UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Update: 1.5.2016

No it wasn’t. All of the younger demographics went up 2 weeks in a row. The younger demos are the ones that watch online if it’s on earlier.

That’s now in the text.

Destiny, Mitch did say “somewhat”

Paranormal witness is on earlier. nielsen viewers (which suck) don’t watch live-viewing 10pm and later. Advertisements are online and on-demand, why do most people think businesses don’t like those viewers?

As someone noted, I wasn’t giving a ringing endorsement to the renewal with the word “somewhat.” But you have to start from the fact that Syfy did choose to renew the show despite what appear on their face to be awful ratings, and two consecutive weeks of increases are at least going in the right direction.

As we’ve noted here, the economics of series renewals are much more complex and mysterious than they’ve ever been in the past. The days of looking at a ratings number and knowing whether the thumb was going to be up or down are over–the intricacies of the deals are driving these decisions. My own theory on Expanse (and I have no inside information, this is just speculation) is that because the production studio Alcon is brand new to TV production, they very much wanted to keep their first series order on the air. They may have been willing to make a disadvantageous deal with Syfy to make that happen, and even though the show’s production cost is much higher than on Syfy’s usual Canadian co-productions, the license fee to the network may be at a similar level. That would make these numbers easier to swallow.

The Centric Zoe run was 0.03/53K

Sorry, but we don’t provide news ratings that aren’t in the Top 150. There are just too many of them every day, and that’s a door we’re not going to open.

No, we don’t regularly get breakdowns for segments within the cable broadcast.

The key to that quote from the MTV exec is that they want the older/male viewers “alongside MTV’s core viewers.” The potential problem with Shannara is that it just skewed old, underperforming with the core demos (compared to Teen Wolf) and making up the difference with older men.

It will be interesting to see if there’s a noticeable effect in the streamed Episode 3-4 ratings compared to 5+, although so far there seems to be little difference in the on-air ratings for streamed and non-streamed show episodes. The next wrinkle to this mix will come Angie Tribeca on TBS, which will air its entire season in one binge and then repeat all the episodes on a weekly basis. Nobody’s done that before, so no idea how it will affect the numbers.

MTV made the first five episodes of Eye Candy available before their television premiere. I don’t have the demo numbers in front of me, but I think that was one of the factors in keeping its total viewers as steady as they were (590K, 630K, 520K, 600K, 620K). Plus, the episode following this practice bounced up to 710K, so we’ll have to wait for Shannara’s fifth episode to see what happens.