| The Following Last Season | Post-Championship Game Shows |
| 3.2 (premiere, 1/21/13) 2.63 (average) 2.7 (finale, 4/29/13) | 3.5 (Hawaii Five-0, 1/20/13, game 16.8) 7.9 (American Idol, 1/22/12, game 21.4) 5.6 (Hawaii Five-0, 1/23/11, game 19.7) 4.6 (The Mentalist, 1/18/09, game 14.7) 4.7 (Without a Trace, 1/21/07, game 17.6) 9.2 (Numb3rs preview, 1/23/05, game 17.6) |
The lead-in game is between Seattle and San Francisco. It probably features the two best NFC teams, and it's projected to be pretty close, but the fact that it's two West Coast teams may damage the casual tune-in where most of the population lies.
I think this outrates last year's Hawaii Five-0 because Fox is much more invested in this show from a promotional standpoint than CBS was with Five-0 at this time last year. Last year's Five-0 was pretty much just another episode in the middle of the season and was promoted as such. Fox is advertising this second season premiere more aggressively. However, The Following's subject matter may not be the best fit with the family viewing event.
Over/Under: 4.15.
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Under. I'm just not seeing higher than a 4.0 for a serial that is no longer very buzzy. 3.8 and it holds okay to a 3.0 for the second episode.
Over, only because everything but Hawaii five-0 managed it so why not the following
Tough one this. Could be *way* over, but I'm fancying a possible blowout - it happened in the primetime 49ers @ Seahawks game in the regular season, and the crowd won't be any louder (nor Kaepernick any better at clock management).
Between that, the factors you mention (West Coast game, mature content) and the serialised nature, I'm gambling on Under.
Under.
Over
Over.
I think season premiere would get high 2s if it aired in regular timeslot. If I'm right, huge lead-in should boost it over 4. Not by much, I see it somewhere in 4.1 to 4.4 range. On 4.25 line I'd have to flip coin, on 4.15 I must say over, with moderate confidence though.
I'd say Over. All of them minus H-50 all did above 4.15, and if it's a big game (as in, both sides have a feud or rivalry; dunno, don't watch sports.) I see big numbers.
I doubt ABC would do that, what with how successful Shark Tank has done. It's been one of their most successful anchors in a long time. Well, unless ABC moves it to Thurs 8 a la CSI, and Fridays could be given for multi-cam and syndication seasons. It seems likely that Suburgatory could go in the Fridays slot if it gets renewed though, and given deathslots, who knows what will happen next year?
They're both divisional rivals, so it's definitely a big matchup. However, it's an all-West Coast one, which offsets that in terms of the general audience given that the population still skews eastward.
I'd say "expect some big adjustments in finals" and then I remembered that FOX will almost certainly order time zone adjusted fast nationals...
Unfortunately I don't follow American Football, and am not quite sure of the impact this game will have. I'll go UNDER, just because I haven't heard many people talking about The Following since its highly popular premiere.
I feel compelled to go Over on this one.
I don't know anything about sports. But people like Kevin Bacon, the ads are well done (even though the show is terrible), second season premieres of serials well-rated in their first seasons tend to do well, its lead in will likely be at least eight times as large as the season premiere, all result in me saying Over.
Over at a 4.4. I think that the game will be close, helping The Following.
5.5
OVER
The sad part is that ABC is such a state in that "death slot," they could put a rerun there and it would likely outrate Once...Wonderland. Heck, a Boxing Day repeat managed a 1.3, and O...W hasn't gotten that since its premiere!
Over
Over, 4.3. This one's tough to predict. The game may just be big enough lift this not-so-buzzy series. The second episode will probably see a 2.8.
The West Coast teams thing doesn't bother me; it's the post-game wrap-up talking heads that may start encouraging tune-out. But, Fox has been aggressive in pushing the show. They've had a good track record with debuting dramas lately. And because of the football game there's no major competition on any channel tonight.
Over.
I hate these kind of questions. They always end up being more about the lead-in than the actual show. Over at 4.5.
. The Mentalist left with a good cliffhanger last week, and I gotta wait another week just because of the Brady vs. Manning post-game undercard??? @#$@#%%@$#@$@#
It's impressive how much Dateline helps Grimm.
Actually, it's more like eight weeks - The Mentalist is on hiatus until March 9th.
That was one very healthy Friday with 9 broadcast shows at 1.4 or better ratings. With Discovery's Gold Rush it's round 10 shows at 1.4+.
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