American Idol premiere drops in ratings
American Idol returned to television Tuesday, but not as many viewers seem to be tuning in this season. Still, Idol remains at the top of the list.
Tuesday’s premiere, which focused on auditions in Philadelphia, had only 33.4 million viewers tuning in, down 4 million viewers from the first show, according to reports from Nielsen Media Research. In a year when a writers strike in Hollywood has been putting a dark cloud over the future of television, Idol still is the most-watched show on television (sports excluded).
In fact, more people tuned in to Tuesday’s episode on Fox than were watching ABC, CBS, NBC and the CW combined. But, considering the writers strike, I thought ratings would be up. Still, 33.4 million is not reason enough to stop producing a show, right?
January 17th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Of course not, plus everyone wants to see Simon. He is sexy face.