Posted on 01/05/2005 8:51:23 AM PST by lindor
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amid a chorus of protests from child-adoption advocates and sneers from critics, the general reaction of viewers to the controversial Fox special "Who's Your Daddy?" seemed to be "Who Cares?"
The tear-soaked 90-minute special, featuring an attractive young woman picking her biological father from a lineup filled out with impostors, proved to be a ratings flop, according to preliminary figures on Tuesday from Nielsen Media Research.
The Fox show drew a mere 6.3 million viewers, ranking fourth in its Monday night time slot against competing broadcasts on CBS, ABC and NBC. "Daddy" also trailed its Big Three rivals in ratings for its target audience of viewers aged 18 to 49, the group most prized by advertisers.
The low ratings reveal a trend-the stupider and tackier reality shows aren't doing well. While higher quality reality shows like The Amazing Race are growing in popularity from earlier years, the worse shows aren't catching on. It shows that viewers will watch reality shows but with limits and do have some taste.
The networks will get the message. It's all about the viewer numbers and ad money.
Kinda like an NBA game without the basketball.
Say, did you hear about the show where people guess which Indiana Pacers player is their father?
It's called Hoosier Daddy.
Very true. I'm sure tonight's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT MODEL SEARCH will be tacky and offensive. I plan to watch it all the way through just to get a clear idea of exactly how much.
In the MSM and Hollywood, there's sleaze for money and sleaze for the sake of defining deviancy downward, or what is known as "pushing the envelope." In the case of Murdoch, I believe it's sleaze for money. So if it doesn't sell, he'll stop doing it. In the case of other, more perverted bosses, it's sleaze for the sake of spreading deviancy and making things like abortion and the gay lifestyle acceptable. They'll keep doing it even if it doesn't pay.
It's well known that G movies make more money than R movies, but most Hollywood bosses just keeps on making R movies because they want to pervert their audiences.
So the good news is that Fox will probably try some other version of stupid pet tricks that does better in the ratings. Now if it was Eisner and Disney, they would stick to it for at least a year, the way they did with "Nothing Sacred," which was at the very bottom of the ratings for a full year before they finally dropped it.
Good to hear, this show sounded beyond poor taste. And that's saying alot for the Fox Network.
What channel is that on, so that you may rest assured others out there are being just as offended as you are?
I absolutely love how you are able to discern the difference in motivations between Fox and all the other networks.
Fox is the ONLY one dedicated to making money, and all the others live only to see us wallow in our own perversion. Money means nothing to them, they're bankrolled by evil incarnate, so money means nothing to them.
Where am I supposed to put the sarcasm tag?
That would be NBC.
LoL...
Thank god... I mean of course I think the whole premise is so pathetic, but so are alot of other things so no biggie.
But I am SO SICK of 'reality' TV... some of it is good, some it if acceptable for rerun syndication and the other half if useless.
I'm ready for TV execs to get back to work and WRITE THINGS... where are all the sitcom comedies? NO... its all about the 30th revision of CSI or Law&Order drama shows, or stupid reality tv dating shows, or anything reality really.
If I want "reality" TV, I watch the ULTIMATE in Reality TV.. that is REALITY.. the News. I see no use for 'manufactured' "reality" drama when there is so much already existing.
>>If I want "reality" TV, I watch the ULTIMATE in Reality TV.. that is REALITY.. the News. <<
Boy, you haven't been paying attention lately, have you. :^D *poke in ribs*
Like any and all TV, if you don't like it, don't watch it.
I watched the last episode, and I didn't think it was offensive- melodramatic soap opera, yes. But in the end everyone was happy and it was actually an interesting story of 2 kids who gave up their baby for adoption at the council of their parents. The young man shipped out with the Marines to 'Nam and each went on with their lives. The father had much regret over the years and it was sweet to see the reunion.
I think they are to be commended for having the baby and at least trying to do the right thing. Of course it would have been better if none of that had happened- but in light of so many kids today opting for abortion maybe it'll make someone think twice.
Anyway it's really not worth the fuss.
My opinion of a really stupid show is Fear Factor, which should just be renamed to Gross-out Factor.
LOL!
>>The networks will get the message. It's all about the viewer numbers and ad money.<<
Sorry, but it's not. It's about the promotion of a world view and an attitude. It's about appealling to affluent, single 18-to-35-year-olds, and encouraging them to be drunk, amoral consumerists.
People need food. So there's no point in advertising beef, milk, potatoes, vegetables. Television is paid for by people trying to make sure you buy what rational Christians would not buy. Sure, Beef and Milk have a few memorable ads, but ointments for vaginal yeast infections vastly outnumber both of them.
If you're a responsible father of teenagers, it's worse than that they simply don't care whether you watch their shows. They want to make sure you don't! They want you to be so turned off by their idiocy that you don't see what they are trying to sell to your children.
Nobody craps on reality shows like the simpsons. Animal survivor, touch the stove, who wants to marry an internet billionaire...no wait millionaire.....no wait now he's broke. Priceless
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