Eh, the CW never made money as a network since the second season of Supernatural, it was never their model.

The money came from selling their programming to the local stations and streaming.

And reruns of shows so old that they were references on Seinfeld.

Do we know the completion rate ?

Another cool honorable mention would be Tony Shaloub in that shadow episode!

The 154,970,000 hours Outer Banks scored on opening week translated into 17.6 million equivalent complete viewings. Pretty impressive and up from the 12.3 million the second season opened with nearly two years ago. The caveat being this season had an extra day of viewing to add in thanks to the Thursday vs Friday release date. Still impressive and it looks like they made a smart call to renew this for a 4th season in advance of the 3rd season getting released. I’m expecting a small dip next week but still good numbers. YA shows tend to be front loaded unless they are Stranger Things or Wednesday.

The other big success of the week was the Murdaugh Murders docuseries. It got 17 million and just got pipped by Outer Banks in equivalent complete viewings but it is still a big hit for Netflix!

Triptych also had a good debut week. The Spanish language thriller opened to 9 million. That is the best opening week for a non-English show so far in 2023 and the third best weekly numbers for non-English shows in general for 2023 behind the second week of The Glory and the second week of The Snow Girl.

The other debut show was Drive To Survive s5. It opened to a modest 3.9 million. That pipped the 2.9 million opening of Full Swing (which dipped out of the charts after a single week).

Perfect Match gets good engagement in viewing hours but has been a modest performer in equivalent complete viewings with 2.2 million on opening week and 3.6 million this week.

Elsewhere Lidia Poet got 4.6 million, Ganglands s2 got 3.7 million, Red Rose got 3.7 million second weeks.

You s4 got a 6.8 million (-57%) third week. A bad drop but low runtime shows tend to burnout fast. It is already at 45 million though 3 weeks and should land about 48-49 million over 4 weeks. That will be a bit down on the low 50s the third season achieved but the drop is not problematic and the show is still a hit.

Pretty much nothing else worth noting except the fact that The Upshaws Part 3 has completely failed to chart on opening weekend and is on target to be a rare US original that failed to enter the charts at all! Expect the 4th part to be the last for the show.

The big shows next week are Sex/Life s2 and Wrong Side of the Tracks s2. Both were solid performers in their first season so it will be interesting to see if they can hold up in their second seasons.

This scene haunted me for years.

Hey it’s Tuesday! Pig’n’poke!

Haha, I appreciate the enthusiasm of that response.

I'd be interested in seeing a reboot of Alias as long as they stick to spy stories and avoid alien storylines.

Fuck yeah brother! That show is the who's who of really prominent actors

Agents of SHIELD: Season 4

True Detective: Season 1

Justified: Season 3

Your stats show that the show dropped off after the first two episodes were released by 25%, and sustained that drop until the end of the season (exactly like I said).

Amazon had to literally turn off their rating system because they were worried about the tanking ratings viewers were giving it. They invested a ridiculous amount of money and viewers were giving them bad ratings 😂

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-still-quiet-rings-of-power-finale-viewership-numbers-2022-10?amp

https://variety.com/vip/amazons-silence-on-the-rings-of-power-audience-size-is-deafening-1235422462/

This article says what both of us are saying. Yes, it was successful in some regards but it hard a tremendous drop off that never caught up to itself. The rating are also surrounded by asterisks because Amazon does not release its streaming data and they are hazy about their statistics.

‘Still, this pattern suggests “Rings’” audience shrank as the season went on, with little catch-up watching by new viewers taking place midseason. Even when viewing time rose again, it failed to reach the heights of the series' initial weeks of release. The steeper (around 20%) dropoff from its first two weeks also suggests many viewers who checked out the series early on didn’t continue watching it — not a great sign for its growth potential.’

https://winteriscoming.net/2022/11/07/the-lord-of-the-rings-of-power-amazon-shrank-viewership-shrank/amp/

Every time I see Giovanni Ribisi I picture him as that kid that could control electricity and switch the stop lights to crash cars.

Primetime Total Viewers:

1. Fox News averaged 2.26 million total viewers in primetime, down 14% from a year earlier.

2. MSNBC averaged 1.17 million viewers, down 2%,

3. CNN averaged 587,000, down 24%.

25-54 Demo:

1. Fox News averaged 299,000, down 33%

2. CNN averaged 122,000, down 42%

3. MSNBC averaged 119,000, off by 15%.

Or you could just not pay the fee and ignore their clumsy attempts to make you.

Rob Benedict confirmed that Chuck is God back in 2011 at a convention. He even said that Kripke and other writers/producers asked him how it felt to play God.

A phenomenon? A little exaggerated don't you think? If they're on multiple shows, they must be decent actors or least have some cult type following.

I think this might be why. Thanks!

It was on the nose but yes it was very unique. It reminded me of when the x files was one of the best shows on tv

^you get it.

Other dude doesn’t

A man crying about a chicken and a baby? I thought this was a comedy show.

Elizabeth Banks played a long time girlfriend of a main character who has a surprise pregnancy on both Scrubs and 30 Rock

Eternals caught a stray outta no where lmao, not wrong in the slightest tho

Nothing to do with him liking LotR. It's about Amazon's capacity to eat losses in the short term to drive long-term growth.

We are some time off from an AI writing a compelling, coherent story.

But we are not nearly as far off from that as most people think. These AI's are improving at a genuinely alarming rate, and they will be able to do things very, very soon that they are right now incredibly incompetent at.