Obviously.Originally Posted by Bean
Obviously.
You can do it, Naomi! You're...
ONLY 10 EASY STEPS AWAY FROM OSCAR!
1.) Bankrupt small, independent distributor via massive Oscar campaign. Failing that, proceed to...
2.) Cash in King Kong residual checks to pay for FYC advertisements from Kinko's.
3.) To avoid getting sent straight to VOD, attach entire film as a "trailer" to another film people actually want to see. And then...
4.) Try to do it Lahti-style and win Academy Award for Best Short Film.
5.) Avoid telling a story that everyone already knows by adding exciting details and/or gratuitous editing.
6. Carefully and patiently weather the wrath of film critics/the royal family/the tabloids/Diana-maniacs for trying to add said details. (Good luck!)
7. Find all of the boxes with "August: Osage County" screeners and slip in self-made cam bootleg from premiere screening at Lowes...the hardware store.
(Not Loews, the movie theater -- too expensive!)
8. Trick octogenarian Oscar voters into thinking that you are, in fact, a real princess. (Hey, it worked on Eva Marie Saint!)
9. On Oscar night, have camera crews come to Nicole's house, Joan Crawford-style, so you can win and keep your day job.
10. OSCAR!
Time-zone-adjusted numbers are in for Super Bowl XLVII: 108.41 million, behind the last two years but still the third most-watched program in TV history (The 34-minute blackout is not being counted).
Alas, Elementary got screwed over big time by the delay: starting at about 11:11 (The latest start ever for a post-Super Bowl program), it got 20.8 million viewers and a 7.8 A18-49 rating. That's the third-lowest viewership number since the slot became a thing in the '80s, ahead of only Alias in 2003 (17.36 million) and The John Larroquette Show in 1994 (17.71 million).
"I shall immediately after I'm done watching Homeland." - DirkDiggler on his voting priorities
Downton Abbey got 6.6 million viewers Sunday night, up 69% from last year's Super Bowl numbers.The season as a whole has been up 72% over last season (though no specific number has been given).
Related, Salon has an article about why PBS hasn't considered airing at the same time as the UK, and the reasons seem to be A) worry about going up against the network fall premieres, and from the sounds of it might be costlier to do so. Though I understand the latter, I feel like the network fall premieres are becoming less and less of a deal, to the point that any lost viewership to newer programming would be made up for by the people who have been downloading it tuning in instead. But I guess with numbers that massive for them they aren't going to worry too much.
"I shall immediately after I'm done watching Homeland." - DirkDiggler on his voting priorities
What I don't understand is how PBS (pays for/makes money from) having the rights to the show? I mean, they're not airing commercials, but with that kind of audience, they has to so much money to be made. Why doesn't one of the Big 4 just offer more money? What piece of the puzzle am I missing?
You can do it, Naomi! You're...
ONLY 10 EASY STEPS AWAY FROM OSCAR!
1.) Bankrupt small, independent distributor via massive Oscar campaign. Failing that, proceed to...
2.) Cash in King Kong residual checks to pay for FYC advertisements from Kinko's.
3.) To avoid getting sent straight to VOD, attach entire film as a "trailer" to another film people actually want to see. And then...
4.) Try to do it Lahti-style and win Academy Award for Best Short Film.
5.) Avoid telling a story that everyone already knows by adding exciting details and/or gratuitous editing.
6. Carefully and patiently weather the wrath of film critics/the royal family/the tabloids/Diana-maniacs for trying to add said details. (Good luck!)
7. Find all of the boxes with "August: Osage County" screeners and slip in self-made cam bootleg from premiere screening at Lowes...the hardware store.
(Not Loews, the movie theater -- too expensive!)
8. Trick octogenarian Oscar voters into thinking that you are, in fact, a real princess. (Hey, it worked on Eva Marie Saint!)
9. On Oscar night, have camera crews come to Nicole's house, Joan Crawford-style, so you can win and keep your day job.
10. OSCAR!
HIMYM went up in ratings last night, 8% with a 4.0 in the demo, while most of the other CBS shows dropped some percentage.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/02/05/ho...r-season-high/
Will Oscar have Riva Fever?
Downton would almost certainly not be profitable on a major network, because it has so few episodes. PBS pays for all of its programs through corporate sponsorship and the support of viewers like you. The money it gets from the government is almost entirely used to prop up rural stations' infrastructure.
HS
Smash debuted with a series low 1.1 in the 18-49 demo and just 4.47 million viewers. It was down 39% from its first season finale.
Woof.
Ouch.
NBC really is nothing else but The Voice. I guess they should air repeats of it instead of scripted drama?
Whoa.
Re-edit and make a 6-ep miniseries?
I'm surprised, actually. I wasn't expecting it to be huge or anything, but there did seem to be at least a heightened awareness and a sense that people might give it another shot.
Yeah but at least for the first season it was on a Monday with less competition and had a big lead in. Putting up against even a failing AI, plus MF...all searching for the same demo?
Destined to fail. Which should have been the name of the musical in the show.
Smash was still being treated like it would have some kind of respectable viewership but that didn't happen. All the promo stuff about how horrible it was nobody liked it and everything was changed was good for the show. Even if you make a lot of changes to a bad show you may drive away the people who liked the bad show.
Definitely.
Poor Debra Messing.
And suddenly Parenthood looks like a hit!
"It's better to over analyse than not analyse at all." NM. 2000.
Jesus, I'm flabbergasted. A 1.1? Like, that's nearing CW territory. How could it debut that poorly after all the promotion?
Elena
Well, a big part of it was because it was 9-11. I imagine its ratings will go up next week when it's just 10-11.
Didn't, like, 11.1 use to be a bad rating for NBC standards ten years ago?
Last night, 'The Taste' had more viewers than 'Smash.' The same can be said for 'Betty White's 2nd Annual 90th Birthday Special.'
'The Bachelor' more than doubled it in the demo.
'NCIS' had more than 4x as many viewers.
Wait, now I'm confused. It wasn't up against either of those things.
Oh shit, today is Wednesday.
LMFAO it's fuuuuucked.
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