Ratings Ratings Ratings!

Excitement over ratings!  March sweeps is over, as well as GSN’s two premieres of The Newlywed Game and Catch 21 are in the system, so ratings are coming in like crazy.  Basically it was pretty normal everywhere.  Deal or No Deal is still the one to watch, though, since that official second season greenlight hasn’t been given just yet.  The show stayed at its same 1.7 it last had, but hey, steady is better than dropping.  The rest of the shows were, as Deal is, just about at the normal level.  Wheel of Fortune stuck at a 7.2 and Jeopardy! went up a bit to a 5.8.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire? is still lower than it was last year but far from out.  It’s went up to a 2.4.  Just be happy we haven’t had Millionaire: Hot Seat infiltrate our country yet.  We’ll see how that new abuse of the format does next week in Australia.  The country Australia, not the Newlywed Game sex position Australia.  Family Feud stuck at a 1.5.  The show has another Big Money Tournament coming up shortly so maybe that’ll boost things up.

For GSN’s shows, the network hasn’t confirmed them for us yet but our usual inside sources are telling us the numbers and they’ve yet to be wrong.  We’re hearing The Newlywed Game and Catch 21 started higher than anything the network has had in a long long time, at a .6 and a .54, respectively.  On GSN Live it was said that it’s the highest ratings GSN has ever had.  This is false, Russian Roulette, Lingo, and Whammy! all had initial higher ratings.  We even heard that ratings went up on the second day, with The Newlywed Game reaching as far as .7.  However, they have dropped back down to GSN’s earth and at normal levels around .4.  But still, great showing for the two shows.