"Plus TVBytheNumbers is now listing Smash as "Certain to be renewed"!!!"

Oh frabjous day, calloo! callay! he shortled in his joy. Please excuse excessive chortling but this is now the first thing I do after feeding the cats on Tuesday mornings--check the Smash ratings. So if they went up on a rerun week, maybe they will at least stabilize next week, which has kind of been the goal all along, no? Get into some kind of groove and stay there? I can't imagine what they're going to do next year if they work out all the kinks in Marilyn this year, but that's not my problem, it's Theresa Rebeck's. By that time, regular viewers will be so invested in the characters they won't care what they're doing. I hope.
 

And when you take into consideration that a lot of people watch later via DVR, or On Demand, or some of the sites that show episodes that I don't even know about, PLUS all the people watching misc. snippets because the previews  and promos are everywhere, this show must be getting all kinds of  watchers who don't even register officially. The awareness level is pretty high, kind of like asking how many people have actually seen Santa Claus--but everyone knows who he is. God, my mind is going... 

wow. thanks for the update

Boston #s for last night

HH

6.5 Rating and 12 Share

18-49 Demo

3.4 Rating and a 9 share

It was second to the Bachelor After The Rose. Just as much as I have no idea why people like DWTS I can't for the life of me understand why folks like The Bachelor. Still good consistant #s for Smash

Very solid consistant #s for last night nationally. Even up against stronger competition it went up a tenth from the finals last week.

I think it is not a stretch at all but more like a certainty that Smash will get renewed for next season. I believe the announcement may come fairly soon actually considering this is the last week of shooting and they will want to lock folks in for season 2 if they aren't already.

uplink, the actors are on contract, so they're already locked in, thus NBC doesn't have to make an announcement soon because of that. But March through May is about the time that most renewals and cancellations are announced, so I would expect to start seeing such announcements in the next few weeks.

And the numbers were down from last week, though they may adjust in the finals. The demo dropped about .3

I'm trying to figure out how to find these figures and tvbythenumbers was the first thing I found, although navigating the site proved a bit challenging.

"NBC again won the night with adults 18-49 and total viewers led by The Voice, but its season low 5.1 adults 18-49 rating may have been whacked by Daylight Savings Time too, it was down 18% vs. a 6.2 rating last week. The half hour ratings for The Voice were: 4.5, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4. Smash fell to a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating, down 11% vs. a 2.7 rating last week."

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/03/13/tv-ratings-monday-the-voice-alcatraz-hit-series-lows-the-bachelor-falls-to-finale-low/124197/

Can we say by this time they've fallen into a fairly steady groove of somewhere midway between 2-3 with viewership of around 7 million? Not counting people who catch it at a later date or DVR it for later viewing.  

Groucho, go to the TVBythe numbers home page and it is updated throughout the day. Overnights usually come in around 11:30 am eastern time and the finals sometimes around 5pm

tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/

Posted By dalki on 13 Mar 2012 11:12 AM

uplink, the actors are on contract, so they're already locked in, thus NBC doesn't have to make an announcement soon because of that. But March through May is about the time that most renewals and cancellations are announced, so I would expect to start seeing such announcements in the next few weeks.

And the numbers were down from last week, though they may adjust in the finals. The demo dropped about .3

 

True the actors are but I'm also talking writers, production staff etc. They don't sign those 7 year deals like many actors do.  The sooner the announcement is made the better to keep the staff they want to keep. But there is also a PR aspect to announcing earlier for the bigger "hits". Some shows have been renewed already. Let's face it. Smash is a top 2-3 show for NBC right now so I would really expect them to announce it soon. I expectthe "upfront" in May to be heavy for Smash, touting it as a big hit for the network.

Also you are righ about the #s. I forgot that it went up big against repeats last week and was thinking about the last week of sweeps.

Posted By groucho on 13 Mar 2012 01:39 PM
I used that link and clicked on the top story, which took me to where I was the last time. The first time I tried it, I tried searching the site by typing something in their search cel and that ws very confusing. Does it show ratings for the previous day every day? What if you want to look up something from, say, the week before? Or two days before?

Click on the "More Ratings" tab and then the subcatagories will show up like Broadcast Overnights and Broadcast finals. Then you scroll through till you find the day you want.

Okay, here it is. Not spectacular but pretty steady. NBC was second for the entire evening, after ABC, and pretty much ahead in the 18-49 category, if I'm reading everything right. It looks almost like one of those horse races where all 3 horses' heads are right together, except one nostril is flared out beyond the others. Total viewership down from around 7 to 6.67? I think they said The Voice took a bit of a hit and it seems to still carry Smash with it to some degree.

10:00 CBS Hawaii Five-0 2.5/6 9.14
ABC Castle 2.4/6 11.86
NBC Smash 2.3/6 6.67
 

Here's the link, go double check me

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ws/125119/

WOW !!! That's Great !!.

WTH? The numbers keep getting better every time I read something. But in the day of VCR's and DVR's etc. it makes sense to know who's watching even in the days after airing. Even though people can FF through commercials, so advertisers might not be as impressed, it still tells you something, doesn't it? Besides, On Demand makes you sit through at least part of the commercials, although not quite as many as watching it first-run.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118051793

There's more but this is specifically what I was talking about:

"Nurturing "Smash" has been NBC's primary focus this season, as the Peacock lavished the show with a generous marketing budget and the best launch pad on its sked, the Monday 10 p.m. slot following "The Voice." It ranks as NBC's top drama in the 18-49 demo, averaging 9.6 million viewers and a 3.4 rating/9 share in the demo, according to Nielsen data that includes full-week DVR playback where applicable. "

NBC ahead in the 18-49 demo, which seems to be the biggie to advertisers, although lagging in total viewers. But its numers seem to be pretty consistent, even if not great. I guess we don't need to obsess quite as much over this now.

10:00PM ABC Castle 2.4 6 12.150
NBC Smash 2.2 6 6.355
CBS Hawaii Five-0 -R 1.6 4 6.566

Scoreboard (this did not carry over quite right, but NBc is the first set of numbers) 
                                              nbc     abc     cbs       ?       fox         cw 
Adults 18-49: Rating/Share 3.7/10 2.9/8   1.9/5  1.5/4   1.5/4   0.4/1
Adults 18-34: Rating/Share 2.9/9  1.5/5    1.1/3   1.5/5  1.0/3   0.4/1
Total Viewers (million)         9.978 15.794 6.386 3.656 4.728 0.949