ION Television Upfront: Fall 2011 -- Monk, Psych, Flashpoint, George Lopez

[pete5125]

Originally Posted by mets82

I never knew that ION beat MyNetwork and CW. I never saw any information about that. I guess whatever works, ION should continue do it. I will say do you think putting on these shows like NCIS, Ghost Whisperer, Criminal Minds, etc. all the time will over expose the shows?

These are the most resent ratings, for July 12, 2011

In prime time, the reliability of CBS' reruns and the return of "Big Brother" allowed the network to beat NBC and "America's Got Talent" for the weekly ratings crown. CBS averaged 5.9 million viewers in prime time (3.8 rating, 7 share), compared to NBC's 5.8 million (3.5, 6).

In the annual fireworks pop-off, NBC's coverage of the Macy's fireworks display in New York was seen by 8.71 million viewers. CBS' showing of the Boston Pops fireworks had 6.65 million viewers.

ABC was third for the week with an average of 5.2 million viewers (3.2, 6), Fox had 3.5 million (2.1, 7), [U]ION Television had 1.2 million (0.8, 1)[/U] and the CW had 720,000 (0.5, 1).

Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with a prime-time average of 3.1 million viewers (1.6 rating, 3 share), Telemundo had 1 million (0.6, 1), TeleFutura had 700,000 (0.4, 1), Azteca had 200,000 and Estrella 190,000 (both 0.1, 0).


As you can see in primetime reruns of Criminal Minds do better than CW and I assume MyNet but it wasn't listed, they are never going to be #1 but some weeks they are #5, NCIS use to help them hit that, and reruns of HOUSE or if they could get Law and Order or CSI, would help alot

[Buster2]

I remember when tv used to be fun to watch. Every thirty minutes or an hour there would be a different show to watch-not this crap where you have all day marathons on the same show.

[Pavan]

In case you missed it, George Lopez heads to ION:

http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2011/0...edule-now.html

[Tubehead]

thats lot of george lopez even nick at nite don't show that much. as much as i like gergeo lopez. i reather see classci showcome back on i usual watch it on nick at nite sometime if theri nothing on. iwould get ride of padi pragmings bring back these calssc shows:
mammss family
amen
perfect strangers
alice
haning with mr cooper
thewonder years
quantam leap
familyties


i would show these show if i was on ionteleion
smallvile SINCE THE SHOW ENDED AND their showing newer show why not air Rreuins
whipout alreadyreurins for tru tv
America got Talnet Reurins
shark tank
hawie five o
the menslist i think this wouldfit pefrfect for io n teltvison it come on tnt sometimes
nsic lose angles
American Gladiators REMAKE WITH HULK HOGAN

other shows;
MY OWN WORST EMENY
BONCO WOMEN REMAKE
DAY BREAK
Early ediiton
monlight



newer shows:
PAWNSTARS
AMERICA PICKERS
bily the Exterminator
storge wars
hordoers

for comdeys:
savedb y the bell
calfrion dreams
boy meets wrold
familymatters
step bystep

[Tubehead]

sorry double post

[Hazel Anyday]

Lopez, Criminal Minds? Extremely bad news, then ION hasn't been worth watching for years now. I like that they've put Psych on though, Monk too, but I have the Monk DVDs so I don't watch ION's showings, but I do like the Psych airings, these are shows I've never seen. The rest of ION is terrible as always. I also don't like at all their bad programming style of showing multiple multiple showings of a single program all at one time in giant never ending blocks. Who in their right mind would want to watch any TV show, one right after another for hours and hours, you'd have to be cracked. It's good for recording, to get them all recorded in a short period of time, but I'd never dream of actually sitting in front of the TV and watching the same show again and again. Glad my DVD recorder can stand it though.

[yankeesrj12]

Criminal Minds into Flashpoint is a great idea! Thanks for finally giving Flashpoint a solid lead in.

[pete5125]

I don't like it either, but it does seem to work, USA,Sci-Fi and most of the USA nets do it, mainly if you are waching Criminal Minds then your sure to like the lead out Criminal Minds, my only problem is the way ION does it is that if it is a 2 parter then they don't have one lead into the other...

If Lopez does well then maybe they will go after My Wife and Kids, King of Queens, etc...sitcoms are tough though since the popular ones are expensive, sitcoms typicaly can rerun longer and are more profitable, but their hasn't been a hot sitcom outside of 2 and half men in the last 5 years, outside of Lopez and Wife and Kids

[icecream]

Can we get a blog story on the ION schedule changes?

[yankeesrj12]

If anyone is curious, here is how the season premiere of Flashpoint did for ION:
1.254 million viewers and a 0.5 demo (A18-49)

Retention from lead in (Criminal Minds encore): 82% in total viewers and 83% in the demo

[born2late]

Originally Posted by Buster2

I remember when tv used to be fun to watch. Every thirty minutes or an hour there would be a different show to watch-not this crap where you have all day marathons on the same show.

I so agree with you Buster. I don't know why they feel the need to show the same show all day long. USA should just call themselves the Law & Order channel. Whatever happened to variety?

[Tubehead]

now i heard theri going t oadd tnt show called levarge sometimee this year or next year sometime i can't standmonk or pscy ithink it boring i enjoy
The Mentalist a lot better. i try watching it it was just talking sorr y i don't like psych much i wouldn't mind if they add bones. they need to to air some comdies. howabout boy meet world saved by the bell ?how about bring back clasci likei lovel ucy the hooney mooner Gilligan's Island or my three sons?.