Law & Order | | 9/7/00 | Thursday | 5.4 | 13.0 | WWTBA Millionaire | | 9/8/00 | Friday | 4.9 | 6.8 | 20/20 | | 9/9/00 | Saturday | 6.0 | 6.5 | Movie: Sleepless in Seattle | | |
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Korang | Friday, September 15, 2000 - 08:17 am  I had no idea Millionaire was still so popular! wow. I thought the Millionaire craze has been and gone but well, i guess i'm wrong ABC seems to be kicking ass along the board... |
Masterchap | Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 10:57 am  Last night's live show received a 5.1/8 ranking (Zap2it), which would have been good enough for 72nd place last week. The ranking of each Big Brother show for the week 9/11 - 9/17 from page 4D, USA Today: MONDAY - 31st TUESDAY - 39th WEDNESDAY (live) - 16th THURSDAY - 42nd FRIDAY - 55th SATURDAY (live) - 62nd Saturday's live show drew poorer ratings than, among others, reruns of Fox staplesCops, King of the Hill, and That 70's Show. Norm beat it out as well. To add insult to injury, today I logged onto the BBFC website at an elementary school where I'm doing a research study. A fourth grader saw the site and said, "You actually watch that show?" Shame-facedly, I admitted I did. He informed me that he did not. |
Affinity | Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 11:11 am  millionaire is the stupidest show i've ever seen, what stupid people, not like BB is any better, but still! |
Ryn | Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 11:15 am  A fourth grader SHOULD NOT be watching the show anyways ;) |
Masterchap | Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 11:20 am  Ryn, I was shocked to hear fourth graders quoting Eminem lyrics. Big Brother, I think, seems tame by comaprison. |
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