Season 3: Episode 2 Ratings

Previous week's ratings: EHC - 2.1 million, The Game - 1.91 million viewers


On the surface things might seem ok. Unlike Everybody Hates Chris, The Game held on to it's season premiere ratings for the most part. The reality of the situation is that maintaining the same low ratings is not going to keep this show on the air.

The Game has numerous factors working against it's survival. Priviledged, EHC and The Game are The CW's worst performing shows. If they ever need to make room for new programming one of these shows would have to go. With the network not putting much advertising into the show one can't help but think they want it on the chopping block.

Another problem for The Game is that it's lead-in show, Everybody Hates Chris, is a lower rated show that targets much younger viewers and their parents. EHC is hysterical and I enjoy it, but just isn't a good match for the very adult themed The Game. They actually need to make two new sitcoms to match with them and they don't necessarily have to be black shows. One has to be youth oriented to run with EHC in the 8:00 hour and the other one needs to be adult oriented to team up with The Game at 9:00. Oh yeah, and they need to be realistic CW. Not the rich, pretty, skinny, white teen shows that 1% of the population can relate to that you've been going with here lately.

The network itself is The Game's biggest problem. In a pefect world, the show would go to another network where it can get some exposure. On all of the other major networks about the lowest ratings a prime time show will get is 5.5 million viewers. The two highest rated CW shows, Smallville and ANTM, barely break 4 million viewers on a great night. Oddly enough the now cancelled Smackdown that used to air on Fridays was consistantly at 4 million viewers or more. I guess ratings don't mean much to The CW if the majority of the viewers are not teenaged girls. I just don't know how much longer the network can survive and it would be a crime if The Game got dragged down with it. Mara, shop your show girl!

For now we have to keep fighting for this show. We have to keep those letters going to The CW asking for promotion for the show and even demanding more diversity in their lineup. Teenaged girls make up a very small portion of America. They need to fire the high ranking pimply faced kid that keeps taking the network down the path to nowhere and hire someone who knows how to run a network. If the person is not young then they have no excuse at all for this network repeating the same failing formula over and over again.

Previous week's ratings: EHC - 2.1 million, The Game - 1.91 million viewers