This North Carolina survey asked 600-people: "If you were a network television executive and you had to cancel one show, which of the following shows would you cancel first?" We rotated the orders of choices so as not to have any bias in the order they were read.
Desperate Housewives "won" in a landslide, meaning people in North Carolina are really ready for that show to go... American Idol came in a surprisingly strong third. (Angry Sanjaya fans maybe??)
Here are the results, the most often canceled first:
- Desperate Housewives: 31.5%
- Survivor: 20.2%
- American Idol: 14.2%
- Lost: 11.9%
- Twenty Four (24): 5.6%
- E. R.: 4.1%
- CSI: 3.1%
- Don't know/refused: 9.5%
The 600-person telephone survey was conducted May 3-7, 2007 for Brogan & Partners by the Glengariff Group of Chicago. The questions were not commissioned by any candidate, company or organization. You can read press releases that came from the larger survey here.
What do you think? Which show would you cancel first? We thought maybe 24 was the most tired show, but the anti "Housewives" crowd came on strong... Do you agree?
3 comments:
This really shows how tapped out a show can become. I wonder if these shows will actually respond to the decrease in numbers or just wrap up their seasons.
On a personal note, the American Idol numbers aren't surprising due to Ryan Seacrest - who really needs to retire.
Did any of those surveyed want to cancel something they watched regularily? I am sick and tired of seeing Desparate Housewives ads while I am trying to enjoy Lost. I would love to see it go because I don't watch it. I never have. This tells you nothing of the quality of Desparate Housewives (expect for the marketing). Now I have watched Survivor a bit, and it seems like the current content is pretty much recycled material. So I could do away with it (though I don't mind seeing the marketing). So I could get rid of both. I could cancel one because of annoying marketing. I could cancel another because of the show itself. Does the survey have anything to say about this difference in reasoning for cancelling of shows? I can avoid watching shows I don't like. It is harder to avoid the marketing.
No, Dan, we didn't ask people why, but you raise a lot of interesting questions. We would guess that people voted against shows they really can't stand anymore versus which ones should really be canceled for business reasons. Because it just seems clear that business-wise, E.R. would be much higher up on the list...
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