Comments on: Ratings for Medium "Bite Me": Maybe everyone was out at Halloween parties?

By: Ratings for Medium 6×07 “New Terrain” – Another off night : Medium Dreams - A blog for Medium fans

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:13:06 +0000

[...] my theory that last week’s ratings lows were based on people being out at Halloween parties wasn’t entirely serious, but I did believe that the low ratings were an anomaly. [...]

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:49:04 +0000

Linda,
Thanks so much for that link. I just watched it and it was an Amazing Dateline.
So sad for his wife and little boy. Unbelievable people could be that evil in real life.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:06:56 +0000

Thank you for the site Linda I will check it out.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:20:08 +0000

Karen, I just crossed over to the dark side that is NBC’s site to see and it’s here.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33519482/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/

I do know of the place, remember it for entirely different reasons – the meoment I swore never to spend over 24 hours on a train again.

By: Betty

Betty — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:09:46 +0000

Perhaps Zombies just are the thing that gets people to tune in?

This is the first week Numbers has gotten more viewers than Medium and Ghost Whisperer usually has slightly less viewer than Medium. Maybe everyone was busy manning their front doors or out with their own kids trick or treating or at various neighborhood parties. The church across the street from my house had a big party outside with a hay ride and other stuff going on.

They played The Night of the Living Dead over and over on AMC this weekend. It’s stars are people I’ve never heard of, so I imagine it wasn’t a very good movie originally. Maybe that was a turn off to people?

I forgot to set my recorder for it, thinking I would for sure be home in time to see it and wouldn’t you know it, got tied up at work and missed the first half! Darn it! What I saw for good.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:40:29 +0000

I used to watch Dateline NBC. It is a pretty good show. I haven’t watched it since it is opposite Medium.

I am curious what it was about on Friday that it was able to steal the number one spot from Medium epecially for this Halloween episode that has been highly promoted.

I don’t normally like watching B/W shows but for Halloween I thought it was good.

I wasn’t at all scared by any of the scenes from the old horror movie. I am not sure if medium meant to make it scary when the Zombies were chasing Allison and when she was screaming’ I don’t want to Die”. I found it amusing.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:24:12 +0000

I guess people really wanted to scare themselves for real with watching Dateline NBC..the numbers don’t seem right to me either because I did think that lots of people would watch this episode..
I have to say I really enjoyed it and loved how they wove the black and white Night of the Living Dead movie into it too.
I also really thought that the spider storyline was great too. That’s okay though..Medium will continue to do well. There are far too many fans for it not to.

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:56:51 +0000

I think it would be a real shame if Medium (or any show that dares to be creative) was to abandon experimenting with different formats, ideas just because people might not like it. That’s one of the things I personally love about Medium.

That said, pretty much my favourite place is the arthouse cinema. I see more films there than I do at the main cinema, even though I’m no longer studying languages, nor in the city as often.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:42:59 +0000

I enjoyed this episode but I am a Medium fan since the beginning like most of us who read this site.

I could see that the black and white episode might not appeal to new viewers or not as dedicated fans. It was a type of episode for the regular fans and those new to the show may not have been able to get the humor of it.( Like the Joke about Joe’s horror mall movie)

Datelines ratings were up so it looks like people tuned in to that and then some came back for Numbers.

If it was the black and white factor then ratings should be back up for next week.

By: m3Cube

m3Cube — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:42:59 +0000

I guess it helps to read over your post for grammatical errors and typos before submitting. I meant “their ratings” in the first sentence. The start of the second last sentence should read, “I think”.