Saturday, March 31, 2012

GSN ratings chatter

It's a lazy Saturday morning, so I'll just crosspost some crosstalk from the GSN Internet board. The gang and I chat about Baggage, Dancing With the Stars, and other profundities...

Other poster: Wednesday Baggage - 194K (Harvey Feud, anyone?)

To give Jerry a bit of credit, the Wednesday and Thursday first-runs averaged 259K. A long way from the 500K and 600K glory days, though.

Another poster: 259K is still poor for new episodes of anything (except Dancing With the Stars).

There are no new episodes of DWTS on GSN. The new eps on ABC do a lot better than 259K. Like 18 million or so (wink). If GSN could get the truly new episodes of Dancing With the Stars instead of ABC, this network's problems would be a lot more manageable.

Yet another poster: And the ambient temperature of Hell would decrease to -159.86° Fahrenheit. Do you really think that GSN would be willing to fork over the heavy license fees that would be required to air a first run episode [of Dancing With the Stars]?

Oh jeeze, that comment was what's known as humor. That's why I deadpanned the bit about the network's problems being a "lot more manageable" if truly first-run DWTS ever showed up on GSN. Of course, that's not gonna happen in anything approaching the present universe.

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