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:
Didn’t turn on the tv but, how was this Palm-Oil investigated? Was he aware that there was different kinds of palms?
Attack forest fire’s? They wait till your not looking and attack…..
as a former “believer” who actually went to the trouble of reading the Climategate emails for myself, rather than allowing The Team/MSM gatekeepers/Govt whitewash inquiries to interpret them for me, i warned the MSM not to spend money on further scary CAGW docus because they would not have that endless-repeat value the industry so desires. kind of glad that didn’t hear me cos they’ve now sunk more millions into a dead cause & hastened the demise of the dinosaur media.
pity they have so many more episodes yet to air!
John M says:
April 22, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Well, unless it goes by an abbreviation I don’t recognize, NO Showtime show made it to the top 100.
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I missed it, too.
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“and YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY was at a dismal 0.04. ”
http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/the-sked-sunday-ratings-28.html
The IMDB is censoring reviews.
Huh!!! Hello! Biofuels of your own making.
As for forest fires I will not waste my bandwidth with Mr. “I’ll be back.” It’s so 90’s. But IF he was in the boreal forests then he should relax and maybe also look at forest management practices and the actual DATA. It’s worse or not worse than we dreamed. What a pack of garbage.
[US fire data
So I guess global warming causes bad TV ratings, too?
That palm oil and corruption in Indonesia really is some bad news. A shame they discredited the problem by associating it with AWG and movie stars.
“… pity they have so many more episodes yet to air!” (said Pat at 4:03pm)
Oh, don’t you worry… “CANCELLED” can happen at any moment… .
Heh, heh, heh.
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R.A. Cook (and Gunga Din) (lol): “BeCOz, beCOz, beCOz, beCOz…..
beCOOOOOOOz… beCOz of the wonderful things {it} dOz!…. Oooooh… weeeee’re……
OFF to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of COz!”
“Years of Living Dangerously” will start for Gleick when a new president appoints a new attorney general who will agree with HI to press criminal charges against him.
Of course, they won’t mention that it was and is the idiotic use of palm oil for biofuel which is fueling the huge increase in palm production, and the inevitable negative environmental consequences. Greenies just don’t get it. What they are doing in attacking “carbon” is terrible for the environment, has zero effect on climate, and just makes fuel more expensive, creating fuel poverty.
“and YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY was at a dismal 0.04. ”
Their market share is about the same as CO2 % of the atmosphere.
Hows that for karma?
“Years of Living Dangerously” will start for Mandia’s beloved Union of Concerned Scientists when the slow but sure self-correction in the broader climate science community shows the public its success in exposing the non-scientifically based activism that is the current basis of the union.
John
Oh the irony. We had BIG OIL and now we have BIG PALM OIL? Biofuels fueled big palm in Indonesia with massive releases of ozone, soot and deforestation to power cars! LOL
Nice work, Jimbo! (at 4:14pm) — Wanted to make sure you knew that someone read your encyclopedia chapter which was (POOF! there it appeared!) in moderation, apparently… .
And YOU KEEP SAFE, dear Jimbo — do not EVER tell us your real name! We need you, here!
Oh, and btw, (lol), the test used in U.S. courts of law for whether some one was “threatened” or not is the “reasonable person standard.” That is, would a reasonable person believe, under the circumstances, that he or she was being threatened. Applying that to your facts, NO. No RATIONAL person would have perceived your words as a real threat. And, no rational person would have written such a ridiculous reply to you, either.
You go, Jimbo!
Don’t sweat that pitiful little man.
None of the rest of us do…. anymore…. .
THe boy has cried wolf too many times.
…the wonderful wizard of CO2.
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Maybe if one of the climate models had been a stripper……
Just leave it to so called environmentalists to mismanage forests for years and years through endless lawsuits and misguided legislation, burn said forests to the ground and then claim global warming did it. You’ll never see another crowd like the Sierra Club so willfully blind to the damage they have done.
It will continue until every acre of forest in California has burned. Some areas will have burned so hot and completely that they won’t recover for at least a hundred years. You can see it today driving through areas of the Complex fire in Yosemite that burned 30 years ago; no trees, just low brush.
Now we suffer the effects of the 250,000 acre Rim Fire. Sections of National forests could have been thinned and fire breaks maintained for the inevitable fire.
Global warming my ass! These forests used to be cleared naturally by fires that would consume brush and smaller trees but leave large trees unharmed. So now the fuel load is built up and, combined with the states annual 5 month dry period, is ready to explode. We’ll just wait around doing nothing until it does.
Doesn’t this result classify in the ‘It’s worse than we thought ..’ category. However, it does lead to three testable hypothesises:
1. The eco-loons will now turn up the volume of their hysterics
2. They will increase their ad homs significantly; and (most dangerously)
3. Climate Change be heard less and less, but will morph into a new format e.g. overpopulation is killing the planet, resource depletion (done before, but due for reincarnation), water conservation, whatever …
Perhaps Harrison Ford can explain why Palm Oil is so evil yet clear cutting North Carolina for firewood is akin to sainthood.
Janice Moore says –
“Oh, don’t you worry… “CANCELLED” can happen at any moment”
indeed it can….it’s telling no major MSM has reviewed it as yet!
Quick pull out a fix trick from the Global Warming solutions bag. Hide the decline, use the ‘nature’, err, ‘ratings trick’, refuse to share the data and call everyone a denier who can’t take the information on ‘faith’.
Hi, Pat (8:18pm) — yes, indeed, take heart!
BORING …..
“… I was amazed by how boring it was… .”
“Boring Documentaries — A People’s History” by thishourhas22minutes
No, the documentary under discussion was not made in Canada… . So what.
Still BORING!
And soon… CANCELLED. Heh.
#(:))
Speaking of forest fires, wouldn’t there be more forest fires because of aerial CO2 fertilization causing trees to grow back more quickly than during the approaching dangerously low pre industrial levels of CO2 ?