Now lets get rid of that Geena Davis POS thing.
http://medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/article_2304.asp
Shrinking mandate for 'Commander'
First-year ABC drama hits a series low of 2.4
By Abigail Azote
Jan 19, 2006
“Commander In Chief’s” Geena Davis may have walked away with the Best Actress in a Drama award during Monday’s Golden Globes, but among the American voting public she's sliding in the opinion polls that matter most, the ratings.
They've been on a steady decline for the once-promising freshman show.
“Commander” averaged a 2.4 rating on Tuesday night, an all-time low for ABC's political drama. That’s down 14 percent from the previous week’s 2.8 18-49 rating, its second lowest, for the show’s first original episode to air since Nov. 29. And it’s down substantially, 38 percent, from the show’s 3.9 season-to-date average.
Part of the decline can be attributed to its holiday hiatus. Viewers have a way of drifting back to shows that have been off the air for a bit.
More worrisome is the show's increased competition in the Tuesday 9 p.m. timeslot. The return of Fox’s "American Idol" was expected to dominate Tuesday night, as it did, overwhelmingly so, but "Commander" also lost out to NBC’s drooping "Scrubs" and a repeat of CBS’s "CSI."
“Commander” tells the story of the country’s first female president, and as such has caught much flack over charges of being a vehicle to get a woman, Sen. Hillary Clinton in particular, into the real White House. Such publicity doesn’t seem to have helped the show.
Even the addition of a powerhouse producer like Steven Bochco early on in the season couldn’t halt the show’s decline. It peaked in its second week out, with a 4.8 rating, and has not come close to that level since.
“Commander” made Newsday’s Worst of 2005 list. “While this show has become a moderate-sized success -- with 17 million suckers tuning in each week -- that doesn't overrule the fact that ‘Commander’ is often silly, sophomoric and utterly improbable,” wrote Verne Gay.
Otherwise known as "Preparing '08 for Hillary".
I think that show has already been cancelled.
See this thread in Bloggers & Personal.
Only a matter of time before it's gone... the ratings are abominable because it's an absolutely horrible show. Bad writing, bad characters, bad acting.
If there's one thing Hollywood loves more than liberalism, it's money. They're not going to let their politics trump bad ratings.