NO SOPHOMORE SLUMP FOR LAST SEASON'S #1 NEW SHOW
"Person of Interest" Now a Top Five Series
Remains Network Television's Fastest-Growing Drama
CBS's PERSON OF INTEREST, last season's #1 new program, is concluding its sophomore season with year-to-year growth in viewers and demos and ranks as primetime's fifth-most-watched program, according to Nielsen most current ratings.
This season, PERSON OF INTEREST is television's fastest-growing drama, gaining +1.88 million viewers from last season. Among adults 18-49, PERSON OF INTEREST is averaging 3.5/10, up +3% from last year.
With an average audience of 16.15 million viewers, PERSON OF INTEREST places ahead of both editions of "American Idol" and "The Voice," "Dancing with the Stars" and "Modern Family," among others. The only non-CBS program with more viewers is "Sunday Night Football."
Source: CBS
"Person of Interest" Now a Top Five Series
Remains Network Television's Fastest-Growing Drama
CBS's PERSON OF INTEREST, last season's #1 new program, is concluding its sophomore season with year-to-year growth in viewers and demos and ranks as primetime's fifth-most-watched program, according to Nielsen most current ratings.
This season, PERSON OF INTEREST is television's fastest-growing drama, gaining +1.88 million viewers from last season. Among adults 18-49, PERSON OF INTEREST is averaging 3.5/10, up +3% from last year.
With an average audience of 16.15 million viewers, PERSON OF INTEREST places ahead of both editions of "American Idol" and "The Voice," "Dancing with the Stars" and "Modern Family," among others. The only non-CBS program with more viewers is "Sunday Night Football."
Source: CBS
Awesome and I already knew this. It's an awesome show and I love POI
ReplyDeletePoI deserves this. This show is just amazing.
ReplyDeleteHELL YES!!! Way to go POI!! And of course, some folks over at TVBTN are ripping holes in this press release.
ReplyDeleteCooooooool POI is the best show in the moment.
ReplyDeleteNo thanks to CBS' inane scheduling! POI is an awesome show, I bet numbers would be higher if the scheduling wasn't this bad. One episode per 4 weeks is not a good way to treat any show.
ReplyDeleteGreat. Stupidest scheduling ever!
ReplyDeleteNice to see a show that deserves good ratings actually increasing as it ages!
ReplyDeleteSo rare these days.
And there's a good reason the show is so successful! It's absolutely fantastic!
ReplyDeleteA show that truly deserves such great ratings. So happy. :D
ReplyDeleteI love POI but the numbers they spin are ridiculous. I think these are
ReplyDeleteSD+7 or something ratings, not sure, but POI is averaging a 3.0 this
season in the relevant measure, not a 3.5. Also, Once Upon a Time was by
far last year’s biggest new drama in the measure that actually matters,
averaging a 3.27 while POI averaged a 2.87. If we also count comedies,
New Girl, 2 Broke Girls and Rob all beat it last year too. I am not
bashing the show, I am a fan, I just think this is very misleading. The
other day I also saw an article saying that The Bibble was now beating
The Walking Dead, as if it was anywhere near close… I don’t understand
why people still look at the number of viewers (or whatever measure it
is being considered here)
I haven't really watched of POI but perhaps I should. I haven't truly enjoyed a real procedural for years and CBS's policy of supporting only crime shows that never change and generic sitcoms has made me watch them less and less, in fact during the 2012-2013 season I haven't watched any show on CBS. What makes POI different than CSI or NCIS other than the very very very very small sci-fi element.
ReplyDeleteFor me it's great acting, some good myth arch storylines, some good one liners and great characters.
ReplyDeleteimho I don't see it as a procedural whilst watching it.
Networks look at prime demo ratings and the like but average viewers watch what they like. More people watching means a show is a bigger hit. Sure, it means that to everyone that watches and not the networks, but CBS is accurate in saying PoI was the #1 new show.
ReplyDeleteIt comes down to who determines a given item or show is a hit. A CD is a hit if "X" number of buyers purchase it - not "X" number of people in a specific demographic. A movie is a hit if "X number of people buy tickets and see it - not "X" number pf people in any given demo. When looking at any item of any genre, more total purchasers or viewers equates to a bigger hit.
Most people simply do not care about the prime demo (if they even know what that means) like the networks do. The viewing public determines what is a hit by watching, ALL of the viewing public and not one desired demographic.
Of course, all that is irrelevant to networks, but they do not determine what a hit is.
I hate CIS and NCIS. POI is nothing like those shows at all. The first few episodes of the series make it seem like it's just another crime procedural but by #7 things start to come together in a big way, and you'll see the story arch was there from the beginning. And just when you think you know where things are heading, you don't. I The people running POI are not afraid to break pattern at all. I think this show would do even better in the demo if people who wrote it off as "CBS crime drama" would give it a chance. It's really unlike anything on CBS.
ReplyDeleteWhat's surprised me the most about this season is that CBS didn't order a full 24 episodes - instead this season is 22 episodes long as opposed to last season's 23 episodes
ReplyDeletePOI deserves this. Thank you Mr. Nolan.
ReplyDeleteOh man can I answer this. For starters, DarkUFO and strilcir71 are pretty much exactly right. I've watched all 3 CSI's for all these years (Miami ended last year, which sucked, but I've moved to H50) and let me say that I would not have started watching POI if it was too much like CSI. Last year, when POI was in season 1, CBS had another new show called Unforgettable. It was basically a Grissom, Horatio, or Mac with a really good memory. I didn't start watching that because I could tell from the promos that it was too similar to the CSI's. This is where the most basic and fundamental difference between POI and the CSI's is. CSI is here's a crime/murder, now solve it and find the killer. POI, however, is crime prevention. In POI, they get information that someone is either in danger or about to cause danger, and the goal is to figure out which one of those is the right one, unravel the mystery as to why, and then stop/prevent it from happening. This is the procedural part of POI. They get info. on someone each episode and have to figure it out. I like to describe it this way: POI ends where CSI would start. But that basic process is where the procedural element ends. There is a huge part of POI that's all serialized. I can't go into the storyline here because it would make this comment way too long. The serialization is kind of like Lost because it jumps around from episode to episode. In other words, it's not like 24 was where each episode was a direct continuation from the previous one. In fact, there was a storyline that started in late season 1 that they continued in small chunks throughout the first half of this season. There are a few episodes every season that are filler, but I think it's a lot fewer of them than other shows do. Like strilcir71 said, there are also a lot of twists and turns in each episode, which is great. Like DarkUFO said, the acting and storylines are great as well. I would say it's more of a serialized show than a procedural. Another thing is the sci-fi element that you mention. It being very small is not quite correct. There is a sci-fi element, and it's one of the major parts of the show; however, in season 1 it's mostly a silent partner. This season, and especially in these last few episodes, that has changed and is going to change more. The other sci-fi part is not really sci-fi anymore, and that is surveillance. Surveillance is one of the things the show is based on, and well, these days cameras are everywhere. Strilcir71 is right that season 1 started off a little slow, which was why all the TV show critics dismissed it as just another procedural, but by mid season 1 it really started to pick up steam and get really good and that's when it took off and ended up surprising everyone by being the #1 new show (but not me. I predicted this success as soon as I saw the first promo). It's essentially a CSI spin-off with the concept of crime prevention being a very refreshing, interesting, and nicely different idea. Oh, and like I said, unlike CSI, POI is more serialized than procedural. This is how I knew that it would be a huge hit. I knew that all the CSI fans would watch it and CSI is just the most watched show in the world. Also, POI was created by Jonathan Nolan, who is Christopher Nolan's younger brother and the co-writer of The Dark Knight trilogy. I'm a huge fan of that trilogy so when I saw that a Nolan was the creator that immediately hooked me. JJ Abrams is also a showrunner of POI, and you probably know him from Lost. Strilcir71 is very correct in saying that POI is unlike anything else on CBS. Anyway, I hope I provided some useful info. (probably too much info lol). I very highly recommend it, but don't just jump in now because you'll have no idea what's going on. You'll need to watch it from the beginning.
ReplyDeleteThanks you three for your replies. I'll check it out today.
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