UPDATE: Showbuzz weighs in with an actual ratings number for “Years of Living Dangerously” and it’s mind blowingly low. Even this blog reached more people on Sunday. See below.
Showtime’s “Years of Living Dangerously” aired Sun, Apr 20, at 10:00 PM and didn’t even make the top 100 cable TV shows this week and was beaten in its time slot by a re-run episode of the animated cartoon Bob’s Burgers. Ouch!
Above: Image from the Showtime website advertising the series
According to the producer, this docudrama got the “big budget” treatment to the tune of $20 million. Looks like nobody cares.
Here are the top 50 from Sunday, with link to the full top 100:
Source: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/04/22/sunday-cable-ratings-game-of-thrones-wins-night-nba-playoffs-real-housewives-of-atlanta-naked-and-afraid-more/256183/
Maybe it was the “journalists”. Matt Damon, Harrison Ford, Jessica Alba, Ian Somerhalder, Thomas Friedman, and many more celebrities and journalists participated in the documentary event series. For example, even Ahnold didn’t help:
Above: Image from the Showtime website advertising the series
On Season 1, Episode 2: Harrison Ford investigates the global effects of the palm oil industry and corruption in Indonesia, and Arnold Schwarzenegger joins an elite team of wild-land firefighters as they battle a new breed of forest fires.
Yeah, sure, I want to see that: Indiana Jones and The Temple of Rubes
Pretty sad that reruns of “Bob’s Burgers” on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim can beat it. It just goes to show that doom and gloom does not sell.
UPDATE: Showbuzz weighs in with an actual ratings number for “Years of Living Dangerously” and it’s mind blowingly low:
.04 !!! According to last week’s report, the premiere of YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, had a microscopic 0.07.
To help make sense of just how low that rating of 0.04 is, here is some background.
The most commonly cited Nielsen results are reported in two measurements: ratings points and share, usually reported as: “ratings points/share”. As of August 27, 2012, there are an estimated 114.2 million television households in the United States, a drop of nearly 500,000 from the previous year. A single national ratings point represents one percent of the total number, or 1,142,000 households for the 2012–13 season.[2] Nielsen re-estimates the number of TV-equipped households each August for the upcoming television season.
So let’s just use that number for 2012-2013 of 1,142,000 TV households (representing a single ratings point) and multiply by 0.04. We get: 45,680 households viewing “Years of Living Dangerously”.
Wow. On Sunday, typically one of our slowest days, WUWT had 80,468 views. See the screencap from WUWT’s WordPress Dashboard:
Hold on now, can’t they do some “adjustments” to make the numbers look better?
I bet more people watched a pirated Game of Thrones than this, too funny.
Is it safe to say it’s worse than we thought?
Couldn’t happen to a more fitting bunch of airheads and clowns.
Best of all, they wasted their own money on this!
Priceless.
I just wish people would turn apathy into action. It’s no good knowing AGW is a crock people should look at how much it’s costing them and get angry
Perhaps they’re hoping that the ratings figures will be a hockey stick shape.
Ron
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Au contraire mon ami, “doom and gloom” often rates well especially with role model megastars in the mix – but perhaps the US folk either don’t care as they tackle more pressing issues or simply are not buying the BS. i hope the latter is the case …
Wow, the climate hype did that well?
I’m quite offended by this post. It suggests that there is something wrong with “Bob’s Burgers” which I think is hands down, alongside “Archer” some of the funniest, wittiest, comedic adult animation to be found. How very dare you?
/comedysarc 😉 Seriously. Give it a watch. So funny.
To be fair, Bob’s Burgers is probably the best thing on TV right now.
I was right! #(;))
(on April 14, at 5:57pm — yeah!)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/14/exploiting-human-misery-and-distorting-the-science-an-environmentalists-critique-of-years-of-living-dangerously/#comment-1613455
“… the best thing about this movie is: IT IS BORING!”
“Your average Maria and Joe {TV viewer} will not waste their { } time on it.”
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On the other hand….
Sounds like a great comedy! Seriously. When I read the quote below, my first response was to laugh and ask (really wondered!), “Is this a joke?”
On Season 1, Episode 2: Harrison Ford investigates the global effects of the palm oil industry and corruption in Indonesia, and Arnold Schwarzenegger joins an elite team of wild-land firefighters as they battle a new breed of forest fires.
That’s just as good as “boring.” Ignore them or laugh at them — it’s all the same: NOBODY IS TAKING THEM SERIOUSLY ANY – MORE!
Bwah, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaaaaa!
We need someone to total up the number of homes, cars, planes, yachts and private jet flights these celebrities account for – that kind of wealth and life style churns out huge amounts of CO2 – not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Does anyone realize how dangerous this poor showing is? Now the alarmist AGWers will be working overtime on their propaganda. Sheesh! Just when I thought everything was going to be cool. (pun intended)
“…as they battle a new breed of forest fires.”
What the heck is a new breed of forest fire?
geologyjim says: (April 22, 2014 at 10:39 am )
Don’t be too certain of this without doing some checking first, after all: NSF Funds Climate Change Musical .
I love how the out take for the series ad catches Schwarzenegger side-longing the camera instead of squinting into the distance like the man of action he pretends to be.
Maybe so but billionaire Tom Steyer has proved capable of stopping the Keystone Pipeline with all of the jobs and economic growth it represents.
“DontGetOutMuch says:
April 22, 2014 at 10:35 am
Hold on now, can’t they do some “adjustments” to make the numbers look better?”
Sure! Give it to Mikey! There’s no numbers that he can’t fix!
The reason for the low ratings……Global Warming.
mkelly says:
April 22, 2014 at 11:02 am
Secret gummint labs, dangerous splicing of DNA, long montages of guys in coats playing with test-tubes while some Kresge Stores music plays. Just think of what would happen if they combined fire with fire ants!
And they couldn’t beat even THIS….
“Bob’s Burgers”
Pitiful.
If one pays for cable tv, are the shows commercial free?
Reruns of Chumlee beat it! How embarrassing!
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ahhh shut the hell up you moron, you have become sooooo annoying.