Posted on 06/05/2017 8:53:14 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Almost every year since 2013, Vulture has published a chart illustrating the performance of veteran TV shows during the most recent season. We’ve labeled said charts “depressing” because they’ve consistently shown the vast majority of returning shows — whether they’ve been on the air for two years or two decades — losing ground in the key TV demographic of adults under 50. This season is no exception, and it’s arguably the most depressing year yet for those who follow network-TV trends. Last year, ten broadcast series were either up or flat versus the previous season. This season? Just one network series — ABC’s indestructible The Bachelor — has managed to increase its audience in the demo, with two others (CW’s Jane the Virgin and CBS’s Hawaii Five-O) remaining flat. Everything else on network TV got smaller.
As noted, the fact that most network shows are down is not exactly news: Every chart we’ve done the past four years has shown the same thing. What’s new is just how rare not losing audience has become (there were more than a dozen flat or up shows in 2013) and how quickly the pace of the erosion picked up this season. This year, 27 returning series suffered what we’d define as serious decline — a ratings loss of 25 percent or larger. That’s up from 16 series with similarly significant declines last season. It’s a dramatic spike, to be sure, but also not all that shocking. While some viewers are no doubt abandoning network TV for better offerings on cable or streaming, audiences are also simply consuming TV in dramatically different ways than they did at the start of the decade.
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The shows just aren’t any good. I’m watching old American shows and even Brit shows because I can’t find anything new that I like. Almost finished with Green Wing and up to season 5 of the most recent version of Doctor Who. Rewatched all of Cheers during the last two years. Nothing new can keep me from turning the tv off.
A couple weeks ago Fargo went nasty. We won’t watch it any more.
It should be good tonight!
I used to enjoy “The Closer” and hoped I’d like the spinoff, “Major Crimes”. Absolutely dreadful! The two politically UN-correct cops in Closer were wussified and castrated for Major Crimes. The gay kid who’s a regular also is disgusting.
” Outsiders” has been cancelled; that was interesting.
I believe you’re right. I think they slant the questions toward women, too.
I have also noticed that the questions are a bit easier during the Teachers Tournament.
The last show we followed was "Grimm" and when it went off the air we just never got interested.
DH used to watch O'Really, that is gone. The TV can be off for a week or two now.
The may be good news to the network, but its depressing news for Western Civilization.
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