Ratings decline for Ep 3
https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/watchmen-season-one-ratings/
Still not that bad -- but not a hit.
Too bad some gave up on it. Best episode yet.
shareDespite the falling ratings of TWD as well, it's still hard to gain traction against them.
I suspect there's a lot of audience overlap there.
I generally don't watch a show during the live premiere of the episode. Who does that anymore?
shareIt's changing but not as quickly as some might assert.
If you're eager to watch something, you do it as soon as it's available. I watch live if I'm able.
They have adjusted ratings for delayed viewing but I haven't looked them up yet.
I don't know, life is too interesting to just sit around and wait for the live episode to air. I don't remember the last time I actually did that.
shareeh, it's not about sitting around and waiting as much as appointment tv. If you show up when it airs, that says something about the show. If you decide to watch Watchmen live but catch up with TWD later, that says something about both shows. It counts. And it counts towards whether a show is renewed or not. Think of it like a sporting event.
shareI don't care for sports or appointment TV. I like the convenience of watching when I want.
shareIf you show up when it airs, that says something about the show.
I strongly disagree.
Who watches anything when it's on anymore, this isn't the 80's...
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Triggered? I think you're exaggerating when you bring up the 80's.
Sunday primetime is peak tv time. That's why those shows air then rather than picking some day/night out of a hat as though it doesn't matter. Live still counts.
Oh, well, things change.
The only thing those ratings affect for me is whether the channel would continue the show because of them, but I think that metric has largely outlived its usefulness.
I also have a life, I am not necessarily at home when any given show airs, and even if I am, I may be busy with work and other stuff. Being so eager to watch a show the moment it airs as to drop everything else is not a mindset I can relate to.
You can't relate. Fine. Millions of others disagree. Sunday night is peak tv night.
shareAnd millions agree with me and exatera. It is no longer necessary to schedule our lives around television programs.
shareGeez. No one is saying you should. But you're pretending that all the ratings driving "can't wait!" fans are extinct or irrelevant to the buzz and renewal of a show. It matters. It's not a coincidence that all these cable dramas are scheduled on Sunday nights. They didn't kick off Watchmen at 3am on a Tues -- b/c no one really cares when it's on --b/c they'll watch whenever they want anyway. That simply isn't true. They're always stacked in those same two hours on Sundays b/c that's when people settle in to watch their favorites or promising hopefuls. Every review and recap will be posted within hours of the first airing rather than any ole time during the week b/c no one watches the first airing any longer. "Did you see _____ last night??" exists on Mondays. That baseline of ratings is what is followed as soon as it's available. The concept is alive and well and hardly irrelevant as indicator of a show's popularity. They can wait just like you -- but they don't want to. "Necessary" or not has nothing to do with their zeal. The more of them you have, the better for the show's future.
shareYour absolutely right. Sunday night is about the only true prime time for TV. That’s also why pro football games air on Sunday. Imagine NBC trying to market Thursday night as “Must See TV” today. They’d be laughed off the planet. To the extent that real-time televiewing still lives, it lives on Sunday. I record Ray Donovan, Westworld, Sweetbitter, Big Little Lies and so on, but I watch them the same night that I record them.
I wish His Dark Materials aired on Sunday. Sunday is the prestige night.
His Dark Materials did well in the US for Monday. And it killed in the UK. Its 2nd season is already in the can.
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