[TV orNotTV] Holmes' debut numbers below predecessor

2013-10-30 Thread Bob in Jersey
TheWrap: 407k viewers, 245k in the prime adult demo; George Lopez' final week managed 424k / 269k. Denizens of this list have already weighed in as commenters. http://www.thewrap.com/pete-holmes-show-debuts-lopez-ratings/ B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this

Re: [TV orNotTV] Holmes' debut numbers below predecessor

2013-10-30 Thread David Bruggeman
orNotTV] Holmes' debut numbers below predecessor TheWrap: 407k viewers, 245k in the prime adult demo; George Lopez' final week managed 424k / 269k. Denizens of this list have already weighed in as commenters. http://www.thewrap.com/pete-holmes-show-debuts-lopez-ratings/ B -- -- -- -- TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] Holmes' debut numbers below predecessor

2013-10-30 Thread Tom Wolper
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 5:30 PM, David Bruggeman bru...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm ratings illiterate, but how would the fact that Holmes is 30 minutes, and Lopez was an hour, affect the comparison? The conventional wisdom is that an hour late night show loses audience in the second half hour. So

Re: [TV orNotTV] Holmes' debut numbers below predecessor

2013-10-30 Thread David Bruggeman
From: Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Holmes' debut numbers below predecessor People who write about like to use ratings without context to set up comparisons. That makes sense

Re: [TV orNotTV] Holmes' debut numbers below predecessor

2013-10-30 Thread Tom Wolper
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:19 PM, David Bruggeman bru...@yahoo.com wrote: Based strictly on the size of his set, which could probably fit into the old Lopez Tonight space 2 or 3 times, I suspect The Pete Holmes Show is substantially cheaper to produce. While Holmes does rely on pre-taped