Sunday, March 3, 2013

The Question, Sunday 3/3/13: Which Two-Hour Premiere Gets Fired?


It's been an uneventful winter for Sunday broadcast series. But with NFL and awards seasons over, the broadcasters are back in force with a couple two-hour premieres tonight. ABC has new midseason drama Red Widow leading out of Once Upon a Time while NBC trots out another edition of Celebrity Apprentice. Which two-hour premiere gets fired? That's The Question for Sunday, March 3, 2013.

Celebrity Apprentice Last Season ABC Drama Premieres
2.6 (premiere, 2/19/12)
2.02 (average)
2.2 (finale, 5/20/12)
2.2 (Last Resort, 9/27/12, local lead-in)
2.1 (666 Park Ave, 9/30/12, 3.0 Revenge)
2.8 (Nashville, 10/10/12, 4.9 Modern Fam)
1.4 (Zero Hour, 2/14/13, local)

I predicted Apprentice would be just over a tick stronger than Red Widow, so you might expect me to be even more favorable than that for Red Widow tonight since it's a series premiere. However, Celebrity Apprentice also behaved rather like a new series last spring, with the premiere way out ahead of every other point. And while I think Red Widow could be a bubble show, I acknowledge that there is more downside than upside to that prediction. It is more likely to bomb out than hugely overachieve. So I'm trying to account for that possibility as well.

Spread: Celebrity Apprentice beats Red Widow by 0.25 points.

(Reply with "Celebrity Apprentice" if you think Celebrity Apprentice BEATS Red Widow by 0.3 points or more. Reply with "Red Widow" if you think Celebrity Apprentice BEATS Red Widow by 0.2 points or fewer or Red Widow TIES or BEATS Celebrity Apprentice. The result will be based on finals rounded to one decimal point.)

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11 comments:

Spot said...

Red Widow. I think Celeb Apprentice is going to collapse w/ the rest of the reality this year, and RW should get at least a half-decent (read: better than Zero Hour) start out of all of this.

Spot said...

Celebrity Apprentice

Spot said...

Red Widow. People are done with Trump.

Spot said...

Celebrity Apprentice

Spot said...

Finding this one to be a bit of a coin-flip but my own hopes are swaying this towards..Red Widow.

Spot said...

Red Widow.

Spot said...

Celebrity Apprentice (2.2 to 1.8)

Spot said...

Celebrity Apprentice, unfortunately.

Spot said...

Red Widow

Spot said...

I think I'll go with Red Widow. They tie at 2.0.

Spot said...

Red Widow, if only because it's difficult right now for me to picture an NBC show breaking through the low-rated morass that is its entertainment schedule.

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