“Minute to Win It” Week Three Ratings Recap and Preview
Week three of NBC’s new game show Minute to Win It has come and gone. If nothing else the show did give off some faint vital signs, but we’ll see if it’s enough. Ratings improved to a 3.7/6 this week. Just simply in that rating it went up a lot from last week’s 2.9/5. In viewers the show improved by around 500,000 eyes, so that’s something at least. But the bad news is that it got crushed unmercifully by The Amazing Race, which had around 11 million viewers at 8:30PM ET. To make matters worse Minute even got beat by a rerun of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
The only show it beat was The Simpsons, but that was only by 70,000 people which isn’t anything to gloat about. It tied for last place in the key demographic with that rerun of Extreme Makeover as well. The show picks up Wednesday time slots starting this week. So yes, ratings are looking better this week but it needs to improve a lot more or it won’t be back. You don’t see shows being beaten by over 1,000,000 viewers by a rerun and losing the key demographic every week returning. And again it’s a shame because despite a poor job with the press for promoting the show, it’s not as horrible as they made everyone think it is. It’s looking like too-little-too-late, though. We’ll see what it looks like this Wednesday. Putting a rerun of a poorly viewed program on during a weekday doesn’t seem like the smartest idea, though, especially an episode that wasn’t all that exciting.
So what happened this week? Congratulations to Blake DuPlant for winning the show’s first six figure prize. He walked out with $125,000 playing Caddy Stack. Take a look.
What do you have to look forward to this coming week? It’s a bit of a spoiler, but take a look at the promo. Given how the ratings are going I’d expect to hear the news of what will happen shouted from the rooftops all this week in an effort to keep this show around.
I do in fact believe that moving M2WI to a weekday, Wednesday this week, will help out the ratings. On Sunday nights there's a lot of shows to chose from, compared to Wednesday, there's not that much competition at the 8pm time slot.
I do in fact believe that moving M2WI to a weekday, Wednesday this week, will help out the ratings. On Sunday nights there's a lot of shows to chose from, compared to Wednesday, there's not that much competition at the 8pm time slot.
I do in fact believe that moving M2WI to a weekday, Wednesday this week, will help out the ratings. On Sunday nights there's a lot of shows to chose from, compared to Wednesday, there's not that much competition at the 8pm time slot.
I posted this on an earlier story, but the contestant in the blue was the first contestant on William Shatner and ABC's failed show "Show Me the Money a couple years ago. When I watched this on Sunday, I kep tthinking 'this guy looks (and acts) familar.'
I posted this on an earlier story, but the contestant in the blue was the first contestant on William Shatner and ABC's failed show "Show Me the Money a couple years ago. When I watched this on Sunday, I kep tthinking 'this guy looks (and acts) familar.'
Going off topic here, but… a new episode of The Simpsons in last place? Seriously, why is this show still on? I will always love the classic episodes from the first 8-9 seasons, but as it stands now, the show is a morbidly sick dog that desperately needs to be put out of its misery. I figured that it kept limping along because of decent ratings, but with an embarrassing showing like that, there's no excuse not to cancel the show.
Going off topic here, but… a new episode of The Simpsons in last place? Seriously, why is this show still on? I will always love the classic episodes from the first 8-9 seasons, but as it stands now, the show is a morbidly sick dog that desperately needs to be put out of its misery. I figured that it kept limping along because of decent ratings, but with an embarrassing showing like that, there's no excuse not to cancel the show.
Going off topic here, but… a new episode of The Simpsons in last place? Seriously, why is this show still on? I will always love the classic episodes from the first 8-9 seasons, but as it stands now, the show is a morbidly sick dog that desperately needs to be put out of its misery. I figured that it kept limping along because of decent ratings, but with an embarrassing showing like that, there's no excuse not to cancel the show.
I agree with you Mike The Simpsons needs to go off air they are running out of ideas
I saw The first ep of Minute i couldn't get in to it.
I agree with you Mike The Simpsons needs to go off air they are running out of ideas
I saw The first ep of Minute i couldn't get in to it.
Yeah i agree that the Simpsons isn't what it used to be. It's the Millionaire of Comedy. Once great, but thanks to producer incompetence, now declining in quality.
Yeah i agree that the Simpsons isn't what it used to be. It's the Millionaire of Comedy. Once great, but thanks to producer incompetence, now declining in quality.
Yeah I'd agree that I'd watch this show on the weekdays. If this show is still alive by then they'd probably have to do it anyways since football is on by that time in the fall.
Yeah I'd agree that I'd watch this show on the weekdays. If this show is still alive by then they'd probably have to do it anyways since football is on by that time in the fall.
I don't like the show. Besides, and still going off topic but, with The Simpsons on at 8PM, More people might watch that, IMO. The show is still doing decent ratings I believe. I hope M2WI gets canceled.
I don't like the show. Besides, and still going off topic but, with The Simpsons on at 8PM, More people might watch that, IMO. The show is still doing decent ratings I believe. I hope M2WI gets canceled.
I’m so excited to see M2WI is getting a summer extension (coming out on July 7th) and being picked up for another season in the fall. This is great news! I’m definitely a superfan of the show, and I can’t wait for the new episodes to start!!!!