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@RumplesGirl wrote:
I often wonder if ABC hires people to go through forums like ours and see what fans are saying. If they do:
ABC: listen to what we’ve been saying in the above!!! We love this show to pieces and we want it to be around for a long time.Exactly! Later today, I’m going to tweet a link to this to Adam Horowitz and Ed Kitsis. If they aren’t reading this, then they need to.
[adrotate group="5"]@Sarah_TN wrote:
@steliokontos1 wrote:
That’s the thing the ABC lineup is in bad shape it’s not like the show is putting out a bad product all things considered Once is still the best thing ABC has going for them
This is true, but ABC competes with other networks, and isn’t going to want to be 3rd out of 4 in ratings. They have sponsors, and stock holders who they will want to assure that investing in ABC’s stock and projects are profitable, and are a good investment. Their sponsors will track how many people will be expected to see their advertisements, and they will track where the best places are to buy those slots. Their stock holders will be interested in how ABC invests it’s resources, and how those investments are returned. ABC is by no means in trouble, but their exectives are smart people and they aren’t going to want to make any decisions that could get them there. If Once is the best thing ABC has going for them, then that is why I fear for Once Upon A Time after next season if the ratings don’t get any better. I believe with 100% of my confidence though, that those ratings can get better, and that Once Upon A Time can be the main topic of conversation at every watercooler in America every Monday morning.
That”a why I mean, Once is a good product for ABC the need to fix the way it’s scheduled and how it’s marketed to the casual audience. With Once you have to tune in every week or you lose it, then most people just wait till the end of the season to see every episode in succession, or the start watching it more online or on the DVR. With Once they’d be better off having one long hiatus at winter break and not all these mini hiatuses we have been seeing.
Not good for OUAT… WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING
ABC
7pm – America’s Funniest Home Videos: 1.6 in the demo (+7% change) with 6.53 million.
8pm – Once Upon a Time: 2.1 in the demo (-13% change) with 7.22 million.9pm – Red Widow: (series premiere) 1.4 in the demo with 6.92 million.
COMPETITION …..
CBS
7pm – 60 Minutes: 1.7 in the demo (+31% change) with 11.95 million.
8pm – The Amazing Race: 2.4 in the demo (+26% change) with 9.12 million.
9pm – The Good Wife: 1.6 in the demo (+23% change) with 8.94 million.
10pm – The Mentalist: 1.5 in the demo (-6% change) with 9.10 million.FOX
7pm – The Simpsons: (rerun) 1.3 in the demo with 3.11 million.
7:30pm – The Cleveland Show: 1.5 in the demo (+36% change) with 3.27 million.
8pm – The Simpsons: 2.3 in the demo (+15% change) with 4.76 million.
8:30pm – The Cleveland Show: 1.9 in the demo (+27% change) with 3.80 million.
9pm – Family Guy: (rerun) 1.9 in the demo with 4.11 million.
8:30pm – Bob’s Burgers: 1.7 in the demo (-6% change) with 3.64 million.NBC
7pm – Betty White’s Off Their Rockers: (rerun) 0.8 in the demo with 3.56 million.
7:30pm – Betty White’s Off Their Rockers: (rerun) 0.8 in the demo with 3.32 million.
8pm – Dateline: 1.3 in the demo (+30% change) with 6.09 million.
9pm – Celebrity Apprentice: (season debut) 1.6 in the demo with 5.08 million..
.On ABC
America’s Funniest Home Videos garnered a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating up 7 percent from a 1.5 on February 17.Once Upon A Time scored a series low 2.1 among adults 18-49 down 13 percent from a 2.4 on February 17.
The two hour series premiere of Red Widow earned a 1.4 adults 18-49 rating down 36 percent from a 2.2 for the series premiere of GCB on March 5, 2012
Down 33 percent from a 2.1 for the series premiere of 666 Park Avenue on September 30. Your predictions were too optimistic
LOW RATINGS FOR OUaT….. VS AMAZING RACE… What was last years numbers? Anyone know?
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.Last night was episode 15. A year ago, episode 15, “Read Handed” brought in 9.29 million views which was down from “Dreamy’s” 10.67
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Of course, it goes up about another 2 million with DVR/next day views. So really for last night the episode will probably be about 9.0 million?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"@RumplesGirl wrote:
Of course, it goes up about another 2 million with DVR/next day views. So really for last night the episode will probably be about 9.0 million?
Probably with DVR it’ll land at about 9.3 and we’ll get another .1 or .2 boost hopefully, I just don’t know these past two episodes have been great I just think the choppy way they’ve scheduled the show has been hurting the ratings.
Geez, if Once can’t recover to higher numbers for the rest of the Season, I don’t have high hopes for anything past a third Season. While everyone is blaming the “constant breaks” for Once’s ratings, you have to realize that Season 1 had the same breaks last winter (one for the Super Bowl, one for the Oscar), and yet it actually continued to do really well. There was also no special competition (award show or Football) to blame for these ratings. I’m afraid people are actually losing interest, particularly a good portion of the Nielsen viewers (the very sample of viewers who determine how the ratings turn out). I’ve heard several people complain about this Season’s pacing and writing, and these diminishing ratings seem to correlate with those complaints.
All we can do now is hope by some fluke Once’s ratings go back up for the last episodes of the Season. Especially the Season finale, because if that can’t get higher ratings, that would be pathetic. I would advise that ABC and the producers rethink how to handle Season 3. A stronger sense of direction is definitely in need, and perhaps even a timeslot change could help. Season 3 will have a clean slate to start with, so if it starts out strong and continues to do so, Once can be saved from this declining slope.
LAST YEAR … OUAT / ABC did several things to bring in the viewers….. Marathon sessions so people / family could get hooked…. release of a DVD that allowed people who missed the start of the season to get caught up AND interested in show.
If there is an Easter break they should have a marathon session… and maybe release the first 10-12 episodes in DVD format with a discount coupon to use toward DVDs of the last half of the season.
The problem with OUaT it is really easy to loose track of the show and archs if you miss a show. I can usually only watch on TV as I have limited bandwidth as does a good 50% of the households in the USA.
It also might be nice if ABC would run reruns of OUaT during the summer. That would really hook more viewers into wanting to see Season 3.
Anybody have any other ideas.Nonnie
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,I agree with everything Nonnie said! ABC seems to take on faith that people were going to come every week b/c parts of the fan base is very eager over OUaT (like all of us!). But they need to really sell it to the casual viewer cause that’s where we’re losing.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
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