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How are the ratings?

posted 13 years ago by old-dutch
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Anyone know how this show has been doing during its summer run? Just wondering if this thing has the legs for another season.

I can't imagine this show ever cracking a fall or mid season line-up, but it's probably done marginally well enough that it wouldn't totally surprise me to see a 2nd summer season. By keeping it all in one country that has to keep production costs down. Might be a cheap show for CBS to buy.

"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows him" ...Obi Wan Kenobi

[–] tody711 13 years ago

I just got my new TV Guide for the next two weeks and this show (thankfully) is not listed on any day... Hopefully they gave the Gypsies the money and cancelled the rest of it, most boring show of the summer... Pleaseeeeee don't put it on again. Leave 'race' games to Amazing Race....THey know how to do them right.

[–] jeff_b-1 13 years ago

The last episode is in 2 days. That's why it's not in next weeks TV Guide.

[–] tody711 13 years ago

Nope, according to the web "Expedition Impossible has the worst ratings average of any reality competition series currently on the network. It had a solid start but the overall decline has been serious. "

The gypsies killed it. It was no fun to keep seeing the same team win over and over. Blame it on them. It is not scheduled on my TV for the next 3 weeks (YEA)... A boring piece of .... Was a good idea but if you have a one team domination it sucks big time..

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[–] old-dutch 13 years ago

Well, CBS did air a preview at the end of last weeks episode and it was for the finale. I can't believe that they'd kill a show at this point, with one episode left, that would make absolutely no sense, no matter how bad its done.

I don't think the Gypsies have killed it. When half the show is simply extreme hiking, that's what killed it, that and having too big a difference in the stamina of teams. It was pretty obvious which teams would be competetive and which wouldn't. They've had some mental challenges, with inconsistent difficulty. I think the premise is there for a good show, but poor production set up has really hurt it.

The last couple episodes have actually had some suspense, granted it's taken a man with a broken leg with a blind teammate to make it suspenseful.

"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows him" ...Obi Wan Kenobi

[–] evanistheman 13 years ago

Its on my cable companies tv guide for tomorrow so I think were fine its defintely airing tomorrow.

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[–] old-dutch 13 years ago

Double checked my dvr guide when I got home last night and it was still set up to tape for tonight, so I think without doubt the show will air as scheduled.

"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows him" ...Obi Wan Kenobi

[–] bing-57 13 years ago

> They've had some mental challenges, with inconsistent difficulty.

And for most of the mental challenges, most of the time you could simply cheat off of the other teams, either for the actual answer or for a really big clue.

Like in the first episode when they had to find water. The first team got there and spent their whole 20-minute lead digging for water. The straggling teams just got water from the hole that had already been dug.

Or when they had to match animal symbols and found four variants. The later teams were tipped off about the twist. And the word letter road sign; one team figured out the answer and all the other teams heard it.

Why bother having challenges like that when only one team ever has to solve it?

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[–] vghb95a 13 years ago

And for most of the mental challenges, most of the time you could simply cheat off of the other teams, either for the actual answer or for a really big clue.

Both EI and TAR shared this problem. Remember the Lichtenstein incident with the cowboys? Answer sharing issue has been an on going problem on the The Amazing Race for awhile now.

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[–] old-dutch 13 years ago

> Answer sharing issue has been an on going problem on the The Amazing Race for awhile now.

Right. And this show is created by the same producers and so they should have been able to fix that little problem right off the bat. It wouldn't be that difficult to make different puzzles for different teams and then the puzzles are determined by whichever scroll you grab.

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Actually this show isn't produced by the same team as Race. Mark Burnett produces Expedition Impossible, as well as Survivor. Bertram Van Munster produces Race.

I would argue there is a difference in the cheating/sharing between the two shows. In Expedition Impossible it was prevalent for teams to cheat/copy another team without that teams consent. For the most part in Race, when a team shares info, it's done voluntarily to the detriment of another team. But for the most part it takes an act from one team to help another. With EI it's simply watch what another team does and copy or follow. Much worse in my opinion. I don't like either scenario, but Expedition Everest is much much worse.

"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows him" ...Obi Wan Kenobi

[–] bing-57 13 years ago

> With EI it's simply watch what another team does and copy or follow. Much worse in my opinion.

Probably the most blatant example of that was the "compass" challenge where they used different angles to find the right place to dig a hole. Subsequent teams could have just looked at a previous team's hole and guessed where their own hole should be. There was even a strip of chewed-up dirt where all the clues were obviously buried.

The show just took the idea of AR and stripped away all the interesting parts. If by some miracle it is renewed, I won't be watching next season.

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[–] home0006 13 years ago

This show had some serious issues.

I thought the host was terrible from the get go. He was not dynamic and didn't have any star power compared to Probst or Keoghan.

It was nothing more than lets watch them walk from point a to point b. It was 9 weeks of my life just watching people walk.

When they did have challenges they were either not interesting to watch, or they cheated off one another. When they open the show the first week and only one person had to dig the hole to get the water, and everyone else siphoned off that watering hole it sort of set the tone for the rest of the show.

The teams were not very interesting nor did I care about them till I got down to the final 4. I liked the Gypsies, and No Limits from the start. Everyone else just sort of was blah. The girl from Fab 3 was cute, but their constant whining, arguing, crying, and complaining turned me off to them. It was almost cruel how they ignored the woman on the cops team. I didn't even know there was a woman on the cops team because they never had her give any one on one time with the cameras until about 2 episodes before they were eliminated.

It was originally advertised as sort of a cross between Survivor, and Amazing Race, and sort of lacked the interesting elements of both of them.

The puny prize. $150,000 and a couple of SUV's in today's reality show world is nothing. I mean it's a great experience to be out there, and that's almost how you had to run the race was as an experience. $50,000 before taxes/person isn't life changing money where you want to root for someone whose had a hard luck life.

No reward for being first. After each leg, they got no prize for coming in 1st place for that leg like on the Amazing Race. Not only that, there was time advantage for coming in first because at most they only got a 2 minute head start behind the previous team. It really shows how dominant the Gypsies were that they were able to have the lead all but 1 leg when given a basically even starting point each show.