KSiteCraig500
Apr 17, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
I just don't get it - because The CW could have the potential to reach young people, particularly teens, in a way CBS never could... so why not exploit that?
But you look at the network, and very little of it is relevant to young people anymore. Today's teens were in 1st grade when Gilmore Girls, etc. premiered.
It's interesting that Viacom also owns MTV, which got that young market for so many years; and also The N, which has a huge following from some of their Canadian imports like Degrassi.
Scry
Apr 18, 2007 @ 9:13 pm
Updated trailer counts:
Hydro
23 times
Justice (counting since Subterranean)
38 times
Labyrinth
23 times
Crimson
19 times
Trespass
18 times
Freak
24 times
Promise
52 times
Combat
12 times
Progeny
19 times
So,
Progeny is right up there with
Crimson. 5 of those came from tonight, though. I hate that after they air a new episode of ANTM (their highest rated show), they decide to air a promo for the PDP encore that's coming on in ten seconds instead of a trailer for
Progeny. It was their last real chance to promote the episode since ANTM is their last hour of new programming before Smallville.
Sigh. The CW really is run by idiots.
CantThinkUpName
Apr 19, 2007 @ 3:40 am
I just learned Progeny is going to be pre-empted by baseball in Chicago. Stupid sports. Hope this warning finds anyone else in the Chicago area.
But yes, the CW is run by idiots.
ScrappyTheOwl
Apr 19, 2007 @ 7:56 am
Yeah, this is the second original episode in a row that Chicago's preempting Smallville and Supernatural ... couldn't they have done this while the shows were in repeats *rolls eyes*? Again, this is probably why The CW isn't putting out a lot of promotion for this episode -- the ratings dipped substantially in final nationals due to the preemption last time. Wouldn't want to waste advertising dollars on an episode that (a potential) 300-500,000 people won't be able to see until Saturday (for which day, ratings do not count for The CW, of course, since it's all local programming).
Kahhhn
Apr 19, 2007 @ 8:02 am
I think that they also may just think that Smallville's core audience will find it and watch and that there is no need to waste money on this episode considering, as ScrappytheOwl just said, that they are not going to have a big market tonight as it is.
Omar G
Apr 19, 2007 @ 10:51 am
According to my DirecTV guide, it's being pre-empted in San Antonio by the game, too. Anyone else know what other markets this is happening? I'm going to have to try to catch it in Austin if it's being shown there.
Edited to add: the San Antonio/Fredericksburg CW station has no Web site that I can see. Austin's
does and says it's airing tonight.
Massena1
Apr 19, 2007 @ 11:13 am
It's being preempted in Chicago AND San Antonio?!!
Are you serious? Why in the heck didn't the CW show it last week when nothing was going on? Those are two of the largest markets in the US. They're coming back from a long hiatus. The CW has promoted it much less than Hydro and half as much as Promise and its lead-in, the last new episode Combat, was the lowest rated episode of the year. This episode needed a LOT of help from the CW, not less than usual.
It's going to be a really good episode. You can tell from the preview clips. Plus, LYNDA CARTER. The CW should have been everything to foster it.
I hope it rains. Maybe they'll cancel the games and show Progeny anyway.
Omar G
Apr 19, 2007 @ 11:16 am
I set my TiVo for that time manually just in case, but I think the reason for the preemption in San Antonio is that it's a Texas Rangers game.
Anybody know if this is happening in Dallas or Houston?
CantThinkUpName
Apr 19, 2007 @ 11:22 am
Acc. to the websites of CW33 Dallas and CW39 Houston, they are showing Smallville.
Scry
Apr 19, 2007 @ 11:49 am
The CW has promoted it much less than Hydro
Maybe they prefer Tori Spelling over Lynda Carter.
Sadly, knowing the CW, it could very well be true.
nzs
Apr 19, 2007 @ 12:15 pm
5 of those came from tonight, though.
When you say "tonight" does that mean during ANTM?
ETA: Ah, thanks,
Scry. They kinda packed it in there.
Scry
Apr 19, 2007 @ 3:32 pm
nzs, yes. Two trailers aired during ANTM and three trailers during the encore presentation of PDP.
Omar G
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:20 am
Update: The show did air in San Antonio. Stupid DirecTV listings.
Massena1
Apr 20, 2007 @ 10:59 am
As predicted the lack of promotion, the hiatus, and the bad lead-in all took its toll on the ratings. The CW really doesn't seem to know what it's doing. The Gilmore Girls also took a big hit this week. The only show that is doing well is ANTM. Everything else is lagging. I know people scoffed when I said this, but I do wonder about the network lasting beyond next year. They aren't making money even though Les Moonves promised the BoD they would in the first year so how long are they going to throw good money after bad?
Prime Time Ratings:
Thursday 4/19/07
The following results are based on the fast national ratings (Live Plus Same Day data)
-Total Viewers:
ABC: 13.44 million, CBS: 12.72, Fox: 7.20, NBC: 7.06, CW: 3.81
-Adults 18-49:
ABC: 5.2 rating/15 share, CBS: 3.6/10, NBC: 3.1/ 9, Fox: 2.5/ 7, CW: 1.6/ 4
-Ratings Breakdown:
Led by Grey’s Anatomy (which faced a repeat of CSI), ABC took top-rated honors on this third Thursday in April, with an advantage over CBS of 720,000 viewers and 44 percent among adults 18-49. NBC and Fox tied for the No. three and four spots, respectively, followed by The CW.
CBS’ Survivor: Fiji won the 8 p.m. hour, with 13.21 million viewers and a 4.4 rating/13 share among adults 18-49. But one year earlier, Survivor: Panama’s performance (on April 20, 2006), based on the final nationals, was a considerably heftier 16.26 million viewers and a 5.5/18 in the demo. Is there anything that Survivor can do to stop the bleeding? Second behind Survivor was Fox’s durable Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, with 9.70 million viewers and a 3.2/10 among adults 18-49. Comparatively, take a look at Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader versus year-ago repeat episodes of That ‘70s Show (based on the final nationals).
Fox/Thursday 8 p.m.
4/20/06 Two repeat episodes of That ‘70s Show
Viewers: avg. 4.09 million, A18-49: avg. 2.0/ 6
4/19/07 Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader
Viewers: 9.70 million, A18-49: 3.2/10
Percent Change:
Viewers: +137, A18-49: +60
ABC’s competing Ugly Betty, meanwhile, dipped to a series-low for an original, with 9.46 million viewers (#3) and a 3.0/ 9 among adults 18-49. But compared to American Inventor on the year-ago Thursday that is still a vast improvement. Take a look:
ABC/Thursday 8 p.m.
4/20/06 American Inventor
Viewers: 5.58 million, A18-49: 1.7/ 6
4/19/07 Ugly Betty
Viewers: 9.46 million, A18-49: 3.0/ 9
Percent Change:
Viewers: +70, A18-49: +76
Also in the 8 p.m. hour were NBC’s My Name is Earl (Viewers: #4, 7.15 million; A18-49: #2, 3.0/10) and a repeat of The Office (Viewers: #4, 6.26 million; A18-49: #4, 3.0/ 9), and Smallville on The CW (Viewers: #5, 4.03 million; A18-49: #5, 1.7/ 5).
ABC roared past the competition from 9-10 p.m., with Grey’s Anatomy at 20.91 million viewers and an 8.5/22 among adults 18-49. Comparably, that outdelivered an encore telecast of CBS’ CSI (Viewers: #2, 12.51 million; A18-49: #2, 3.3/ 9) by 8.40 million viewers and 158 percent among adults 18-49.
A distant third in the 9 p.m. hour were NBC comedies 30 Rock (Viewers: 5.20 million, A18-49: 2.4/ 6) and Scrubs (Viewers: 5.56 million; A18-49: 2.9/ 7), followed by a repeat of Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy on Fox (Viewers: #4, 4.70 million; A18-49: #4, 1.7/ 5), and Supernatural on The CW (Viewers: 3.58 million; A18-49: #5, 1.4/ 4).
KSiteCraig500
Apr 20, 2007 @ 11:26 am
Well, when you consider that on-air it was barely promoted, and even when it was, there was no mention made of why people should watch... is it all that surprising?
Plus the last new episode before that was "Combat." That surely may have left a bad taste in some people's mouths.
Massena1
Apr 20, 2007 @ 11:33 am
To me, I had a strong sense that the CW had just given up on "Progeny" doing well in the ratings. As if they shouldn't bother to promote it because no matter what they did, there were too many strikes against it. But what kind of attitude is that? It is complete defeatism. Plus, how much effort would it have taken to do a countdown? Show a promo right after Combat, and then show little banners "Smallville back in 2 weeks, 4 days, 2 days etc." during the hiatus the way NBC is doing for Heroes. Maybe it would have worked, maybe it wouldn't have. But, it could have hardly cost them anything.
Or how about an ad combined for all their shows returning this week and call it "April Surprises Week" and show clips from all the returning shows with "All New on the CW"?
I know they have a smaller budget than other networks, but they don't seem to be trying hard enough to promote what they already have and keeping people interested in their current products is the only way to launch new ones.
mallory54
Apr 20, 2007 @ 11:45 am
So do these low numbers show the overall SV audience doesn't care much about Chloe?
Durq
Apr 20, 2007 @ 11:52 am
Following that argument, do the low ratings for "Combat" show that fans aren't interested in Lois? I don't think so. I thought that like "Progeny", "Combat" deserved more promotion than it got. They should have generated more publicity around the interesting guest stars: wrestlers! Wonder Woman!
I don't understand why they decided to air 53 commercials for one episode and virtually ignore all the others. DeKnight, in his blog, still seems to be annoyed by the lack of promotion for "Justice". (And in hindsight, with "Promise" only achieving limp ratings, putting all the promotional eggs in one basket seems even dumber.)
gobatara
Apr 20, 2007 @ 11:59 am
Not to start but fallowing that argument do the low ratings for "Combat" show that fans aren't interested on Clark fighting?? cause I don't remember Lois being promoted at all (trailers nor Director's Cut) just in the episode stills and I think those stills weren't aired on Tv or in a media in which a considerable gorup of viewrs wre going to see them.
But ITA with those epiosdes deserved more promotion specially after the garbage of "Promise"
EllyF
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
Following that argument, do the low ratings for "Combat" show that fans aren't interested in Lois? I don't think so.
I think the low numbers reflect a couple of things. First, the hiatus and not a lot of promo. And more importantly, "Promise." It's no accident that the two lowest-rated episodes this year followed "Promise." I think TPTB made a terrible mistake in bringing Clana back from the dead and featuring it so prominently in that episode. It turned off an awful lot of loyal SV fans and caused them to revolt and turn off the show, possibly permanently. I think TPTB overestimated the number of rabid Clana fans, underestimated the amount of hatred a lot of viewers have for Clana at this point, and very badly miscalculated what the core audience wants from "Smallville." And as a results, the ratings are sagging pretty drastically.
mallory54
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
Actually, Durq, I agree. Ratings depend on a whole slew of factors. I just seem to remember claims that the ratings of Promise showed how little interest people have in Lana, and that TPTB should get that message.
KSiteCraig500
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:03 pm
Messages are often manipulated to say what people want to get across, unfortunately.
Tzigone
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
Actually, Durq, I agree. Ratings depend on a whole slew of factors. I just seem to remember claims that the ratings of Promise showed how little interest people have in Lana, and that TPTB should get that message.
But I thought Promise got lots of Promotion, and Progeny didn't (not until Thursday, anyway, and that's a bit late). Anyway, even the Progeny trailers didn't promote the best stuff ("War" and Lex with his line on "make prison seem like a picnic" - at least, I didn't see it).
I don't know much about ratings and the like, but I just feel like this entire season has been poor, for the most part. I know the viewership of CW is less than WB, and I thought Smallville had lost viewers season-to-season every year except season 2. But I still think they'd get better ratings with more Superman mytharc stuff.
EllyF
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:13 pm
But I thought Promise got lots of Promotion, and Progeny didn't (not until Thursday, anyway, and that's a bit late).
According to Scry's trailer count above, "Promise" got far more trailer airings than any other episode. If anything was going to bring people back from a hiatus, that should have done it. Its ratings were fairly poor, but you could probably blame that on the hiatus. What I think is more relevant is that the ratings dropped pretty dramatically right afterward. Conversely, the highest-rated episode this year (despite not too much promotion) was "Justice." At this point, you'd think TPTB might be thinking to themselves, "Gee, maybe people are interested in the Superman mythos more than lame and boring love triangles that go around and around and never get resolved."
But maybe they LIKE low ratings. I don't know.
liz antoinette
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:19 pm
Can't say I'm surprised. Disappointed maybe, but not surprised. I was expecting the ratings to be this low. It's a shame really. :|
gobatara
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:27 pm
Breakdowns
Smallville
8:00 p.m. V: 3.78 million, A18-49: 1.6/ 5
8:30 p.m. V: 4.29 million, A18-49: 1.8/ 5
Edited cause the second half is 4.29 million not 4.87 million
Firebunny
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:27 pm
At this point, you'd think TPTB might be thinking to themselves, "Gee, maybe people are interested in the lame and boring Superman mythos more than exciting and sexy love triangles that go around and around and never get resolved. Yay Lana!"
Fixed to represent how the Goughlar really think.
EllyF
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:30 pm
8:00 p.m. V: 3.78 million, A18-49: 1.6/ 5
8:30 p.m. V: 4.87 million, A18-49: 1.8/ 5
Over a million more viewers tuned in at 8:30? Is that normal? Or is everyone like me, refusing to watch the show lately until they get some feedback from other viewers on the Internet?
Massena1
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:37 pm
Promotion is a big deal. The CW put in TWICE as much effort promoting Promise over any other episode of the season. TWICE. They didn't do as much for "Justice" which got the best ratings of the season. Imagine what "Justice" *might* have gotten ratings-wise if only the CW had put in the biggest effort into promoting it this season.
The CW has a very odd tendency to give up. To give up on episodes. To give up on shows.
I definitely feel they gave up on Progeny and I'm not feeling the love for Nemesis either. Although, the second episode after a hiatus usually does better because some viewers miss out on the first post hiatus episode because they don't know new episodes are airing. Combat's dip in ratings was very unusual in that sense.
I guess one could argue they have a "pick your battles" mentality, but serialized shows don't work that way. Lead-ins are a big deal. Retaining an audience is a big deal. TV viewing is a habitual practice. Networks want to keep shows in the habit. Every hiatus is a problem because it breaks the habit. Promise didn't get good overall ratings and so instead of beefing up publicity for Combat to bring the audience back in the next week in case interest was waning and promoting the end of the season, the CW did less than usual. And then they let the audience go without telling them when to return. A really bad choice.
We've been here for weeks wondering what is going on with their lack of promotion for Smallville when it is one of their top products and I still don't understand it. Aside from Promise, I really haven't seen any evidence that the CW is enthusiastic about Smallville by the way they promote it.
Breakdown for Combat:
Smallville
8:00 p.m. V: 3.77 million, A18-49: 1.6/ 5
8:30 p.m. V: 4.46 million, A18-49: 1.8/ 5
Breakdown for Progeny
8:00 p.m. V: 3.78 million, A18-49: 1.6/ 5
8:30 p.m. V: 4.29 million, A18-49: 1.8/ 5
A very small change in overall viewership (150,000 viewers remember with no lead in), none in demos.
They need to get people excited again about these characters and this show. They're down to the diehards at this point.
RichardAK
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:45 pm
A couple of days before the episode aired, I posted a
theory on the CW Source blog that I thought TPTB might be deliberately sabotaging the ratings of "Progeny" by not promoting it. I don't know whether that's true, but it does seem pretty clear to me that comparing the ratings of "Progeny" to "Promise" sight unseen would be mistaken, mostly for the reason that
Tzigone,
EllyF, and others have already offered: "Promise" was extremely heavily promoted, and yet the ratings were lackluster, and then dipped severely immediately thereafter, while "Progeny" was barely promoted at all. There is another reason as well, though: the ratings, as I read them, did not slip that radically from the prior episode: the overnights for "Combat" were 4.2 million, while the overnights for "Progeny" were 4.03 million. That's not a trivial drop, but it's not that huge either, especially given the lack of promotion, the long hiatus, etc. Also, the finals for "Combat" were only 4.067 million, so
if the viewership for "Progeny" holds up in the finals, then we may end up looking at a drop that is more or less trivial.
Durq
Apr 20, 2007 @ 12:47 pm
Actually, Durq, I agree. Ratings depend on a whole slew of factors. I just seem to remember claims that the ratings of Promise showed how little interest people have in Lana, and that TPTB should get that message.
"Promise" received nearly double the promotion of every other episode this year. Also, wedding episodes are traditionally supposed to be ratings gold - yet the ratings for "Promise" (while not terrible) ended up being pretty limp. I'm no expert but I do wonder if that indicates Smallville has tapped as deep into that particular fanbase (ie those who prefer soapy eps over action eps) as they're going to get.
"Justice", with less promotion than "Promise" but strong word of mouth, brought in over a half million extra viewers. Those viewers seem to have stuck around for "Labryinth" (strong action plot; Martian Manhunter) then dwindled off.
Something else I've wondered about: Didn't both "Cyborg" and "Fall-out" score unexpectedly high ratings? Maybe they need to write a S7 arc for Lee Thompson Young, bring back Phil Morris or do an ep. with the John Stewart version of Green Lantern. There's clearly an audience interested in seeing Clark partner with an African-American hero.
quietone
Apr 20, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
Over a million more viewers tuned in at 8:30? Is that normal? Or is everyone like me, refusing to watch the show lately until they get some feedback from other viewers on the Internet?
One possible factor:
The Office was a repeat.
mallory54
Apr 20, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
Do any of us know for sure that extra promotions increase viewership? And if so, by how much?
I'm not so interested in theories, or reasoning, but hard evidence.
tabbymarie
Apr 20, 2007 @ 2:45 pm
Mallory, if promotions DIDNT increase viewership......why would there be promotions at all?
Advertising does not have a "hard evidence" scale. If it did, every company would be top 100 by following the magic formula. There is no way to measure the success of a campaign without meticulously making every consumer fill out a survey and forcing them to answer honestly.
Promoting an episode, whether it be "extra" promos or not, reminds the viewers that the episode will be playing....thus causes an increase in viewership...especially after a hiatus when normal viewers may not remember when the next "new" episode is airing.
Demanding "hard evidence" to advertising results is silly.
Bitterswete
Apr 20, 2007 @ 2:53 pm
Promoting an episode, whether it be "extra" promos or not, reminds the viewers that the episode will be playing....thus causes an increase in viewership...especially after a hiatus when normal viewers may not remember when the next "new" episode is airing.
The purpose of a promo isn't only to remind people about a new episode, but to let them know there's going to be a new episode in the first place after a long hiatus.
It just stands to reason that the more an episode is promoted, the more people will know about it, the more people are likely to watch it.
I've been to other message boards, and there are people all over saying they didn't even know SV was showing a new episode last night. Even among those who watched, many say the only reason they
did know about the new episode was hearing about it at the message boards.
Compare it to "Promise." For an episode airing right after a break, I was surprised by how little, "I didn't know it was a new ep so I missed it," talk there was. Because "Promise" was promoted out the wazoo and it was hard
not to know there was going to be a new episode that week.
Promotion definately matters. I think it hard to get specific, exact figures on it. But it's pretty much an undeniable fact that good promotional campaigns have better results than bad ones.
Miss Dee
Apr 20, 2007 @ 3:17 pm
Huh. I'm going to build on Richard's suggestion with an idea of my own: What if the CW really is playing with Smallville's promotion? Not in an attempt to sabotage the show, but rather trying to determine exactly how much of its audience can be found on the Internet?
Put it this way: if they don't promote the episode, and 2/3 of Smallville's audience still tunes in, that might be an indication that a large percentage of that audience is indeed to be found on the Internet. Now that might not do a lot in terms of affecting the storyline (although I might wish it would... as long as they read the TWoP boards *grin*), but it would indicate how much of their budget they should put into online promotion rather than television promotion... especially if they can reach a large majority of the same audience with cheaper Internet advertising than more expensive TV advertising. They can reduce expenses by cutting the budget for TV promos and increasing that of online promotion, while still retaining most of the audience.
Smallville is an older show who is not going to increase its audience materially for the rest of its run, and whose existence is pretty much guaranteed for next year even if the audience drops. If it does get cancelled next year or the year after, it will most likely be due to a combination of age and a bunch of new series that needs airtime - not a ratings factor. Its audience is pretty stable by now - thus, Smallville might be a good candidate with which to do such experiments. Determining how much of its audience will be brought in by Internet-based promotion and word-of-mouth might help them decide what promotion mix they should do for other, newer shows whose existence depends much more on the ratings.
Kahhhn
Apr 20, 2007 @ 3:17 pm
I just hope the numbers increase next week. Something else I noticed in that press release...A new episode of Ugly Betty had their worst ratings for the season. My guess is that people just weren't watching TV last night. That and the pre-emptions, which if these numbers go down like Combat will mean that Smallville will dip under 4 million in total viewers for the first time this year.
That will not be good. Not so much for renewal, because that is a given, but for their budget next year which will take a hit with the bad ratings.
mallory54
Apr 20, 2007 @ 3:22 pm
Edited for baiting other posters.
VersesBatman
Apr 20, 2007 @ 3:27 pm
I wonder if they didn't bother to mention Lynda Carter was Wonder Woman because they assumed not many viewers watched her show.
It's probably a reach, but I'm trying to figure out why the lack of promotions.
Kahhhn
Apr 20, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
(Stuff related to deleted post removed)
Fact of the matter is that this was pre-empted in Chicago, and it got almost no promotion. I had to tell my Dad that it was a new episode and that Lynda Carter was going to be on..He was excited about that.
Advertising is not an exact science..Just when you think you have it figured out, the audiences tastes change.
shadowguy
Apr 20, 2007 @ 4:42 pm
Progeny's Final ratings are in:
Smallville
- 3.976 million viewers
- 2.4/4 HH
- 1.7/5 A18-49
- 1.9/7 A18-34
Kahhhn
Apr 20, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
Damn, so it dipped under 4 million....The Lana fans are going to have a field day with that one..lol
hodl2003
Apr 20, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
Damn, so it dipped under 4 million....The Lana fans are going to have a field day with that one..lol
Damn is right! I fully expected it to be right on par with at least Combat. Shit, and I liked Progeny.
RichardAK
Apr 20, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
Those actually aren't so bad at all. The finals for "Combat" were only 4.067 million, so by that measure, it ended up losing fewer than 100,000 viewers from the prior episode, which, given the long hiatus and the lack of promotion, isn't so bad at all. Also, a 1.9 amongst 18-34 year-olds, which is the CW's target demographic, is again, not bad for a Smallville episode this season.
nzs
Apr 20, 2007 @ 5:09 pm
Weren't there spoilers at one point that "Progeny" was not only about Chloe's mom but about Lana's baby? I thought SDK made mention of this in his blog.
Tzigone
Apr 20, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
Weren't there spoilers at one point that "Progeny" was not only about Chloe's mom but about Lana's baby? I thought SDK made mention of this in his blog.
I recall speculation along that vein (from myself, in fact), but I think only a day or so later SAM came in and told us it was about Moira.
Massena1
Apr 20, 2007 @ 6:22 pm
Turn those frowns upside down people and thank goodness for Travis Yanan at pifeedback.com forums for giving us the demos. Despite the hiatus, having a pitiful lead in and less promotion than usual, Progeny actually did better than Combat in the 18-34 demo which is all those bozos at the CW focus on. It went UP. It even got a 7 share. HA!
Combat
- 4.067 million viewers
- 2.5/4 HH
- 1.7/5 A18-49
- 1.8/6 A18-34
Progeny
Smallville
- 3.976 million viewers
- 2.4/4 HH
- 1.7/5 A18-49
- 1.9/7 A18-34
Chiriru
Apr 20, 2007 @ 10:00 pm
So can someone who has the official list of the season with totals and demos repost them all with updates for comparisons?
raven1066
Apr 21, 2007 @ 4:40 am
Plus if I remember correctly, "Combat" wasn't pre-empted in Chicago as "Progeny" was. "Progeny" got about the same viewers as last season's episde 18 got ("Fragile.") Not to mention that "Progeny's'" ratings didn't have that much effect on the overall average of the season- which is at 4.69 million viewers. I was hoping that we wouldn't dip below the 4 million mark this season (AND Smallville wouldn't have if not for the pre-emption.) But remember the last two 2 season have had at least 1 episode each just below the 4 million mark. All in all this week's episode performed well.
radioreverie
Apr 21, 2007 @ 8:11 am
Plus if I remember correctly, "Combat" wasn't pre-empted in Chicago as "Progeny" was.
Combat
was pre-empted.
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