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Ratings and Scheduling: Hail to the Gods


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I feel bad for Constantine fans who were hoping for a ratings boom (as unlikely as a show resurrection may be). I think the leak might have hurt, primarily because Constantine's backstory with Oliver was pretty ridiculous, as was Sara's rescue. I enjoyed the ep overall, but I thought that the Constantine storyline wasn't all that well done, considering the hype.

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This episode also wasn't up against a World Series game like last week. I expected a bigger bump, especially considering the Constantine factor.

402 ratings adjusted up, but yeah, the rest stayed the same or adjusted down.

So...1 out of 4 weeks...

 

Here's the unrounded numbers for this week

 

Arrow ...................................... 1.031

Supernatural .......................... 0.610

 

Unless there was some overrun or something else that could cause an adjustment both Arrow and (sadly) SPN will stay the same in finals.

I think that was people being very unrealistic about the ratings.

 

No one actually said the ratings would be huge but just visiting Facebook and other places, a lot of people were commenting about bringing back Constantine and it just gave the impression that a lot of people watched the show. (I'd never watched so I had no idea.) So I just assumed there would be a huge ratings bump. That's why I'm surprised there's barely any change at all.

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No one actually said the ratings would be huge but just visiting Facebook and other places, a lot of people were commenting about bringing back Constantine and it just gave the impression that a lot of people watched the show. (I'd never watched so I had no idea.) So I just assumed there would be a huge ratings bump. That's why I'm surprised there's barely any change at all.

Fans seem to, as I said, I saw people on spoilertv predicting a 1.2 and I thought that was unrealistic. I do think Constantine fans (of which I am one) over estimated the ratings...mostly wishful thinking, IMO

Didn't Arrow scored a 0.9 last week? I wouldn't call a 2 tenths jump in the demo barely any change.

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Fans seem to, as I said, I saw people on spoilertv predicting a 1.2 and I thought that was unrealistic. I do think Constantine fans (of which I am one) over estimated the ratings...mostly wishful thinking, IMO

Didn't Arrow scored a 0.9 last week? I wouldn't call a 2 tenths jump in the demo barely any change.

If the "World Series depresses ratings for other shows" theory is to be believed, some of the .2 could be from recovering that audience. I'm sure Constantine must have brought in some new viewers too.

I'm sure Constantine brought some viewers in, there were a lot of Hellblazers tweeting and watching the show yesterday, still i don't think it did that well.

https://twitter.com/StilettoRoyalty/status/662383763914141696Felicity Smoak ep 3x05 on it's own,no other DC char added, did better. Although this tweet says it was 2.62 M viewers it actually adjusted up to 2.72M and it was during the CMA's too 

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Felicity Smoak ep 3x05 on it's own,no other DC char added, did better.

2x08 (Barry Allen's introduction pre the Flash) did 3.24 million and a 1.2 in demo.  The crossover episode 3x08 did 3.92 million with a 1.4 in the demo.

 

Which is why it's important for good, quality episodes to follow the crossover.  Last season's crossover gave Arrow a bump for several episodes but gradually declined to normal.  I'd argue the episodes following the crossover were kinda bad and if they had been of higher quality the new viewers might have grown attached to the characters and turned permanent.

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2x08 (Barry Allen's introduction pre the Flash) did 3.24 million and a 1.2 in demo.  The crossover episode 3x08 did 3.92 million with a 1.4 in the demo.

 

Which is why it's important for good, quality episodes to follow the crossover.  Last season's crossover gave Arrow a bump for several episodes but gradually declined to normal.  I'd argue the episodes following the crossover were kinda bad and if they had been of higher quality the new viewers might have grown attached to the characters and turned permanent.

 

 I think i didn't made my point very well, let me try and clarify 

 

"Felicity Smoak ep 3x05 on it's own,no other DC char added, did better" .....On her own, no other DC superhero characters added, during the same CMA's that where going on yesterday, the highest rated episode and demo before the crossover, worthy of a CW press release just like the premiere this year. CW press releases don't come around that often for Arrow 

 

"2x08 (Barry Allen's introduction pre the Flash) did 3.24 million and a 1.2 in demo"  1.1 demo yes it did, Barry Allen also known as Flash, a DC superhero 

 

"The crossover episode 3x08 did 3.92 million with a 1.4 in the demo" Again a crossover episode with another DC superhero and two fandoms from 2 shows

 

"Which is why it's important for good, quality episodes to follow the crossover.  Last season's crossover gave Arrow a bump for several episodes but gradually declined to normal.  I'd argue the episodes following the crossover were kinda bad and if they had been of higher quality the new viewers might have grown attached to the characters and turned permanent."  I agree, it's important to deliver good episodes after the crossover to try and grab more viewers, but honestly i don't think a lot of Flash fans stick around to watch Arrow, especially not last year with all the doom and gloom, and i'm not seeing it this year either. Crossover will do good, but after, it will probably decline to normal Arrow ratings again. This is Arrow S4 for a CW show with 4 seasons it's doing good

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Flash is hugely popular and Arrow got a huge boost in ratings in 208/209 thanks to Barry Allen and in 308 which, IIRC was the highest rated Arrow episode ever.

I have no doubt that Arrow will get another boost in 408 that may carry over to the MSF and early January episodes. I also wonder if Arrow will now play the someone's dead card every x09 because Oliver dying in 309 helped maintain momentum in the winter episodes. 409 Felicity "dies", 509 Diggle "dies", 609 Thea gets "killed".

I'm almost positive Arrow now does their big death/departure episodes in 19/20 because of the boost they got from Moira'so death.

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I'm surprised that there was any expectation for a boost with Constantine. It was a grindingly-mediocre-at-best show that a lot of the fans of the source material did not like and clearly new/casual viewers weren't enthralled either. From what I saw I think Matt Ryan and the Arrow writers managed to make him work better on this show than I would have expected. I actually thought it adjusting up to 1.1 was impressive, especially considering I keep reading articles that say things to the effect of, "None of this Sara story is about Arrow, bring back Felicity and Diggle."

 

Considering that many of the comments I did read from Constantine fans who watched for him basically said they thought Arrow sucked, I'm not sure how many of them will bother staying around. 

 

To me the main problem with the show isn't so much who is or isn't in the spotlight and is just piss-poor storyboarding and storytelling in general.

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Before 405 aired, MG said he did not think the leak would affect their ratings (warning - rest of article contains spoilery info)...

DEADLINE: In terms of catching up, earlier this week, the Haunted episode got leaked online, what do you think of that and what the impact will be?
GUGGENHEIM: Obviously we’re not thrilled about it. You try to make yourself feel better by saying that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but this is obviously not how we want people to experience the episode. Particularly since it was pirated off a screener copy without finalized visual effects, sound and color.
 

That said, I don’t think — knock on wood — it will affect our ratings. Arrow had traditionally been one of the more torrented shows out there and it hasn’t affected us before. Fingers crossed.

http://deadline.com/2015/11/arrow-constantine-spoilers-flash-marc-guggenheim-matt-ryan-legends-of-tomorrow-batman-1201606994/

Particularly since it was pirated off a screener copy without finalized visual effects, sound and color.

 

It didn't look that different to me. The sound effects were louder but that didn't add anything to the ep and when they were using Thea as a bait someone else said Oliver's line. Other than those two things everything looked exactly the same. 

Interesting stats in this article...

Show (Network)                      % male    % female    Median age
 

Supergirl (CBS)                           51              49                 56.0

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC)     53             47                 46.9

Gotham (Fox)                             57             43                  47.2

Arrow (CW)                                 58             42                  42.9

The Flash (CW)                           60             40                  41.9
 

Percentage of adult viewership among men and women for current-season episodes, and median age of all viewers.
 

Source: Nielsen

'Supergirl' soars with women as well as men
Gary Levin, USA TODAY 6:50 p.m. EST November 8, 2015
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/11/08/superhero-tv-series-male-female-viewers/75218606/

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I can understand the median age for Supergirl being older since it's the only show on CBS and that station appeals to older, but I'm surprised that Arrow and Flash have a median age of 43 and 42 respectively even though they are on the CW.  Are younger people not watching TV, and watching on their tablets etc instead?

 

Also interesting that the Flash and Arrow are the greatest percentage of men. The CW must be happy.  (I can understand why Gotham is 57% male viewers, it's so dark.)

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