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:
When I want to know the global effects on palm oil, I always check with a 71 year old actor with an earring.
I was very busy watching paint dry and couldn’t catch either show.
It CAN’T be cancelled! The ratings just need to be adjusted and homogenized. Once THAT data is modelled, it will have been a hit!
No, what we need to do now is find the missing ratings. My vote is the deep ocean …
I wonder how many of the viewers were sceptics checking to see if the programme was as bad as they expected it to be?
“Gamecock says:
April 22, 2014 at 12:49 pm
james says:
April 22, 2014 at 11:29 am
A new breed of forest fires , just when I thought it could not get any dumber.
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Hmmm . . . I’ve heard of ground fires. And crown fires. I’ve got it! ROOT FIRES! OMG!”
I’ve heard of root fires where people try to burn out stumps…one fellow had his house go up because the tree roots apparently invaded the structure of his house (basement ceiling?). Don’t think it happens very often, though. Better root beer than root fires….
CaligulaJones says:
April 22, 2014 at 11:20 am
“Actually, the saddest thing is the large number of fake “reality” shows on the list…”
“Years of Living Dangerously” IS a “reality” show. Warmism is a “reality” science.
Never heard of ‘Bob’s Burgers’ before , having watched a bit it fair to say if you being beaten in the viewing figuers by that you really do have issues.
“new breed of forest fires”
Forest fire breeding between to consenting adult forest fires is moral and legal. Filming the breeding act is ‘hot’. : )
John
Having worked in the entertainment world for some time, I can tell you that if anyone blew that amount of money on a production that got that kind of audience, they’d be fired, rehired, and fired again just to make a point.
That is quite possibly the lowest rating I’ve ever seen or heard about for a new anything. Hell, it’s 85% less than Piers Morgan’s cancelled tripe on CNN, and the only watchers there were empty airport lounges.
When exactly did documentry turn into code word for propaganda? As a kid I used to watch cool documentries on arctic wolves, detailing the social structure of the pack; and stuff like that. Now every documentry I see is just strait up propaganda.
Let me get this straight. The list is for shows on TV?
I agree with other commenters that it was boring. I expected much more from all that talent. Even with questionable content they could have made it more compelling. I generally like science fiction. I did not finish watching the first episode because there was something more entertaining that came on I wanted to see.
Perhaps Trenberth’s missing heat is hiding on Showtime, where no sees it.
I didn’t read all comments so if this was already said sorry.
The .04 is the demo audience not the total audience. Some sites use 18-49, other 25-54. I’m not sure which demo the .04 is referring to. I look at the TVBTN daily cable ratings all the time. So far the movie hasn’t made the top 100 on any day. It airs more than once a week. Just wanted to clarify before some “Doomer” has a fit.
People are getting smart. That, or sick of the whole Climate change narrative of doom & gloom. Most of us grew up with “Climate change”. Known back in the cave days as weather.
Some oldsters like me had to live through Global Cooling in school.
This is just another show extolling the virtues of embracing the Mother Goddess while promoting the Green Religion. Calling people who don’t believe their Mythology “deniers” . This group actually wants people in jail for not worshipping the Planet like they do.
Its also a bid by the UN to transfer wealth made here to other Nations who are not producers because of politics or Islam.
No wonder Bob’s Burgers did so well.
15 years of showing cold temperatures below normal has revealed what most people knew. When has any weatherman been accurate daily, let alone for hundreds of years.
Makes for good taxes though on an essential gas( carbon) for survival.
Tax the air is the cry. Yet on Volcano that went off not long ago spewed more pollution than a centuries of so called clean ups. In fact nothing would change if the human race ceased to exist.
We are not Gods that control Planets.
Pamela Gray says:
April 23, 2014 at 9:03 am
Let me get this straight. The list is for shows on TV?
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The TVBTN link is the top 100 for cable only on Sunday night. They have broadcasts shows on different pages.
Seems their hockey stick is upside down.
Caution! Don’t be too triumphant. I think those ratings are probably hiding in the deep ocean.
Along with a really new type of forest fire.
45,680 households? Yes, but that’s 97% of all TV viewers. In the world.
/sarc
“So let’s just use that number for 2012-2013 of 1,142,000 TV households and multiply by 0.04. We get: 45,680 households viewing “Years of Living Dangerously”.
According to the article, there are actually 114.2 million TV households in America, not 1.142 million. So there were actually 4.568 million households watching “Years of Living Dangerously.” Which is still an anemic number, but still…a website that looks to debunk the “scientific consensus” should make doubly sure to get its math right every time. If I were a liberal troll, I would be having a field day with this error.
REPLY: From the Wiki article: “A single national ratings point represents one percent of the total number, or 1,142,000 households for the 2012–13 season.” The calc was based on 0.04 of a single ratings point, i.e 1.00. If they got a rating value of 1.00, there would be 1,142,000 households viewing the show, not 114.2 million – that value would require a rating of 100, which is impossible to achieve in the TV viewing world. Your value of 4.568 million housholds would be a rating of 4. The number I posted, 45,680 households, is correct.
What I will do is clarify the language to say (in parenthesis):
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.
– Anthony
I just watched part of the so called film, i had to turn it off and go out side to spew up.
An Interesting take: The years of living hypocritically…
http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/sean-long/2014/04/22/years-living-hypocritically-five-alarmist-celebs-and-their-double-standar
People aren’t even downloading it for free from torrentz or cloud sites. In fact one cloud site I visited had comments from users asking them not host the propaganda on the site!
How sweet it is!
ShowBuzz had this printed today on their website regarding the show:
YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY remained at a tiny 0.04 with 1 more episode to air.
If the warmists thought that touting Grimm as turning warmist was going to help their ratings…
didn’t happen.