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34 minutes ago, Jakes said:

SPN got a .6 and 1.82 million.  The show is a beast and Dabb is keeping the boat afloat no problem ratings-wise.  Against first day of Olympics and it doesn't miss a beat.

And THIS is why Mark Pedowitz and Peter Roth are so loyal.  

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 I wouldn't call it a beast. Not even for the CW. It's dropped to third in ratings after Black Lightning. It performs well enough to not be cancelled. But beast is overstating things ratings wise  The boat is staying afloat in spite of Dabb. It's the loyal viewers who are not ready to let  go of The Winchesters and Castiel who keep it afloat, sho suffer the crap storylines just to see TFW.

I find it telling that viewers dropped out halfway. Guess that's what happens when you focus too much on Lucifer and not TFW.

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20 minutes ago, catrox14 said:

 I wouldn't call it a beast. Not even for the CW. It's dropped to third in ratings after Black Lightning. It performs well enough to not be cancelled. But beast is overstating things.rating s wise  The boat  is staying g afloat in spite of  of Dabb. It's the loyal viewers who are not ready to let  go of The Winchesters and Castiel who keep it afloat. Who suffer the crap storylines just to see TFW.

I find it telling g that hey dropped out halfway. Guess that's what happens when you focus too much on Lucifer and not TFW.

 

Totally disagree--that it's in 13th season and coasting along is beastly.  Without a doubt and third place in whole network is impressive and Black Lightning in it's first season barely beats SPN--SPN by end of year most likely will edge it.  That said you are of course entitled to the view on the quality--we all have differing opinions on that. 

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57 minutes ago, Jakes said:

Totally disagree--that it's in 13th season and coasting along is beastly.  Without a doubt and third place in whole network is impressive and Black Lightning in it's first season barely beats SPN--SPN by end of year most likely will edge it.  That said you are of course entitled to the view on the quality--we all have differing opinions on that. 

100% agree the show is in it's 13th year and is #3 on the network. It also has less year-year drops than other shows on tje network. SPN is definitely a beast.

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22 hours ago, Jakes said:

Totally disagree--that it's in 13th season and coasting along is beastly.  Without a doubt and third place in whole network is impressive and Black Lightning in it's first season barely beats SPN--SPN by end of year most likely will edge it.  That said you are of course entitled to the view on the quality--we all have differing opinions on that. 

 

I guess I have a very different view of what "beast" means. I think of a ratings beast as something like the Walking Dead which draws 6 to 10 million per episode on a basic cable network.

Now, for the whole show, for its lifespan, in total with DVD sales and mdse etc yes it is a beast. I just don't think for me it counts as a beast in ratings, which doesn't mean it sucks either. And I'm not saying that before anything gets twisted into something I didn't say.

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30 minutes ago, catrox14 said:

I guess I have a very different view of what "beast" means. I think of a ratings beast as something like the Walking Dead which draws 6 to 10 million per episode on a basic cable network.

Now, for the whole show, for its lifespan, in total with DVD sales and mdse etc yes it is a beast. I just don't think for me it counts as a beast in ratings. which doesn't mean it sucks either. And I'm not saying that before anything gets twisted into something I didn't say.

Yes we certainly disagree.

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For anyone interested I just happened to come across this. These are the CW ratings from last week. The first figure is the shows unrounded live rating and the second is the unrounded L+3 rating

 

The Flash ............ 0.884 .... 1.472

Black Lightning ... 0.760 .... 1.215

Supergirl ............. 0.587 .... 0.905

Supernatural ....... 0.560 .... 0.861

Riverdale ............. 0.482 .... 0.805

Arrow .................. 0.409 .... 0.701
Valor ................... 0.222 .... 0.313

Crazy Ex ............. 0.234 .... 0.295

Jane the Virgin .... 0.289 .... 0.517
Dynasty ............... 0.192 .... 0.272

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27 minutes ago, Wayward Son said:

For anyone interested I just happened to come across this. The first figure is the shows unrounded live rating and the second is the unrounded L+3 rating

 

The Flash ............ 0.884 .... 1.472

Black Lightning ... 0.760 .... 1.215

Supergirl ............. 0.587 .... 0.905

Supernatural ....... 0.560 .... 0.861

Riverdale ............. 0.482 .... 0.805

Arrow .................. 0.409 .... 0.701
Valor ................... 0.222 .... 0.313

Crazy Ex ............. 0.234 .... 0.295

Jane the Virgin .... 0.289 .... 0.517
Dynasty ............... 0.192 .... 0.272

That's from last week right?

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17 hours ago, Casseiopeia said:

We did very well in SM too....

 

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I'm not sure but I think the social media number would've been higher.  Many people seem to tweet about "Gabriel" or "Sister Jo" without the Supernatural hashtag.  That seems to happen every week.  I guess some of the fans don't know that it doesn't count if there's no Supernatural hashtag.  Pretty amazing number, though.  Higher than Doctor Sexy.

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1 hour ago, Casseiopeia said:

The worst offenders are the writers and actors.  If I follow them I try to remind them to #Supernatural

I don't tag every tweet I send with #supernatural  when I am not particularly pleased with something.

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1 hour ago, catrox14 said:

I don't tag every tweet I send with #supernatural  when I am not particularly pleased with something.

I do, since it's the only chance any of TPTB will see anything but the smoke being blown up their skirts. 

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2 hours ago, gonzosgirrl said:

I do, since it's the only chance any of TPTB will see anything but the smoke being blown up their skirts. 

Actually, this is a good point. I didn't consider that. I was mostly trying to avoid other fans coming at me on Twitter for my comments LOL

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47 minutes ago, catrox14 said:

Actually, this is a good point. I didn't consider that. I was mostly trying to avoid other fans coming at me on Twitter for my comments LOL

I try to be respectful, but some of the LOL!Canon and crap characterizations are just too egregious to ignore. My policy is to not tweet/post anything I wouldn't say to the person's face. Long as I do that, they can bring it. 

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This is some good stuff from a fellow commenter in the Arrow forum. It's mostly about the Arrowverse but some good  food for thought re SPN renewal.

I know Pedowitz is in the show's corner or at least pushes it to 'if the boys do it, it keep going"

 

48 minutes ago, quarks said:

(blinks)

1. No, the CW is not very good at letting their shows know when they plan on ending them - several showrunners have been very clear on this point. The CW didn't, for instance, let Reign know that the fourth season would be its last until after Reign had scripted its season finale - leaving Reign scrambling and ending up needing to make an emergency casting call and writing its series finale scenes on set. I mean, yes, I think we can all agree that Reign really should have seen that cancellation coming, but they didn't.

Reign is hardly the only CW show to make this complaint. 

2. No, it's not a huge selling point to Netflix to have shows with proper endings. This includes their own in-house shows - the Sense8 guys had to actually fight to get a proper ending (though, to be fair, that was partly because that was an extremely expensive show).

With the CW specifically, Netflix has said that Arrow and Flash are two of their more popular shows, and are streamed more than The Vampire Diaries - even though as of right now, neither has a proper ending. 

3. The CW doesn't need to inform WB Television or CBS Television Studios of their renewal decisions until a couple months prior to filming - one reason why their decision a few years ago to announce renewals in January took everyone by surprise; they didn't need to make those announcements until April or even May. Same thing is true for all of the Arrowverse shows.

All that said, given that Berlanti is currently providing a good half of the CW's original content, the CW presumably will want to give him a bit more of a heads up.  Or Berlanti might want to make sure that Arrow and the other DC shows get some sort of proper ending, and try to work out some sort of timing thing with the CW in advance, so that everyone knows, going in, that season 7/8/whatever is the last. Or not - given the Arrowverse setup, Arrow could easily have an unplanned "whoops, we got cancelled" ending, and have its actual goodbye/ending over on one of the other shows. Sure, I think Arrow fans would be upset, but the structure is there.

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4 minutes ago, gonzosgirrl said:

I agree.

On a shallow note, it's nice to see them use Jensen's pic for SPN. :)

From the article.

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What do you think of a super-sized CW? If only one bubble series benefits from this expansion, which one are you pulling for?

 

I wonder if this is hinting that with Jensen's pic, that maybe they are moving Supernatural to Sunday nights along with Supergirl maybe? TV line does like their little stealth hints.

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3 minutes ago, catrox14 said:

From the article.

 

I wonder if this is hinting that with Jensen's pic, that maybe they are moving Supernatural to Sunday nights along with Supergirl maybe? TV line does like their little stealth hints.

I think TVLine just likes those shows! Most of their stuff seems to include pics from flash, izombie, supernatural and jane the virgin! 

 

Of course I haven't done a statistical analysis. It's just a general impression of mine, which could be completely wrong haha

 

Eta: @catrox14 It could also be to do with each shows status

 

SN: Oldest on the Network

Flash: Highest Rated

Jane the Virgin: Critic darling

 

I've no idea why Izombie though.... editor preference? lol

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3 minutes ago, Morrigan2575 said:

The pictures don't mean anything. EW used Sam and Green Arrow.

And Variety used Riverdale

 

Writer's choice, I guess.

It's still Supernatural and a Superhero show.  Heh. Oh silly Riverdale screwing up my theory! Dammit!

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I stopped watching anything from CBS on Sunday nights because they screw with the timing so much when football is on. Right now I record Star Trek: Discovery (it's on a different network here, not CBS prime or whatever it's called), but that's about it. Sunday at 9:00 would be okay with me!

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11 minutes ago, Wayward Son said:

Reading around and a lot of people are speculating that Arrow and the new Charmed reboot (assuming its picked up) will air on Sundays. 

I don't see them moving Arrow along side Charmed. Those don't mesh at all. I could see SPN/Charmed but I highly doubt they do that either. I tend to think they will keep Arrow and SPN together.

7 minutes ago, gonzosgirrl said:

I stopped watching anything from CBS on Sunday nights because they screw with the timing so much when football is on. Right now I record Star Trek: Discovery (it's on a different network here, not CBS prime or whatever it's called), but that's about it. Sunday at 9:00 would be okay with me!

It would be up against The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones at 9pm Sundays. I'd be really surprised if they did that.

What happened to Elementary? Did it get cancelled?

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11 minutes ago, catrox14 said:

I don't see them moving Arrow along side Charmed. Those don't mesh at all. I could see SPN/Charmed but I highly doubt they do that either. I tend to think they will keep Arrow and SPN together.

It would be up against The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones at 9pm Sundays. I'd be really surprised if they did that.

What happened to Elementary? Did it get cancelled?

I don't watch either of those things, so for me personally, Sunday nights are wide open (and it's all about meeeee!). I think both Grey's and BBT numbers both far surpass TWD and GoT don't they?

Elementary is another one that suffered (IMO) from the awful CBS airtimes on Sundays. I believe they have filmed all of their current season and it will air.... some time. They haven't been officially cancelled but this limbo is just as bad.

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I really don't know much about the media but why wouldn't they pair up Supernatural with Wayward Sisters?  It seems like they would get a lead in audience of fans to start.  Then, after they are established after the first year, they could move Wayward to it's own night.  Just a question for someone who knows better.

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4 minutes ago, gonzosgirrl said:

Elementary is another one that suffered (IMO) from the awful CBS airtimes on Sundays. I believe they have filmed all of their current season and it will air.... some time. They haven't been officially cancelled but this limbo is just as bad.

I loved Elementary especially the first 3 seasons. I lost track of it when they moved it to Sundays :(

Walking Dead averages 6 to 12 million and I think GoT averaged 10 to 12. BBT and Greys are around 12 to 14 million. GoT probably won't be back until 2019 so there's that.

Also, IMO there is are crossover audiences for SPN, Walking Dead and GoT. I'm not sure SPN wants to risk losing the genre viewers who might choose WD or GoT vs SPN. But I could be wrong!

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6 minutes ago, bozodegama said:

I really don't know much about the media but why wouldn't they pair up Supernatural with Wayward Sisters?  It seems like they would get a lead in audience of fans to start.  Then, after they are established after the first year, they could move Wayward to it's own night.  Just a question for someone who knows better.

 I'm not sure they should poke the bear more by putting them on the same night. Not even to give them a boost, because it might not work.I think they will be okay to put them on different nights but maybe have one or two crossover episodes to get the ball rolling but IMO it's a bit divisive (right or wrong). I don't know though. I could be totally wrong.

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2 minutes ago, catrox14 said:

 I'm not sure they should poke the bear more by putting them on the same night. Not even to give them a boost, because it might not work.I think they will be okay to put them on different nights but maybe have one or two crossover episodes to get the ball rolling but IMO it's a bit divisive (right or wrong). I don't know though. I could be totally wrong.

Maybe they think two hours is too much Supernatural to watch.  I'm really amazed at how many of the young fans on twitter are just Wayward fans, not Supernatural fans.  How is that even possible?  You need to watch a lot of Supernatural to even know whats going on in Wayward, i think. 

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It's too bad the 'live' viewership has so much weight in the ratings. There is very little I watch live apart from SPN (for tweeting) and This Is Us (so as not to be spoiled). Thursday nights are ridiculous for me - I record Grey's, BBT, Mom, Nashville, 911 - but I don't even considering it 'choosing' between them, I just watch them all. I realize it's ads they want the eyeballs on, but even if I'm watching live, I am not paying attention to the commercials.

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7 minutes ago, gonzosgirrl said:

It's too bad the 'live' viewership has so much weight in the ratings. There is very little I watch live apart from SPN (for tweeting) and This Is Us (so as not to be spoiled). Thursday nights are ridiculous for me - I record Grey's, BBT, Mom, Nashville, 911 - but I don't even considering it 'choosing' between them, I just watch them all. I realize it's ads they want the eyeballs on, but even if I'm watching live, I am not paying attention to the commercials.

I don't think live viewers alone  matter that much to the CW. they count live and DVR. But thinking more Got has generally run April to Summer or Summer to Fall so maybe it's really only TWD that would be a factor and footballS o maybe Sunday night would be a  good move for it. Hmmm. hard to say.

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Not sure if this is the right place for this so, if it isn't, someone should tell me.  Has  anyone seen the new Black Lightning show?  I heard it was pretty good and I watched a few episodes the other night.  It's not bad for a CW superhero show, some of the other ones are a little tedious.  I'm not that crazy about all the hip hop music but it's going to be impossible to please a music dinosaur like me.  Just curious if other Supernatural fans liked the show?

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2 minutes ago, bozodegama said:

Not sure if this is the right place for this so, if it isn't, someone should tell me.  Has  anyone seen the new Black Lightning show?  I heard it was pretty good and I watched a few episodes the other night.  It's not bad for a CW superhero show, some of the other ones are a little tedious.  I'm not that crazy about all the hip hop music but it's going to be impossible to please a music dinosaur like me.  Just curious if other Supernatural fans liked the show?

I love it.

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42 minutes ago, catrox14 said:

 I'm not sure they should poke the bear more by putting them on the same night. Not even to give them a boost, because it might not work.I think they will be okay to put them on different nights but maybe have one or two crossover episodes to get the ball rolling but IMO it's a bit divisive (right or wrong). I don't know though. I could be totally wrong.

 

They will 100% put them on the same night IMO, especially now that SPN has finally been deemed lead-in worthy and is pretty much the only decent platform to launch WS outside The Flash.

The SPN/Arrow pairing isn't the big deal it used to be, as the latter is showing its age now.

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41 minutes ago, BoxManLocke said:

 

They will 100% put them on the same night IMO, especially now that SPN has finally been deemed lead-in worthy and is pretty much the only decent platform to launch WS outside The Flash.

The SPN/Arrow pairing isn't the big deal it used to be, as the latter is showing its age now.

 

 

Its' already divisive in fandom. It will continue to draw too many comparisons for better or worse. Even in this forum. It was not 100% well received and embraced by all of fandom. Even those that want WS don't necessarily want the Claire show. Then there is the network who is looking at Kathryn Newton as the star. Some fans love Claire. Others don't.  Extrapolate that into the wider SM world of Twitter and Facebook.

IMO, if they are doing fair research on this, TPTB should pay attention to both the negative and positive feedback; look at what fans of SPN and WS  liked and didn't like about the set up to the spinoff They have a real challenge IMO to decide how to handle it going forward.

As @bozodegama noted there are WS fans who want nothing to do with SPN so they aren't going to watch SPN ahead of WS thus it being a lead out does nothing for SPN. And it could harm it if it drops lower than Arrow numbers. There are a lot of SPN fans who want nothing to do with the spinoff, so they aren't going to tune in even if it's on immediately following SPN ergo IMO, it doesn't behoove either SPN nor WS to be on the same night.

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Historically the CW has avoided pairing mother shows with their spin offs.  If I recall correctly Arrow aired on Wednesday nights when the Flash debuted on Tuesday nights and I believe the originals aired on Tuesday nights while the vampire diaries stayed on Thursday. Although they did eventually pair those two on Friday nights. So I’d say based on CW history SN and WS probably won’t be paired together. 

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7 minutes ago, Wayward Son said:

Historically the CW has avoided pairing mother shows with their spin offs.  If I recall correctly Arrow aired on Wednesday nights when the Flash debuted on Tuesday nights and I believe the originals aired on Tuesday nights while the vampire diaries stayed on Thursday. Although they did eventually pair those two on Friday nights. So I’d say based on CW history SN and WS probably won’t be paired together. 

To add to that, Legends of Tomorrow premiered  on Thursday night before the 100 and to do that they moved TVD to Fridays. I suppose they could air WS ahead of SPN but I'm not sure they would do that either. 

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4 hours ago, gonzosgirrl said:

I don't watch either of those things, so for me personally, Sunday nights are wide open (and it's all about meeeee!). I think both Grey's and BBT numbers both far surpass TWD and GoT don't they?

Elementary is another one that suffered (IMO) from the awful CBS airtimes on Sundays. I believe they have filmed all of their current season and it will air.... some time. They haven't been officially cancelled but this limbo is just as bad.

TWD is the highest rated show on TV. The avg demo for TWD this season is 6.72 with 13 million viewers. TBBT is only pulling in a 2.92 in the demo and around 14 million viewers. Yes, I know more viewers but they're outside the demo so they don't count ?

GoT is 3.85 in the demo and 7.69 million viewers. 

Of course another big ratings show is Sunday Night Football, 6.1 in the demo and 18 million viewers. Compare that to Thursday Night Football at 4.5 demo and 14 million viewers.

I'm not sure why people latched on to the idea that Arrow would to Sundays. I'd expect a more female skewing or a family shpw, Wayward Sisters, Supergirl, Charmed or that new Berlanti drama about the HS Football star in Beverly Hills on Sundays

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