Posted on 04/19/2022 2:33:30 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Jon Stewart is struggling to gain traction on his new talk show, according to a report.
“The Problem with Jon Stewart,” which launched on AppleTV+ in September, appears to be a flop, as it trails far behind its competitors on broadcast and cable TV, according to Bloomberg.
The show’s first episode was seen by just 180,000 US homes in the first week it debuted last fall, measurement firm Samba TV said. That number dropped to 78% to 40,000 by its fifth episode, which aired in early March.
Stewart’s comic rival John Oliver, meanwhile, pulled in viewership of 844,000 US homes for a March episode of his HBO show, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” Samba TV reported.
Stewart declined to comment, but on the air, he has made his thoughts about the numbers clear.
“Thank you for watching but my guess is you didn’t,” he said at the end of the premiere episode of his show. “You’re probably just going to look at aggregated clips of it somewhere, on YouTube, where you pirate ‘Ted Lasso.’ You don’t even know how to get Apple TV, do you?”
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Who came up with that title? The Problem with Jon Stewart. Where to start?!
And from the article, insulting what viewers you do have? That's really smart!
Who?
Well, I’ll start...
The first problem is that he is UNFunny... the Opposite of funny.
He needs more canned laughter.
The Problem IS Jon Stewart.
American media worships their own like gods, so everyone acts surprised when they have yet another failure.
I don’t know anyone who subscribes to AppleTV, so I am not surprised his ratings are low. I don’t think they even have much content. They would probably run into antitrust problems if they tried to buy one of the major streaming services or networks so they have to build their own and create their own programming. Sounds like it’s just a video blog site for high priced former celebrities.
I have a TV show idea maybe I should pitch it to them, but I think it won’t fit into their political ideology.
He’s not being woke enough, and he is too pro-white.
Chris Wallace needs to interview Stewart on CNN+.
They may break new ground with negative viewership.
I’m behind with the times. But Jon Stewart is probably too PC. Afraid to push the envelope. If he’s like that, then it’s not comedy.
Where can you subscribe to CNN-?
I got a free 3 month subscription to AppleTV+ when I bought an iPad, couldn’t find a single thing worth watching and cancelled it after 3 days, even though I still had 3 months left on the free trial (didn’t want to forget and get billed for the 4 month++)
You beat me to the obvious question.
CNN- is when you don’t subscribe to CNN. :P
He was unfunny from way back when he started on MTV.
I pretty get all my entertainment on Discovery Plus anyway.
It’s started out thin. I liked the first season of the “Morning Show”. It seemed to this casual student of the genre to be a damning indictment of it all.
And Reese Witherspoon has got a mounts on her…. Oh my 🤣
Mounts=mouth ….l geeez
I like roku.
I never even heard of AppleTV … just to show you how utterly disconnected I am from the modern entertainment culture.
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