Zap2It offers a frothy chat with Jill Wagner. Seems that nobody knows her except as the Mercury girl or the Wipeout girl.Of course, she wasn't the Wipeout girl for a while. The producers tried Vanessa Lachey for a season. That didn't help the numbers, so Jill is back. Except she isn't helping the numbers much, either. The latest installment of the big balls epic on Thursday May 16 earned the lowest 18-49 rating ever for the series. A paltry 1.0 rating with 3.8 million total viewers.
Yes, the show ran against tough competition: season finales for Big Bang Theory and American Idol. But the ratings have generally been dismal throughout Wipeout's new season. The show is getting tired, and switching Wipeout girls doesn't look like the answer.
The truly dismal reality may be that no answer exists. Nothing lasts forever (he said sententiously) and the show has enjoyed a nice long run. You can only bounce so many contestants off so many obstacles before viewers look elsewhere.
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