The Simpsons May Get Canceled!!! ...

[Joelcool7]

sapphi_snake said:

Joelcool7 said:

Well all you Simpson fans can be relieved the cast and crew negotiated a pay cut that will allow the show to continue to be produced for at least another season. Fact is the Simpsons crew is one of the highest paid cartoon development teams in the world, I guess if they are willing to take this steep pay cut they must realize the importance of Simpsons to their careers and livelihoods.

However I do have to wonder if Fox executives are taking pay cuts? I mean television shows on Fox and other channels are becoming more and more expensive to produce and less and less revenue is coming in. It used to be a show got 3-million views it would remain on the air for a season it was acceptable. But this season a show got 5-million views and was dropped after three episodes.

Its like all the banks that laid off tons of staff and accepted bail outs, yet their executives barely saw a cut in their pay checks while everyone else within the companies suffered. I like Nintendo's approach where the companies leadership actually takes responsibility for the poor sales and takes a pay cut alongside any other staff receiving the cut.

A company is supposed to be a team, the boss is no good without the team. Sure the boss is important and deserves higher pay but why should the whole team take a pay cut while the executives remain unaffected. I mean really is it the teams fault that sales are winding down or bad business decisions were made by those in leadership? No, so why should the executives be protected at the cost of the developers who actually make the products?

LOL, you got it the other way around. In the past the top 10 shows used to average close to, or even more than 20 million viewers/episode. Nowadays a show is considered a hit if it manages to get 9-10 million viewers. A show that made just 3 million viewers would've been canceled after 1 episode in the past (granted, 3 million is just too low even for today's standards, unless we're talking about The CW).

Your right in the past some big shows did draw in larger amounts of viewers. But shows like say 7th Heaven was averaging 3-million views an episode after a few seasons. Touched by and Angel another show that saw several seasons averaged similar numbers in fact the show's highest numbers if I recall were around 11-million.

Looking at data from 2006 premier episodes did draw in numbers of about 20-million viewers. However I never stated that numbers have improved over the years, just that many shows failed to deliver the number of viewers shows this season did and weren't canned.

I'm not going to go further in this discussion as I am having a hard time finding actual viewer results that are global in comparison to national. Finding different results for the same shows on different sites so I'm guessing they are reporting national numbers and so fourth. Seece do you know a good source for global television viewership numbers?

If a show gets 5-million views in US alone and more globally then it should definitely remain on the air. I found numbers for American Dad that said the show gets around 3-million viewers and remains on the air, Family Guy only has 6.6-million so I am assuming these are national figures because programs are getting canned at the 5-million mark as they are considered a failure. But Family Guy barely did better and is called a success.