Comments on: 9021OMG

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:37:12 +0000

Looks like i was wrong

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:57:52 +0000

I’ve been watching it and its pretty good, i reckon it’ll hit the million mark. Think, all of the 40 year olds watching it who watched it in their late 20s, and today’s teenagers will most definately get into it.

By: sTeVie g

sTeVie g — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:59:09 +0000

At 42 i’m probably not in the target demoraphic, but I’ll still prefer it to Kitchen Nightmares and City Homocide. A lot of over 40s don’t, but I still remember what it’s like to be young.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:35:26 +0000

Having just watched the new 90210 I do like it, there is a lot to take in. As someone who didn’t follow the original closely, especially the last few seasons there is a lot to remember from the old show and characters, working out how it all fits, but it is good.

I think it can work on ch10.

It may not break any ratings records but as David said it’s the demographics that matter and this might appeal to them more than City Homicide or Kitchen Nightmares.

By: SwaySlayer

SwaySlayer — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:44:46 +0000

Tim, you’re on the money in terms of the curiosity factor. I would never dream of watching shows like The OC, Gossip Girl, The Hills and Summerland, but as a fan of Beverly Hills 90210 from the 90’s, I will be tuning in to see the reunion of Brenda and Kelly amongst the new batch of spoiled rich kids.

Whether or not I’ll continue to watch is another story. No doubt the show will score top marks in the 13-17 and 16-24 categories, but I suspect David Mott will be disappointed in the older demos unless the lead in from Idol really works its derriere off.

By: RichoTB

RichoTB — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:21:32 +0000

90210 has actually been received poorly by critics. Even Gossip Girl was more well received when it premiered last year. 90210 has a score of 46 on Metacritic, with no one giving it a score above 63.

http://www.metacritic.com/tv/shows/90210

Not that critics are worth listening to, but the tone of the article seemed to suggest it was being received rather favourably (see Ten’s dude saying “such great global buzz”) when that isn’t necessarily the case. As for me, I probably won’t bother watching. I don’t see the appeal in watching the melodramatic antics of rich kids, unless its done with wit and style like The OC.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:19:00 +0000

it rated 4.91 total viewers, its only competition was americas got tallent wich had over 10 million ncis had over 8 mill and wipeout and house had around 7 mill, everything was reapets except usa got tallent

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:19:06 +0000

VMan, you may be underestimating the fans of the old 90210 who will at least watch the premier.

Frankly i have better things to do than watch 90210 but best of luck to it.

BTW: For those curious as to how many people actually watched is in the US, i read that it was 4.9 million, though i don’t have a reliable source on that, the posting claimed it came from HollywoodReporter.com but i couldn’t find it on there.

By: Benno

Benno — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:02:56 +0000

As i am so used to seeing ratings for eg 1.1 million, i come across us ratings and the actual viewers are buried in stats, with the shares. It takes some time to get my head around them. I found a site which has american ratings: http://entertainmentnow.wordpress.com/last-nights-broadcast-tv-ratings/

By: VMan

VMan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:01:23 +0000

There’s NO WAY 90210 will rate well here. I think David Mott will be surprised and disappointed. There’s no way it will go over 1 mil on its debut, and there’s no way it’ll avg more than 800K throughout its run.

It is a teenage drama. It is on Channel 10. Going by past experience with Neighbours, OC, OTH, Dawsons, it won’t do well.

Perhaps 800K+ is ‘well’ to David Mott? Well I guess in this day and age, a teen drama being able to pull that number with good demo’s would be good.

ANYWAY!! I don’t really CARE about how it does here! I’m just so happy that it got off to a great start in the US! I hope that the retention for next week is good, because surely a lot people will have watched just to see what its like, and will tune out. I’ll be looking at the ratings very carefully over the next few weeks.

To sum up: Who cares what it does in Oz! Even if it doesn’t rate well and Motty takes it off, we always have the option to download.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:06:37 +0000

Thats great. I cant wait to see what its like.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:01:09 +0000

“The CW (adults 18-49: 2.6, #1) pulled off a rare adults 18-49 win on Tuesday thanks to the launch of “90210″ (adults 18-49: 2.6, #4, half-hour: 8.00%). A second episode of “90210″ (adults 18-49: 2.7, #3, half-hour: 0.00%) followed at 9:00/8:00c, building off its 8:00/7:00c numbers.”
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings.aspx?id=tuesday

I did well in the all important demographics they are after, The CW and Ch10 have similar audiance appeal so I hope it does well.

OT – it’s in the old Gilmore Girls time slot, which they held for 6 years in the US on the WB then CW.

By: David Knox

David Knox — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:00:20 +0000

In the US it’s never about total ratings actually, its about winning demographic and audience share. Our Aussie networks are trying to effect that change here but it’s a battle.

In the 18-49 demographic, 90210 took CW to the top for the first time in the network’s two-year history.

NBC 5.5 rating/9 share.
FOX 4.1/6
CBS 3.9/6.
The CW 3.4/5
ABC 2.8/4.

By: Leith

Leith — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:39:29 +0000

I’ll only be watching when Jenny Garth and Shannen Doherty are on screen together to see if I can point out a crack in their smiles.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:35:51 +0000

So what did it rate in the end?