I'd have to agree. I know from my own television watching habits and those of family and friends - it would be impossible to tell from live tv watching. I rarely watch live tv - it's all DVR, on-demand, or netflix.
And from that article - it sounds like the networks wait for the info from the DVR feeds before calculating how well a series is doing. There's also on-demand, google play, amazon, netflix streaming and itunes. (Hostages wasn't doing well live, but was amongst the most "downloaded" series on itunes and google play). Also Optima is offering DVR's that can tape up to 10 tv shows at the same time! (Oh dear.)
Sunday night is Football night. So a lot of people may be watching Football live and DVRing OUAT. I don't watch Football, but I admittedly do DVR five series that night.
Also, there are series like Big Bang, (again -Football), and The Voice - which you can't really compete against. Although, my attitude towards Big Bang is I can skip it - and watch in reruns. It's not a show you have to see each week. So I DVR Vamp Diaries and OUAT:Wonderland, with Big Bang being the series I watch either on demand or in reruns.
NBC...this season, unlike last, can afford to ax as many series as it wants. CW really can't. CBS is going to be a bit more conservative. ABC also can afford to ax tv series...although since it has a lot of solid hits, including Marvel's Agents of Shield (the Marvel bit is important because ABC's parent company owns Marvel).
You really have to be savvy about the industry to predict cancellations. (Although even I knew Lucky 7 was a goner.)
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Date: 2013-10-19 10:19 pm (UTC)And from that article - it sounds like the networks wait for the info from the DVR feeds before calculating how well a series is doing. There's also on-demand, google play, amazon, netflix streaming and itunes. (Hostages wasn't doing well live, but was amongst the most "downloaded" series on itunes and google play). Also Optima is offering DVR's that can tape up to 10 tv shows at the same time! (Oh dear.)
Sunday night is Football night. So a lot of people may be watching Football live and DVRing OUAT. I don't watch Football, but I admittedly do DVR five series that night.
Also, there are series like Big Bang, (again -Football), and The Voice - which you can't really compete against. Although, my attitude towards Big Bang is I can skip it - and watch in reruns. It's not a show you have to see each week. So I DVR Vamp Diaries and OUAT:Wonderland, with Big Bang being the series I watch either on demand or in reruns.
NBC...this season, unlike last, can afford to ax as many series as it wants. CW really can't. CBS is going to be a bit more conservative. ABC also can afford to ax tv series...although since it has a lot of solid hits, including Marvel's Agents of Shield (the Marvel bit is important because ABC's parent company owns Marvel).
You really have to be savvy about the industry to predict cancellations. (Although even I knew Lucky 7 was a goner.)