#TV ratings

[blueonwrestling]

For anyone who truly really cares about TV ratings when it comes to wrestling, via the Wrestling Observer Radio

"The top 4 entertainment shows on cable this past week were all wrestling shows (Smackdown, RAW, Dynamite and NXT). First time since 1999."

Pretty big for all of wrestling lads.

[all-ai-ladies]

Fight Club

The ancient Greeks held wrestling and boxing competitions in the nude, so in the age of Trump II when any kind of sanity has clearly left the building we should perhaps revive that - for women too of course!!

Throw in a few celeb fighters and I think huge ratings would be guaranteed 🤩!!

[fshoulders]

TV’s self-inflicted ratings are so wild. We started watching the medical drama The Pitt and I happened to notice the warning on the first ep listed only “mild nudity” (as it happened, a male mental patient running away from camera naked.) This seemed weird for a medical show.

My siblings in Gaia, there was a DEGLOVED FOOT on this show. Medical procedures and injuries and bodily fluids of all kinds. F-bombs, I think. But I cannot emphasize enough that there was a degloved foot, rather prominently, on the screen. TV ratings are laughable!

[leothil]

Can I just say. As someone who likes looking at ratings data. That the presence or absence of one (1) character as good as never impacts the ratings this much. Not positively and not negatively. When a show experiences a major drop in its rating from one week to the next it's due to outside interference 99.9% of the time, most often a sports game. If we had the quarterly ratings at hand we might be able to see something, like if a statistically significant amount of the audience got bored and turned off their tv:s during the same scene, but for a procedural show like 9-1-1 that's pretty unheard of.

[kingoftieland]

X-Men: The Animated Series TOOK SOME TIME to find its footing! ⏲️

[ironworked]

Oh, that's good!

[movieinonesentence]

Skam (Norway)

9/10

I need to convince everyone in my life to watch this show so I can obsess over Isak and Sana with them.

[rotblume]

Okay, so, I'm not even sure how earnest I am about this, but .. we all know how, usually, movies and tv-shows and such are rated for their potential sexual &/ violent content, right? That there exist these phrases like "approved for all audiences" or "viewer discretion advised" ..

and the one thing where I always thought they should post trigger warnings but never did were nature&/animal documentaries, because of my arachnophobia .. like I've got zero problems with snakes or crocodiles or sharks, but show me a spider and I'd get a jump scare so bad that I'd accidentally throw snacks across the room or choke on&/spit out my drink

please note: this is not an invite for y'all to post pictures of spiders in the comments and give me a minor heart attack

anyway, I just thought, maybe there should exist a similar rating system for content with anthropomorphic animals, like, inform viewers above 16/14/12 whatev, that there'll be anthro characters, especially if they've got attractive personalities, because it is seriously ridiculous how attracted I am to some fictional (animated) animals and shifters and I'd like some warning next time, please and thank you, it's already enough with humanoid aliens and androids

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[kirby-is-blackhole]

Why are things rated for fear?

I'm sitting here watching Star Trek: Prodigy and it's rated TV-Y7 for fantasy violence and fear. Why do we rate things for fear?

Who cares if a five-year-old got scared because someone almost died! They can cry about it to their parents, that's what parents are for sometimes

[aro-pancake]

Well... Here we go.

I just saw that Velma has a second season coming up and... WHAT THE FUCK?

At first, I was hyped up for a new Scooby Doo show. Then we got whatever that was.

All the visibility I saw on that show was bad. All the reviews, everything everyone said about it. No one had a single good thing to be honestly said, and the few that did were paid off.

What kind of chicken shit someone has instead of brains to get established, beloved characters and... Do that?

I think that if they created new characters, it would be better, but no. They decided to go with the Scooby Gang. And remove the main character, that is the lovable Great Dane who's scared of his own shadow!

So, that's getting a new season, while actually good shows, such as Inside Job, get cancelled for? No apparent reason?

(the rant on the death of adult animation will come soon, don't worry.)

So, yeah. Apparently, they can't differentiate between good and bad visibility, especially in recent times when people bother to spend more energy to complain than to say good things. (And yes, I'm also guilty of that.)

[positively--speculative]

While my optimism for IWTV getting a third season is cautious, I'm still optimistic.

Yes, ratings play a role in show renewal, BUT it is my understanding that this is just one part of what influences the decision. Now, I'm not an expert, but AMC is kind of known to attract niche audiences for different shows. Also? Shows don't always get a strong following in the first one or two seasons and will sometimes start with a smaller following and gain traction in the third or fourth season. If a show is well reviewed and the network sees promise, they're likely more willing to give the show a chance to take off.

Yes, The Walking Dead is big and attracted a big audience, but I think it's the exception to the rule with AMC. Again, I'm not an expert, but AMC is not NBC, ABC, or FOX. They are not a part of the "basic cable" package. Most people with a TV have access to the listed networks so those networks are more competitive and more likely to drop shows with lower ratings. I think there's a little wiggle room for networks like AMC.

Now, please take my take with a grain of salt. Again, I'm not an expert. But I don't think we should be worried about ratings alone. However, there are other things we can do to support the show to get AMC's attention--post about it, tweet about it if you still have Twitter, engage and support content creators you feel comfortable supporting. Again, ratings are only ONE part of what influences a network to renew.

[racingnews]

NASCAR TV Ratings: Nashville Superspeedway (June 2025) Link: https://racingnews.co/2025/06/04/nascar-tv-ratings-nashville-superspeedway-june-2025/

[miriam-heddy]

Poll: 9-1-1 ABC Gets ~ 10 Million Cross-Platform Viewers An Episode. That’s a pretty big “General Audience.”

[ironworked]

Uhm, this doesn't bode well for Rescue: Hi Surf

we'll have to see if it steadies at 0.17 and 2m, but I have my doubts (eps 2 and 3 were against repeats of NCIS); also it has to be expensive, and look at cancelled Lonestar's numbers:

They're better. On a 5th season. And it airs before RHS!

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Brilliant Minds is doing decent numbers, but predictably behind One Chicago.

will it be renewed? it'll depend on how many scripted shows they want, I guess.

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Not enough data to say anything at all about the rest (other than Matlock had a great premiere)

[movieinonesentence]

The Summer I Turned Pretty

5/10

Brainwashed me into finding Chris Briney attractive and I couldn’t tell you how.

[recentlyheardcom]

World Series 2024 TV Ratings Are the Best in 7 Years

The 2024 World Series goes in the books as the most watched Fall Classic since 2017. The Los Angeles Dodgers completed their five-game series win over the New York Yankees with 7-6 win Wednesday. Fox Sports outlets (the broadcast network, Fox Deportes and streaming services) averaged 18.6 million viewers for the game, also a seven-year high for a World Series game five. The main Fox broadcast…