Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Clearing the Room

On Sunday I listed the series that draw typically crowds into your living room. But what about the other extreme? What about those series that, if you watch, you can watch without family interruption--because you are more likely to be the only person in the room?

During the regular season (September 20, 2004 through May 29, 2005), 14 series on primetime network TV averaged less than 1.30 viewers per household:

1.23 viewers per watching household: "Summerland"
1.24: "The Benefactor"
1.25: "The Mountain"
1.26: "The Starlet" & "PrimeTime Live"
1.27: "BMOC: Big Man on Campus"
1.28: "Extreme Makeover" & "The Bachelor"
1.29: "Will & Grace" & "America's Next Top Model" & "Jake in Progress" & "SI Swimsuit Model Search" & "Dateline NBC" & "20/20"

In the JICYWW (Just in case you were wondering) file. Four airings drew no more than 1.10 viewers per household:

1.05: "The Mountain" (9/29/2004 @ 9PM)
1.08: "Summerland" (2/6/2005 @ 8PM) & "One Tree Hill" (9/30/2004 @ 9PM)
1.09: "The Starlet" (3/10/2005 @ 8PM)

That's almost solitary confinement!

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