Sunday, September 23, 2012

Game shows do numbers

To nobody's surprise American Bible Challenge continues to romp and stomp in the ratings by GSN standards, with 915K viewers for the fifth episode.

But it turns out that GSN has found a more compatible lead-out to the show than the luckless Beat the Chefs. The network's Pyramid remake performed quite well last Thursday following the Bible quizzer. The news generated some comment on the GSN Internet board, and naturally I couldn't resist joining in...

Other poster: Not sure if the 545K is the average for the whole hour or just 9 PM.

It was just the 9:00PM run. The numbers are from Travis Yanan through Futon Critic. Note that both American Bible Challenge and Pyramid skew old, getting relatively few 18-49 viewers. So what else is new about traditional game shows? But the 151K 18-49 viewers for the Bible quizzer are great by GSN's historical standards. The show gets so many viewers compared to normal GSN fare that the demos can't help but look pretty good by the network's usual standards.

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