Season 3 Ratings
May 15, 2009
[313] – Great ratings with the Office back! I guess this should be about the ratings it gets the rest of the season, hopefully a little higher when Parks & Recreation airs. I’m a little relieved, I thought the ratings were bad because there hasn’t been a lot of discussion on this episode (here, LJ, some 30 Rock forms, ect.) I’m glad people did tune in though! [312] Down again. Mostly because of the Office Rerun. However, that’s actually pretty good for 30 Rock. It gained over a million viewers from the Office repeat. Which means people were tuning in, not just leaving their TV on. And it even beat Heroes in the 18-34 demo [311] – Good news in the ratings today! 30 Rock scored it’s highest numbers since the Oprah episode! See what a little bit of promotion can do you for you! Way to go 30 Rock! (Well I guess I should say way to go America for tuning in! Good choice! Lets keep it up!) [310] A little slip in the viewers and demo… Nothing to get too worried about but 30 Rock deserves better than this! It looks like the Super Bowl didn’t help 30 Rock or The Office all that much… [309] – Just a little dip down this week. Which is sort of rough. Hopefully Jon Hamm can push it back over 6.5 or even 7.0 million in Febuary. Though it should be interesting; Jon Hamm has a smaller but loyal fan base, and I bet many already watch 30 Rock. [3.08] – 30 Rock recovered without the BCS game against it. The numbers might still be a little lower due to Grissom leaving CSI. But as we all heard 30 Rock got a 4th season already so I’m not too woried. I just wish more people would watch this show! [307] – 30 Rock took a beating largely due to the BCS Championship airing against it. Also The Office was a repeat which was bad as a lead in. Weird scheduling move by NBC. [306] Up a little bit, but largely due to no new Grey’s Anatomy as competition. Still, not a bad showing. [305] It looks like a little bounce upwards from last week, but they could fall down a bit when the final ratings come out. Hopefully it’ll stay above 7 million. Also, I’m hoping the numbers will go up next week with the Christmas episode and Grey’s Anatomy isn’t on as competition. [304] I think this will be around the norm from now on. I’d of course like to see it higher, but this is very good considering it’s 30 Rock. Sill make sure everyone you know is watching this show! [303] I expect 7.0 to be the norm from now on. A little slip from the first two episodes but still the 4th highest ever for the series. Also, 30 Rock kept 92% of The Office’s viewers. However, The Office had one of it’s lowest viewings this season so that didn’t help. Was there a lot going on on Grey’s Anatomy or CSI? [302] Glad to see the ratings hold. That was the best retention between a seasons 1st and 2nd episode, though I suppose Oprah had a lot to do with that. Hopefully the numbers won’t dip too much next week. [301] Way to go 30 Rock, that’s the biggest audience it’s ever had! Even better than the Pilot! Just one million behind The Office! (Did any one else watch the office last night? The feud between Dwight and Andy was very much like the one between Frank and Toofer last season…) Obviously 30 Rock won’t keep these huge numbers forever, but Oprah next week should keep them up! And 2 more quick things: 1. As was pointed out to me, 30 Rock beat Heroes in the ratings this week. And 2: NBC is said to be very happy with 30 Rocks performance last night. (We’ll update this post after each episode.) Pages: 1 2 Posted in Season 3 | 
. If they’re happy, I’m happy!
October 31st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Yay! Way to go 30 rock!!
i saw The Office last night, and I too realized that the feud between Dwight and Andy was similar to Frank and Toofer’s identiy confusion.
hopefully 30 rock’s ratings keep going up
October 31st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Finally, 30 Rock get’s (1/10th) of the audience it deserves!
Good job Liz, and may the power of TGS be with you.
Also, I think they should air a fresh new episode of 30 Rock (or even the Oprah one) right after the Super Bowl (since it’s on NBC this year)–think of the exposure!
October 31st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Yaaay!
And, ohmygosh, it beat Heroes? I feel bad for that show.
November 1st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
thank god. i was stressin out.
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
NBC said it’s already going with a special Office episode after the Superbowl.
November 14th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I think an average viewership of 7mil for season 3 would be a really great number. That would mean a steady increase over the last three years [season 1 - 5.8, season 2 - 6.4]
And NBC shows with 7 million viewers get renewed, and that’s not considering 30 Rock’s award hardware.
We can’t have another Arrested Development situation. [rip]
November 15th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
This show is no way in any trouble. NBC loves it and wouldn’t have renewed it even after a first season if they didn’t believe in it. The fact that its audience has grown year-to-year is a strong enough reason to keep it. Take its awards and genuine creativity into account, and you’ve got a great show story.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 am
As long as 30rock keeps getting a variety of new viewers then I’m fine. Hopefully they will all show up for the season 4 premier
I think that NBC should go with 30 rock for the after super bowl spot. The office is semi serialized, so I don’t think a lot of people will start watching it after the Super Bowl. Maybe they’re start with the first season and move on. Plus, 30 rock has more self contained episodes so it will bring in more people and while they might not watch is religiously like some of us, they might become a casual viewer and slowly…they will get sucked in.
Who else thinks that it would be perfect to have the winning team on TGS? They could film the scenes with both teams and air the one with the winners.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:16 am
“This show is no way in any trouble. NBC loves it and wouldn’t have renewed it even after a first season if they didn’t believe in it. The fact that its audience has grown year-to-year is a strong enough reason to keep it. Take its awards and genuine creativity into account, and you’ve got a great show story.”
I agree with Eric. I bet we have at least two more guaranteed seasons of 30 rock. Tina Fey is hot now, the show has critical buzz, wins awards, various guest stars, SNL is popular thanks to Tina and Micheal Lourdes (who is an executive producer on 30 rock). Plus, NBC wants a solid comedy block, who knows how long the office will be on the air, and it took the office a while to get some steam going.
December 12th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
NBC decided to go with an hour Office special after the Superbowl. I guess that’s ok since it will bring attention to NBC’s Thursday night, but I wish they had went with half an hour of The Office and half an hour of 30 Rock.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Oh man, the 1/8 episode was so great. That just stinks about the ratings. Maybe if those clowns Silverman and Zuckerman weren’t so busy promoting all their crap reality shows they’d promote and schedule 30 Rock in the way it deserves.
February 13th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I think Liz Lemon sitting on the toilet got everyone to tune in!!!
February 13th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Agreed, Thirdheat!
February 13th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
What the what?! Craziness. I love that the top 3 viewed episodes are Do-Over, Believe in the Stars, and Valentine’s Day, since I consider two of them to be iffy episodes. Believe in the Stars deserves to be up there of course.
March 29th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Solid numbers! I’m glad it’s able to stay in the 7 million-range.
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Re: The Natural Order–There was a pretty crucial NBA playoff game (Celtics vs. Bulls) going on at the same time. I bet that affected 30 Rock’s numbers for the week.
May 5th, 2009 at 6:47 am
I think LGA is absolutely right. The awful ratings with The Natural Order were due to the playoff games. In saying that, this show’s ratings are never really that great and that is such a disappointment – it gets nowhere near the viewership it deserves, but gets all the awards it deserves. I hope that if the ratings stay this shallow that at least if the show keeps winning awards, it’ll stick around for awhile. Also, I think promoting it has some to do with the not so great ratings. NBC constantly promotes The Office like crazy and even it’s two new Thursday night shows, Parks and Southland, more than 30 Rock. At least in my opinion. I hope there’s at least two more season – I can’t imagine it ending next year =/
May 8th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
We have to get to season 6! Syndication! Do it for Alice, NBC!
May 15th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Maybe Palin will do something crazy at the end of the summer, giving another ratings boost after another Tina SNL appearance. It’s the only thing Palin is good for.
June 15th, 2009 at 1:57 am
hey,
how can the ratings go down.
its the best series invented.
does anyone know when the third season comes out to buy in australia?