Posted on 05/19/2015 4:37:26 PM PDT by SMGFan
Sunday night: Two reruns of “I Love Lucy” from the 1950s, colorized (objectionable, but ok whatever) scored the highest total viewers of all scripted shows that night.
“Lucy” had 6.4 million total viewers. That’s almost twice the very high “Mad Men” score of 3.3 million viewers on Sunday. That’s shows with scripts. The Billboard Music Awards had 11 million, and “60 Minutes” had 9 million.
But of all the other shows on TV Sunday night– Dateline, The Simpsons, Battle Creek– Lucy prevailed.
“Lucy” scored twice as many total viewers as Andy Samberg in “Brooklyn Nine Nine.”
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Great show, I’m sorry it’s over.
Relief from the Mad Mess in Washington.....
I saw just a few seconds of it while channel surfing. I did wonder what was going on.
When it was first on, my Mother never liked it. She said it was silly. I sort of agree with her. I thought Fred, Ethel and Desi were all better than Lucy.
It was watchable but that is about it. I sort of thought it was a spin-off of “The Long Long Trailer”.
Everyone knows the country’s best days are years behind it. The number 1 show was actually made 60 years ago, and the number 2 show is a period piece about business life 50 years ago.
My “something is wrong with this” senses are all red lining on this story. I smell manipulated statistics or apples and oranges comparison.
Who aired the I love lucy? Broadcast or cable?
Broadcast when the choices were all of 3 channels.
The Little Ricky Has Superman over for his birthday party is a classic episode..I enjoyed seeing it in color
CBS is broadcast.
I think Lucy was/is hilarious. She was an amazing talent.
Limbaugh spent a LOT of time on mad men. Rush spends a LOT of time on a LOT of TV, but I’ll never forget, ever, how he pretended, ridiculously, to have no idea whatsoever who honey boo boo was. Doctor 2 brains made the same observation.
Not me. Jon Hamm is a libtard nut case, that’s why he’s always on Bill Maher’s show.
I liked Lucy and Ethel working at the chocolate factory.
Mad Men series finale was extended 20 minutes. Booooring. It seemed to drag on and on and on. Draper ends up at a hippy-type commune.
Ha! the grape stomping funny.
I’m actually watching one now, when she tries to sneak cheese on airplane & pretends it’s baby.
I saw Lucille Ball in an old movie and was surprised just how stunning she was when she was young.
The fact that she was a communist did not endear her to me.
I never heard of Mad Men until I heard Rush talking about it today.
See post 11...
I’ve never heard of Mad Men, but I remember loving “I Love Lucy”.
She was not just a comic, she was a remarkable woman.
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