Ratings Drop this season

[Miss Golden]

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/gofuton.cgi?action=newswire&id=6756

Hope and Faith has lost more viewers than any other returning series in the same time slot. This can not be good for long term possibilities.

[blaze]

It's doing quite well thank you very much. Sorry!

This was the news and ratings from this past week.
"Hope & Faith" (9:00-9:30 p.m.)
Building 26% on its lead, "Hope & Faith" won its half-hour among
Adults 18-49 (2.9/8). The show also took first place in the time
period among Adults 18-34 (2.2/8) and Teens 12-17 (2.3/9). In
fact, "Hope & Faith" stood as the No. 1 TV broadcast of the evening among Teens.

* "Hope & Faith" produced its largest audience in the half-hour in
more than 9 months (8.2 million) and delivered its top Adult 18-49
rating in the slot since April - since 2/6/04 and 4/30/04,
respectively.

[db108108]

H&F is not doing that well. Along with the rest of the TGIF line-up, ratings have taken a big nosedive from last season. It's stabilized in recent weeks at around 8mil viewers, which will probably get it a renewal, if these levels hold.

Up to last week, it was drawing an average of 7.1mil viewers in 69th place, down 26% from last season. In adults, it ranks 66th with a 2.6 rating, down 27%. It could be worse. 8 simple Rules is down 70% in both categories.

[blaze]

Actually out of all of ABC's comedies, it is one of the only two that has been ordered additional episodes. It also is second in demos.

[db108108]

Basically because it is ABC's highest rated Friday sitcom. But don't fool yourself into thinking it's doing well.

[factsoflife]

Actually J&F is doing well because it always builds on its lead-in, and sometimes that more important than being the #1 show... and if its doing good in Teens then its fine, networks look to the teen market for a lot its the most coveted demo.