Dr. Horrible on TV
Oct. 10th, 2012 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxFrom EW.com:
This was one of the biggest mysteries of the fall: How many people would tune in to watch Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog on The CW? How many might watch a a low-budget, if beloved, web series on television after it’s been free online for years?
Here’s the answer: 566,000 viewers and a 0.2 in the adult demo.
Is that good? Bad? Well, if Dr. Horrible were a new show this would be as terrible as Bad Horse’s whinny. It’s also less than The CW’s program in this slot last week, the very little-seen music competition series Next (you have no idea what I’m referring to, do you?). But Dr. Horrible is not a new show. Another person could look at these number and go: Wow, a video that’s been on YouTube for four years got 566,000 viewers! And a more flattering comparison is The CW’s summer show The LA Complex, which only did a little better in its premiere with 646,000 viewers.
One suspects if a person had any urge to see Dr. Horrible, they’ve already watched it to their heart’s content (of course, the same could be said for 1965′s A Charlie Brown Christmas, yet that special wins its time slot nearly every year). Viewing likely was driven by hardcore fans celebrating the novelty of getting to watch the show on the old fashion big box, and a few curious lookie-loos who never caught it online. Lead-in Hart of Dixie had 1.2 million and a 0.4 ratings, down from last week’s premiere.
