"Happy Gilmore" Neilsen ratings
POSTED BY: Doug
UPDATED: Monday, November 25, 2002 05:08
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The movie "Happy Gilmore," airing for the umpteenth time Friday night in the FIREFLY/JOHN DOE time slots, scored a 4.3/8 in the Neilsens. That's not good news. This tells Fox that there are people out there on Fridays willing to watch Fox.
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(Tugging at collar) Gulp.
That movie has been on so many times it's insane - and it still gets a better rating then most Firefly episodes?
This is bad.
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May the wind be always at your back.
May you be in heaven an hour before
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Exactly Hobbes. I hope that FOX will realize from this that if they really want to support FIREFLY they have to move it out of that Friday night timeslot. Otherwise, FIREFLY is going to end up collecting dust on some shelf along with VR5, STRANGE LUCK, THE VISITOR, FREAKYLINKS, and LONE GUNMEN.
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Not to mention Harsh Realm, and of course - SAAB.
I think Monday nights at 9 PM would be good, after all that slot is open since Girls Club vanished.
The funny thing is that Firelfy is the #6 Sci-Fi show last week, according to that sidebar at Sci Fi Wire. Ahead of Angel, and Enterprise,and just behind Buffy - but they are on smaller networks.
Oh, and those "Happy Gilmore" ratings are the overnight, right - which means they will probably go up (I think)
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This is nothing. Specials and movies routinely score higher than the regular series in the same time slots on the same networks. That's why the networks put them there for sweeps periods. It's common knowledge. And if you say that this particular movie has been on a lot, then that should tell you that it must keep doing well, so OF COURSE it was to be expected that it would get good ratings.
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Then why doesn't Fox just replace Firefly with a constant stream of specials and movies?
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The reason why Fox doesn’t show movies every week is because even though they got a 4.3 this week there is no guaranty that they will get the same ratings next week and the week after and so on. At least with Firefly they know they are going to get a consistent 2.9 every week and have potential to get even higher ratings over time. It makes more sense for Fox to have a show with a strong core audience which they can build on than having to select a different movie every week, giving them wildly fluctuating gatings with no core audience to build on.
In The Immortal Words of Douglas Adams DON'T PANIC
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Now I understand, thank you.
DON'T PANIC - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. entry Earth - Harmless. Later amended to - Mostly Harmless.
Gotta love those books, though I think the first 3 were the best.
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Actually, the put-in-another-movie-every-time thing has been tried by some channels at some time slots. But the results weren't ever nearly as good as a good series, and sometimes were worse than a bad one. And they'd usually try to sell it as a faux-series ("movies for guys who like movies") or turn it into a series by adding their own material (the one with the "hosts" cooking different recipes and commenting on the movies at the start or end of each commercial break).
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I see you've watched TBS (or at least a channel that does the exact same thing still).
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May you be in heaven an hour before
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