Being wrong

I thought Dancing With the Stars would do a lot better on GSN than it did. The network is now cutting the show back a lot after underwhelming numbers.

As you might expect, a few of my buddies on the GSN board are letting me know how wrong I was. We all gotta take our lumps now and then...

Other poster: Yeah I went back to the original DWTS thread, and you were WAY wrong. You predicted the show would easily get about 500,000 viewers, and would easily become GSN's most watched show. You also told us all we didn't know what we were talking about, and that we didn't depict GSN's real audience. How does it feel to be wrong?

In response, I originally posted something snarky but eventually toned it down: "Won't be the last time I'm wrong. Nobody's infallible." Another of my good friends joined in: "I tried to tell you it was going to be a bomb." I just ate the humblest pie again: "You were right and I was wrong."

What can I say? Dancing looked like the perfect show for GSN's old-skewing, female-skewing audience. I blew the call. And GSN apparently blew some serious money, by the network's thrifty standards.

UPDATE: GSN's schedule changes more often than a fashion model at a real uptempo show. Now Dancing is back on Friday with a seven-hour marathon, at least for February 17. Guess they figured the demos would be better than 100K Pyramid's. But stay tuned. You never know about the GSN schedule.

And now Dancing is back on Friday February 24 and March 2, as you can see in the pdfs in the sidebar. They'll love this on the GSN Internet board.