Ratings Decline For Flash Forward and Fringe
Written by Ian Cullen on November 10, 2009 – 9:26 am -
It looks like the party is drawing to an end for Fringe and Flash Forward, which have both shown a decrease in their viewers.
Last week was a particularly bad one for Fringe, which was a victim of the World Series and piss poor advertising and support from the Fox Network, which neglected to inform its viewers that despite the world series, they were still going to show an episode of Fringe, which has been a good fit for them until recent times.
Flash Forward can’t claim the same excuse though.
Either way both these shows are no longer flashing forward. At least not as far as the ratings are concerned. According to various reports Flash Forward has lost out on the ratings and ABC on the whole saw a 4% drop in ratings last week across the board, which doesn’t sound that much, but does a make a difference to the network in advertising revenue.
Fringe on the other hand lost a total of 23% of its audience and only managed 5 million viewers despite returning after a two week break, but as stated above Fox didn’t work to hard to promote the fact that the series has returned.
Also suffering losses in their numbers were the CWs hit show Supernatural, which lost 14% of its audience. It’s not all bad for The CW though. There new show Vampire Diaries actually showed a gain in numbers. Being pretty much the only genre show to move forward last week.
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Tags: ABC, Flash Forward, Fox Network, Fringe, Ratings
Posted in SF-TV & Movie News | 1 Comment »
By excentric on Nov 11, 2009 | Reply
I’m surprised ratings haven’t declined for every single show on tv. The stories are so disjointed due to the constant commercial breaks every few minutes, watching tv is becoming just another annoyance. If it isn’t on PBS, I’m probably going to get annoyed by the second break and turn it off. Between the incessant commercials and the unbelievably irritating popups during shows, they are driving us away.