Panic?

The Futon Critic has posted some numbers for the second eps of American Bible Challenge and Beat the Chefs, which naturally show drops from the debuts. And just as naturally, a clueless poster on the GSN board pushes the panic button. I giggle at the post...

The original post is downright hilarious, though unintentionally. 949K total viewers "only" makes the second ep of American Bible Challenge the third most-watched show in GSN history, after the Bible debut and the Larsen documentary. Time to press the panic button, no doubt, he said sarcastically.

And old-skewing? Har-de-har-har. GSN usually gets somewhere around zero 18-49 viewers. The network will gladly take 176K of them. GSN has always skewed older than Everest. Once upon a time, High Stakes Poker topped the network with a little over 100K 18-49 viewers.

Beat the Chefs may suffer by comparison to Bible, and it certainly can't withstand all the reruns. I don't know that it's destined for cancellation, though. The cook-off is hardly a Late Night Liars disaster. 357K total viewers is very respectable by GSN's usual standards. But a cooking show was always going to be a tough sell to GSN's audience.

Couldn't find any numbers for the Pyramid sneak peek. May have to wait for Douglas Pucci's usual weekly list.