I don't doubt people watch recordings of these shows later, but would this matter to the tv stations? I don't care about Scandal (urgh, it has run its course) but it was a 25% drop for the Blacklist and is that significant?
It might be that there was a significant overlap of viewers between the two shows and now they are divided (during normal broadcast times), because I don't get the drop in viewers for the Blacklist since it's quite awesome right now (and only promises to be better). A bit of a google search has confirmed to me that there hasn't been confirmation if Scandal will have a season 5. I also checked Scandal and it was surprising, because that show was around 10 million as well for this season (it had considerably weaker seasons before), but there's been a decrease to 7,5 million too since the switch from the Blacklist to that time slot. My first worry was whether this drop is significant enough? What do you think? However, once it switched to thursdays (to compete with Scandal, or so the Blacklist Exposed Podcast informs me), it has dropped to 7,5 million. So I'm always worried about viewer numbers, because if they keep going down a show can be cancelled.įrom what I checked, the Blacklist had a solid 10 million viewers for season 1 and most of season 2.
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The abrupt change in nights and times could well have something to do with the Season 8 finale not exactly crushing in the ratings, even up against a rerun of CBS’ S.W.A.T. ET time slot on Wednesdays for the final two episodes. That said, the scheduling may have had something to do with The Blacklist’s disappointing numbers for the Season 8 finale.Īfter spending most of Season 8 on Friday nights, NBC switched The Blacklist to that 10 p.m.
slot on Wednesday was certainly more enviable when The Blacklist aired new episodes on Fridays, when Fridays are generally not the ideal nights for shows to score big ratings. ET on Wednesday without much competition in late June. Again, those aren’t the worst numbers in the world, but low for a high-stakes season finale that would feature the well-publicized departure of the lead in a pretty solid time slot of 10 p.m.