----Nothing good can be said about this week’s show. The overall rating of the show was a 1.8 [29,884 viewers] making it the second lowest rating of the year. This was coming off last week’s second highest of the year. This happened pretty much the same earlier this year when they scored a 4.1 and the next week they lost 30,000 viewers. This show did the same. You have to go into producing EVERY show trying to put on the best show possible, so when there are a lot of people watching like last week, then they will return to watch it.
----There are two other bad trends of the show. For the last three weeks, the program has lost over 20,000 in one quarter of the show. All three shows have had over 50,000 people turn it off from start to finish. The last three weeks the show’s highest quarter has been the first quarter. As one vet in the business asked me this week, “Doesn’t show suppose to GROW???” The first quarter being your highest quarter just tells you that you had people tuning in, but they seen it was going to be same crap, so they just turned it off. This would be a death for any other TV show.
----It is really sad because this group had three really good shows in a row and seemed to be on a roll at bringing back the crowd. They must get over all of the talent and keep consentient storylines. Long term planning of angles and shows for weeks in advance. But, we all know that doesn’t happen, when Corey Maclin usually books the shows that morning. I really hope this doesn't get any of the guys heat, but the first thing I would do to revamp the show with Corey being joined by another announcer [like Michael Ward, Brian Thompson or Kimble Winstead] and hire either Derrick King or Bill Dundee as the booker.
- Johnny Dotson vs. Poker Face - The Spellbinder vs. Chris Neal
1st Quarter – 2.9 [48,017 viewers]
-Hollywood Jimmy/Grady Watson angle
-Interview w/ Jerry Lawler
2cnd quarter – 1.5 [25,687 viewers] [-22330 viewers]
-Too Cool Two vs. Tattoo & Dustin Starr
3rd Quarter – 1.3 [20,483 viewers] [-5204 viewers]
-Agent Blue, Agent Green, & Agent Yellow vs. Sam Shaw, Cameron Valentine, Chris Lexx
-Mr. Hughes vs. The Posse (Handicap Match)
4th Quarter 1.5 [24,848 viewers] [+4365 viewers]
12 Week Average – 2.6 – 43,889 viewers
12 Week High – 3.8 = 63,966 – 6.23.07
12 Week Low – 1.6 = 26,862 viewers – 5.05.07
Growth from start to finish [–22,169 viewers]
What was Memphis watching?? Channel 3 News and Saturday Night Live 7.4 [123,735 viewers]
