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| Posted: 11 Feb 2008 23:39 | ||
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Just curious who agrees the WGA strike had a negative impact on FNL's ratings, content, etc.
To be fair, I think NBC could have played around with scheduling a little and taken advantage of FNL's new episodes during the strike - potentially drawing new viewers from other nights of the week. Also, does anyone think FNL stands any chance of getting picked up by a cable net? I know it's shot on location, but I'm guessing it's not any more expensive to produce than other three-camera dramas like ER (minus the inflated salaries of ER). |
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| Posted: 12 Feb 2008 04:11 | ||
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I think it could possibly be picked up by the CW.
Alot of people seem to think that ESPN is an option but I honestly don't think that would be a logical choice at all given the content Friday Night Lights has chosen to focus on. You better believe that if ESPN picked up FNL football would be back as the central focus of the show for season 3 (which could be the best thing possible in regards to the quality of the show but might turn off much of the current fan-base who has watched it thus far). And I think that sticking the show on Friday nights was almost like a statement by NBC that 'we don't really wanna have you but we don't wanna face the backlash if we cancelled ya so you can have your show on the most unpopular night (as friday nights is generally considered the deathbed for shows). I think if NBC was really serious about trying to save FNL they never would have stuck it on Friday Night. |
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| Posted: 17 Feb 2008 05:45 | ||
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| Hallelujah! I finally agree with Lastcat! I knew it was possible! | ||
| Posted: 17 Feb 2008 08:10 | ||
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I think how NBC handled FNL is similar to the fashion in which CBS is currently handling Jericho.
Sure CBS gave Jericho a few more episodes after the fans outcry. But they put it at a slot where a show already having trouble finding an audience would be almost assured of continuing its ratings struggles. |
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| Posted: 20 Feb 2008 22:52 | ||
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| I guess I just don't understand - with all the DVD and Internet revenue streams available to networks these days, why wouldn't they keep producing a show like FNL despite poor prime-time ratings? The more eps they produce, the more DVDs they'll sell, the more content they'll stream over the Internet and the more likely they'll be to sell the series into syndication. Sure, it doesn't make sense to keep a half-hour comedy alive this way, but I think it's got to make financial sense for a drama. Can someone with a background in TV economics tell me why this is a flawed proposition? I mean, you're not talking about a show that costs millions an episode to produce, right? | ||
| Posted: 21 Feb 2008 02:51 | ||
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| The reason why ratings are so important to networks is because advertisers pay the way for the programs. The more people that are watching the more the advertisers will pay them for their commercial to be seen at that time. Why are producing commercials during the Super Bowl so expensive? Because about a third of the country will be watching the Super Bowl. If a show is not making good ratings that means that advertisers will not pay alot of money for their commercial to be seen during that timeslot. And if a show is not bringing in the money for the network (and if its not getting good real time ratings chances are the dvd sells will not be great either) it is in the networks best interest to cancel it and try to start up another show that could make better money for them. | ||
| Posted: 21 Feb 2008 05:30 Last Edited By: AliasJude | ||
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I started watching the show when it first came on the air. Frankly, a lot of shows I absolutely love have something in common: initially, I thought they would all be stupid. FNL is no exception. I loved the film. It is one of the best sports films ever made. However, I was a skeptic in terms of whether or not it was possible for it to be more than just a football show. So, I didn't go out of my way to find out what time FNL is on (besides, NBC didn't really go out of its way either to inform the viewers when the show aired). Thank God, I always caught the show by accident. Besides, they changed the nights a few times. I think it used to be on Monday, I might have seen it once on a Tuesday or something, then on Wednesday, and I think they showed reruns on Sunday. I don't know, the schedule was all over the place. Yet each time I accidentally caught the show, I was always blown away by how it was completely different than anything I have seen on network television. I fell in love with the show. I still love the show because I love the characters and the community it is representing. It's a part of middle class America that isn't really seen in the media. It enlightens us all in the fact that we all experience the same struggles with family, economics, our dreams destroyed by things we can't control, etc. I suppose a huge "problem" is that the show is so right on with depicting reality that people can't deal with watching it because they can relate to it beyond their comfort zone. Well, season one at least...
Does anyone know if the hits FNL receives when episodes are watched online counts towards ratings? I mean, the fans of the show most likely would be at football games on Friday nights so they would either TiVo it or watch it online. It seems like the execs at NBC planned it that way so the show is set up to fail due to the fact that the show isn't making money and also due to the fact that advertisers will not invest in a show with low ratings, as lastcat brilliantly pointed out. Coach Eric Taylor: "That's what I'm saying." 
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| Posted: 21 Feb 2008 07:00 | ||
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Nope they don't Alias. The way they get the data for the ratings is through Nielsen Media Research. And Nielsen gets their numbers by a various number of people who volunteer to have their viewing habits monitored. They have a little black box hooked up to the television set and it monitors every channel they watch at the time they are watching it. If I remember right I think one household equals 40,000 people (the ratings numbers are just estimates(so if FNL averaged around 6 million viewers that means that they were monitoring 150 people who were watching it)).
They are starting to bring tivos and dvr's into effect more in the ratings but online viewing is still of no significance. What you will find though in regards to the dvrs and tivo is that generally the highest rated shows are generally the most taped as well. |
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| Posted: 22 Feb 2008 06:53 | ||
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| Blimey. Thanks for the info man. It's kind of like the average joe voter as opposed to the super delegate...or something. Boo. | ||
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