The clear, near zero, lack of interest in this show should be a clear signal to the Obama administration regarding their global warming agenda – nobody is buying it.
We wrote about this before, how reruns of the animated show Bob’s Burgers beat this multi-million dollar budget climate disaster epic.
It isn’t getting any better, like global warming for the last 17 years, the ratings of ‘Years of Living Dangerously’ is flat.
ShowBuzz writes about the Sunday, April 27th TV ratings:
YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY remained at a tiny 0.04 with 1 more episode to air.
Source: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/the-sked-sunday-ratings-29.html
And the final episode, which aired Sunday May 4th:
On Showtime, NURSE JACKIE and CALIFORNICATION were again at 0.2, but that’s somewhat misleading, since JACKIE was at 0.24 and CALIFORNICATION at 0.16. Both towered over the last episode of YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, which wound up its run at a steady 0.04.
Source: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/the-sked-sunday-ratings-30.html
After the Obama Administration released their National Climate Assessment report this week, ‘Years of Living Dangerously’, which like the report was designed to scare the bejeezus out of people and spur action, it seems fitting that this TV show tanked. Nobody except the climate faithful are listening or watching. The show is now off the air on Sundays and will switch to Mondays. The last five episodes are scheduled to air on Monday nights, May 12, 19 and 26, and June 2 and 9 at 8:00pm ET/PT. on Showtime.
Now with all the hype, gloom and doom from the National Climate Assessment report this week, it will be interesting to see if it gains any viewership.
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I have no access to it, since I live far far away.
But I would bet a $100 bill that, if skeptics are taken out of the viewership, ratings would be less than half of that.
The funny part is that they really cannot believe this media push isn’t working – the insight it would take for them to honestly understand why their propaganda isn’t working is totally and completely outside their worldview.
“multi-million dollar budget climate disaster epic.”
This is an error, it should read: multi-million dollar budget climate epic disaster.
Don’t worry, they will retroactively adjust all the other shows ratings downwards so that they can show their show doing well.
It hasn’t hit Australia’s screens yet. Maybe it never will.
“The last five episodes are scheduled to air on Monday nights…”
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Don’t we have enough reasons to hate Mondays already?
It was 31 degrees here last night ,two years in a row that seeding will be late into the spring and the wonder why we don’t believe.
I means that, as I suspected, imdb is “massaging” the ratings:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2963070/
Folks, there’s a lot of choir-preaching here. Let’s keep in touch with the wider world. Just to break into our own developing echo chamber, please note that IMDb gives this pot of poop an 8.5 rating. What’s more, there are four reviews at the moment. One, the first, nails it hard, especially on the subject of hypocrisy. But the other three are rapturous.
We still have a long way to go. Not yet the moment to relax, still less to be triumphal.
(Even though it feels so good).
The spin will be, “Our viewers were only acting responsibly by not watching the show, because it would create more greenhouse gases.” 😉
There have been a few climate films now of doom and gloom> TV and films means entertainment, that’s why people watch and the worse the economy the more people tune into it hence the golden days for the film industry back in the 1930s.
Who wants to watch some rich people banging on about why the earth is doomed when they have heard it a million times and now seen it is not happening.
I would rather see upbeat films about, hmm let me see, how poverty is being eradicated-
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/17/aid-trade-reduce-acute-poverty
“Some of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor, according to a groundbreaking academic study which has taken a new approach to measuring deprivation. The report, by Oxford University’s poverty and human development initiative, predicts that countries among the most impoverished in the world could see acute poverty eradicated within 20 years if they continue at present rates”
I agree with Paul (May 8, 2014 at 6:29 pm) – you should all be ashamed of yourselves.
As Aldous Huxley said, “A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”
This one must have come REALLY sincerely, from deep, deep down in Jimmy’s soul. Do you suppose he’s ready to sell his enormous chunk of Malibu County seafront as an example to the rest of us?
Now with all the hype, gloom and doom from the National Climate Assessment report this week, it will be interesting to see if it gains any viewership.
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The press made a big deal of the stupid Climate Assessment, but regular folks simply ignored it as yet more Washington noise and hot air.
I don’t think moving the show from Sunday to Monday is going to help it, and I predict even lower ratings. People are getting wise to the coordinated propaganda, and the media are shooting themselves in the foot by doing it.
It’s going to be the nothing-fries with the nothing-burger of the all-night congressional blabfest that those fools tried a few weeks ago.
I love the smell of political desperation in the morning.
I think you should all be a little kinder. It is notoriously difficult to judge the public’s taste when it comes to fiction.
This is a sure sign to Al Gore not to make another Inconvenient Truth. I vaguely remember recently seeing an article where he was reconsidering this idea. The Inconvenient Truth is that Warmists are in a minority. You know this by the ratings above and their ever louder screeching and arm waving. The jig is almost over folks. If they can get action this year they really should give up.
In the meantime 17 years of a temperature standstill, Antarctica sea ice near record highs and climbing, Arctic sea ice and volume gained a small bump upwards last year, multi-year ice slightly up, freezing winter in the USA etc. How the heck can you get people worked up about global warming when there is none?
@Richards in Vancouver
Yep, the rating is high, but suspiciously so. The reviews, however, you should read again.
I think they should air the last 5 episodes between 2am and 3am on the second Sunday in March for the next 5 years. It will get a higher rating there.
How much CO2 did they emit flying their ‘correspondents’ with associated film crews all over the globe in their effort to tell us how bad it is to keep emitting CO2?
And from the questions I saw on facebook when Ian Somerhalder had his Q&A, most people didn’t care about climate change, they just wanted to watch their favorite star. So my guess is that at least half of the viewers were watching to see their idols and didn’t give a woot about climate change.
It is worse than we thought.
“Groundbreaking documentary” = “we’ve hit bottom and busted out the picks and shovels”.
It is good to see this fail.
Jimbo says: May 9, 2014 at 3:55 am
This is a sure sign to Al Gore not to make another Inconvenient Truth.
Actually AIT is what made me look for some sanity that concurred with what I had read in the forty years prior to AIT, and I found WUWT, thank you Anthony!!!
harkin says: May 9, 2014 at 4:50 am
“Groundbreaking documentary” = “we’ve hit bottom and busted out the picks and shovels”.
Sounds like ‘Shovel Ready Jobs’.
maybe put it out under comedy and re- voice over,
So something along the lines of –
“here is Arnold Schwarzenegger, he is going to spend the day with fire fighters, he thinks climate change is the cause of more fire, let’s take a look at how easily a mega rich sap gets taken in by his mate “Beach front Gore”
well I am sure others can actually make it funny but add your own voice over.
Hey Arnold they put CO2 in fire EXTINGUISHERS. Shut up and dive off in your hypocritical humvee.
Most people I have talked to think blaming every weather event on climate change is pretty silly. It’s like finding a broken tree branch and claiming a Big Foot did it. Isn’t it just possible that broken tree branches happen all the time?
Latitude says:
May 8, 2014 at 5:34 pm
OK, now this is not fair….
…they were up against reruns of the Golden Girls
K you win on this one ;>)