RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Once Upon A Time’, ’666 Park Ave’ And ‘The Good Wife’ Up

COMMENTS (10)

• Actually, The Good Wife was slotted for the 9:30 hour last night, but football pushed it’s start time to nearly 10 p.m. Still, let’s hope this ratings bump convinces CBS to keep it there. Seems like a sensible move.

  Comment by Stephen — Monday October 22, 2012 @ 9:50am PDT  Reply to this post

• the over run was 26 minutes because of the double header. Remember, CBS scheduled primetime to start at 7:30 on days of double headers!

  Comment by Daniel — Monday October 22, 2012 @ 9:50am PDT  Reply to this post

• Now that Good Wife has enough eps for syndication – you have to wonder why CBS would consider keeping it around after this season? The emmy attention has moved on, save for Juliana’s nom. Time to refresh and find another legal drama that will pull in both male & female auds. I was a big fan in the first 2 seasons, but creatively, this show is now on the decline.

  Comment by Syndie — Monday October 22, 2012 @ 10:18am PDT  Reply to this post

  • I’m going to have to disagree with everything you wrote. I think the show is hands-down still the best drama on broadcast network television. The acting is just leaps and bounds better than just about anything else on CBS, ABC, NBC, the CW, or FOX. While all the new dramas this season have slowly been deleted from my DVR as one-by-one they didn’t live up to the hype, The Good Wife continues to be a show that my wife and I look forward to watching every week. And I say that as a person who normally *hates* television legal dramas.

    Comment by Mr_Explosion — Monday October 22, 2012 @ 1:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Nope, this season is off to a great start – last night’s was the best yet. There’s no creative decline. My only complaint is that the cast is so big now that some characters (Cary) get too little screen time. But there’s no better-written or acted show on network TV right now. Hopefully when CBS swing the axe, a cable network will swoop in.

    Comment by Jark — Monday October 22, 2012 @ 4:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Thank you CBS for the viewer alert email letting us know when the game is going to run over. Thanks to the email, I extended the record time on my dvr and didn’t miss a thing on The Mentalist!

  Comment by carolinagirl — Monday October 22, 2012 @ 10:21am PDT  Reply to this post

• Tonight promises to be a ratings mashup what with the debate (which will be the lowest watched of the three as foreign policy is the alleged topic), MLB deciding NLCS game, and NFL plus other cable competish, not to mention time shifting to get around some of this. Don’t envy analysts trying to quantify it all, Nielsen’s not withstanding.

  Comment by EK — Monday October 22, 2012 @ 12:54pm PDT  Reply to this post

• There are too many quality TV shows competing on Sunday evenings. It’s so foolish !! The Good Wife should move back to it’s old time slot. Sure, I have a DVR to record and watch On Demand occasionally, but it takes me considerable time to juggle recordings, especially on football nights. I wind up missing some favorite shows because my cable provider Comcast isn’t offering it’s customers a DVR that records more than 2 shows in a time slot.

  Make it easier for us to watch your shows… not harder. Besides, if I have to record a show I’ll wind up fast forwarding through the ads when I watch, which can’t please the commercial interests.

  Comment by MimiB — Monday October 22, 2012 @ 2:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I agree with Stephen, they need to pick a time slot and leave it there. I realize that sports is very profitable for the network, but how about they move football to an earlier time slot, making room for the good wife.

  Comment by gray haired old lady — Monday October 22, 2012 @ 2:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I can’t stand the good wife this season. Yuck.

  Comment by Mike — Tuesday October 23, 2012 @ 5:01am PDT  Reply to this post