Oct 11 2007
Pushing Daisies Ratings for “Dummy”
The ratings are in for this week’s episode of PUSHING DAISIES. There was a small dip from last week’s “pie-lette”, but it still won the all important demo. If you love Pushing Daisies be a daisies pusher and tell your friends (and complete strangers on the street) all about it.
Pushing Daisies “Dummy” ratings: 10.07 million
From Media Life Magazine: ABC and NBC shared bragging rights from 8-9 p.m., with game show Deal or No Deal first in total viewers (12.49 million) and second among adults 18-49 (3.1 rating/9 share), and week two of ABC’s Pushing Daisies just the opposite at 10.07 million viewers (#2) and a first-place 3.6/11 in the demo. Compared to its debut one week earlier (Viewers: 13.03 million; A18-49: 4.3/13 on Oct. 3), Pushing Daisies dipped by 2.96 million viewers and 16 percent among adults 18-49. But a winning finish in the demo keeps it in the winner’s circle.
I am concerned! The show had a huge drop and its has a huge budget supposedly. I don’t get it either cause every where I go people talk about this show?
Is it true ABC fired the director after the second episode? Someone posted that at TVGuide.com.
That is not true. Barry Sonnenfeld WILL be directing more episodes when his schedule allows. There’s been a lot of hype over the costs overruns of Pushing Daisies, but a lot of it is just being blown out of proportion.
I am certainly doing my part to help ratings. I tell everyone I know about it, including near-strangers, my sister, people at my son’s preschool, people on other message boards, the guy at the grocery store…seriously, I’m going to get a rep as one of “those women” who is obsessed with a tv show. But I’m OK with that. If I thought it would do any good for me to march up and down the street with the series logo painted on my naked body, I’d consider that, too. But I know that the only thing that would accomplish is a call to the police, and then I wouldn’t be able to watch the show because I’d be sitting on a cell, and then they’d actually be DOWN one viewer, so…I dodged that bullet. But I will still continue my quest to get EVERYONE I know to watch this show. And I will continue to quietly (but harshly) judge the people who don’t watch it.
Isn’t there always a small dip after the first episode because of the people who didn’t like stopped watching? I think we should only get nervous after the next few episodes and it still declines
Michelle, your story was hilarious! I’m all about staging a nude body-painted Pushing Daisies recognitionathon … I mean, I would be, were it not for the whole jail time thing.
I never really understood the “ratings” thing. I mean, I do, and I know it has been explained many times before, but … isn’t this just people who have these “boxes” in their homes to record which shows they watch during the week? I’m still not certain how this symbolizes every single household. Also … do they include viewers in Canada (aka: me)?
In the meantime, I’m doing like the rest of you - getting the word out there. I’m pimping the show big time on my LiveJournal, recruiting online and real-life friends to watch. I even held my own private “viewing party” for friends who hadn’t seen the pie-lette, just to get them to watch from now on. And as if that weren’t enough, I’m dressing up as a daisy for my office Halloween party, so that when people ask me “why a daisy” I can go on and on about the show and how deliriously happy it makes me.
Sadly in Canada our viewership counts for very little in terms of getting programs renewed, and if you don’t have a Nielson diary, it counts for nothing at all. We just have to sit back and hope those south of the border (with Nielson boxes) catch on.
it’s because they went overboard with the quirkiness in this episode! they shoudn’t have done that early in the series! I can no longer count the number of people who’ve completely written off the series because of this episode. dandelion cars, the quirky costumes, the song number… that’s just too much for most people. Few have tolerance for quirkiness like we do.
Thank goodness the third episode maintained the balance between reality and quirky like they did in the pilot.