so as I was saying before I rudely interrupted myself, I wanna talk about TV ratings ’cause I found this on Facebook.
It’s just kind of hilarious to look at now, and so this is the TV ratings from September 27th through October 4th. Basically, I saw it on Facebook yesterday, so it was showing me something that was relevant, but it went back 38 years ago. These were the TV ratings from September 27th through October 4th, 1987.
And I’m not gonna go over all these shows ’cause it literally listed the top of 73 shows, but I will talk about a few. So the number one show for that week was The Cosby Show, and it drew a 29.8 rating and a 49 share. For those of you who don’t know. A rating when you’re reading something about television ratings.
A rating means it’s the percentage of all TV equipped households, whether the TV is on or off that are watching a program. A share means the percentage of households with their TVs that are turned on at a given time that are watching that specific program. Okay, so that might be a little confusing. I’m gonna break it very, very easy for you.
So let’s just say you have a hundred houses, and those a hundred houses have TVs in them, but only 20 of them have their TVs turned on. If of those 20 TVs that are turned on, 10 of ’em are watching the Cosby Show. That means it would have a 10 rating, 10 out of a hundred TVs that are in the area, but only 20 of ’em are turned on.
So the rating is how many TVs are watching The Cosby Show out of how many people have TVs? 10 out of a hundred. But the share means. Of those a hundred TVs, let’s just go to the ones that were turned on during the time the Cosby Show aired. Well, in this example, there were 20 of them turned on and 10 of ’em were watching the Cosby Show, meaning 50 share, half the people that were watching it.
A 50% share. 50 share is what it’s called. So if you look at that. The Bill Cosby show a 29.8 rating. That means 30% of all televisions in the United States in 1987, during the week of September 27th to October 4th, 30% of all TVs, whether they were turned on or not, 30% of every TV in the United States was watching Cosby Show.
It had a 49% share, so that means a lot of the TVs weren’t on, but every TV that was turned on at the time, the Cosby Show was airing on the week of September 27th of October 4th, 1987. Every TV in the United States that was turned on, half of them were watching the Cosby Show. That is freaking bonkers.
That’s, I mean, it’s, look, I understand we’re in different times right now. That was 1987. We’re in 2025, so yes, that was 38 years ago. But holy crap, that’s just unbelievable to think of. Obviously. Now there’s a way, there was no streaming back then. There was barely any cable back then. There was a few cable TVs that you could watch.
You could watch HBO, but. It was basically just network television. So of course the ratings are gonna be ridiculous, but it’s just funny to see these numbers. So Cosby Show was the number one show in the world, followed by a different world, which had a 45 share. Growing pains had a 41 share. Cheers. Had a 41 share.
Moonlighting had a 40 share. Golden girls had a 44 share. Who’s the boss? 39 Share Murder. She wrote 34 Share Family Ties, 32 share. Those were the top 10 shows. Okay, I’m just gonna skip down to the bottom, which is, what was the 73rd ranked show? Because this, it listed all out the top 73 shows for that week.
The 73rd ranked show was called Once. A Hero Never even Heard, I don’t even remember that show. But the 73rd ranked show that week was once a hero. It got a 4.6 rating and a nine share. Just think about that. The 73rd ranked show got a 4.6 rating and a nine share. If you exclude any football or last week in television, ratings exclude football games.
I’m going over last week, so. Sunday Night Football is the most watched show on television on any given week. That was the Cowboys Packers game, and then the NFL Monday Night Football, N-F-L-N-F-L, regional Games, Thursday Night Football, Saturday Night College Football, Saturday night, big 10 Football, A B, C, world News Tonight in 60 Minutes.
Those were the top 10 shows. So I’m just going down this list, trying to find the first network television show on this list. And. Obviously Network Television 60 Minutes is a network television show. It’s on CBS on Sunday nights, but it follows football, so that’s why it gets good ratings. But I’m trying to find like a scripted television show.
What’s the first show that is the most watched right now or the A week ago and it would be Dancing With the Stars and Dancing With the Stars. Got 5.46 million viewers. 5.46 million viewers and the 73rd ranked show back in 1987
got 4.6. So basically dancing with the stars would be 73rd. It would move ahead of once a hero, but it’s behind the 72nd ranked show legwork, which got 6 million. That just shows you how TV has changed and you might not care very much about this stuff ’cause maybe a lot of you weren’t alive. In 1987, I was a young spry, 12 years old and tv, I watched all those shows.
I watched Cosby show. I was indifferent on a different world. Sometimes I watched it, sometimes I didn’t. But growing pains, cheers. Moonlighting Golden Girls, who’s the boss? Murder. She wrote in Family Ties. I watched all those and keep going down further. Number 12, Alf. My God, I watched Alf all the time. I did a video my senior year of high school where I did an ALF impression, and if you ask me to do it on this podcast, I will tell you, not a chance in hell, but I remember I did a video.
Senior year of high school where somehow I incorporated an ALF impression into it. I couldn’t even think, I couldn’t even fathom doing that now, but I liked watching the show. Alright, I want to end with this email that was sent end of last week in regards to Big Brother. It’s a lot of questions in this email, so we’re gonna get through them.
He said, Hey, Steve, when Vince lost part two of the HOH competition and started screaming at himself, do you think he had any professional therapist speak to him? I don’t know if he did, but he should have because that was one of the weirder crash outs we’ve ever seen ever on television. But yet, literally a week later, spoiler alert, if you haven’t seen, love Is Blind.
Six episodes. Edmond’s crash out at the end of episode six Last week might be the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen on television, and I’m trying to get some answers to this. I have theories, but I’m curious about answers. The next thing he asked was, do you believe Ashley winning was the most exciting, interesting outcome?
Would you rather have seen Morgan win the HOH to see if she would evict Vince? I have no problem with Ashley winning and hearing Ashley on her post win interviews that she’s done. I’m totally fine with her winning. And the thing is, I would’ve been totally fine with Morgan winning. Morgan didn’t win because Ashley did the right thing by not taking her to the finals.
’cause if Ashley takes her to the finals, Morgan probably beats her. And she knew that that’s why she eliminated her. So I have no problem with Ashley winning. She was playing the game. Did it make it boring? Not really to me because while her speech was very robotic and it seemed like she was just memorizing lines and she wasn’t really, didn’t have a great flow to it, it all made sense to me and I knew that she would destroy Vince and she did.
He also said, I knew Vince was toast when most of the jury expressed hoping he was the final juror. Kelly laughing during his answer didn’t help. Yeah. Not to mention when Morgan walked out as the third and final juror, or not the third final juror, the third place finisher, and the final juror, meaning everybody knew that Vince and Ashley were the final two.
Rachel literally started crying, so you already knew her where her vote was going. Do you think Morgan’s saying she would’ve evicted Vince and telling Julie they had a friendship, was just trying to help their reputations? What’s interesting is Morgan, while she has been very vocal and she has tweeted a lot, and she has posted a ton on Instagram stories since the season ended, she hasn’t really talked very much about the show and the times that she has.
She’s been vague. A lot of people think she’s throwing shade. But someone like Ashley is literally rewatching the season right now and literally tweeting out her thoughts on every episode that she watches. It’s really weird how some people are embracing this and maybe Ashley’s embracing it because she’s the winner, and Morgan, maybe Morgan is still a little hurt that she didn’t win.
But Ava has basically disappeared off the map. Vince has essentially disappeared off the map outside of people, paparazzi, getting pictures of him. Morgan is talking about it a lot, but she’s not really going into any sort of gameplay or anything like that. Ashley and Jimmy and Zach and Lauren, those, all those people have no problem talking about the show, but it’s just, it’s really interesting to see who’s up for talking about what happened and who isn’t.
And Morgan is definitely, while she’s been active on social media, she’s really not discussing the show at all. I saw claims on Facebook that Vince indicated he was unemployed because he has not found any job that interests him. I think Big Brother was his entire life slash work plan. I need a 30 minute documentary on who enables this lifestyle and how he got a multi-year relationship.
Yeah, I mean, we know that he was unemployed, but do we know how long he’s been unemployed for? Like how he lives in Los Angeles? How are you unemployed and living in la? It doesn’t either. He has some sort of trust fund. His parents help pay for him. I know that he’s living with his parents. Right, but he still has to live, right?
Yeah. I don’t know. I don’t know. Maybe he was only unemployed for a couple months leading into Big Brother, but he absolutely, he said it numerous times on the show. He even said it in all of his post show interviews. I love this show. This show, like he was talking about at the end of the show in the last week inside the house.
He was saying, I kind of don’t wanna leave. I don’t wanna go back to my life. Like I think VS. Has some things he needs to work through, to say the least. I was kind of shocked to learn that there was an actual mystery this season. How was anyone supposed to know that they should be looking for clues as to the identity of the mastermind?
Maybe it would’ve been more interesting to tell the house guests the mystery and give a prize for the first correct solution. Yeah, that’s kind of what I mentioned in that. When they exposed to us who these three masterminds were, it was like, and like it’s very easy to say after the fact, but when we’re watching it, how are we as the viewers supposed to look for that stuff?
How are the house guests supposed to look for that stuff? And even if they did and went back to their room at night and said, Hey, you noticed that the mastermind had this on his hip. It would’ve been like, okay, they, they noticed something on his hip and what if they even would’ve gone as far as to deduce, oh, that means it must be this person.
It would’ve just been a talking point, like I think there should have been some sort of reward. Like you say, maybe you automatically get head of household. Maybe you automatically are immune from being on the block that week. I don’t know. But that whole mastermind twist ended up being a giant flop, which this show does a lot, unfortunately.
Over promise and underperform. It’s basically what you can almost call Big Brother. They can change its name too, over promise and underperform. And finally, this person said in the email for Golden Bachelor and Love is Blind Fans. I recommend. Love is Blinds Brazil. Last season, the age range was 50 to 72.
I knew they had elevens blind in other countries. I’ve just never watched any of them. But it seems like that is the Well, they’re just a, they’re getting, basically adding another 10 years of contestants. ’cause we know Golden Bachelor outside of one woman this season and Mark last season, every contestant has been over 60 years old.
And then for Love is Blind. What is the age range? 24, 25 to about 35, 36. So age range in love is blind. Brazil was 50 to 72. Maybe they will do in the us maybe they will do a version that’s just older. Maybe they’ll do 45 to 60. 45 to 65. ’cause we have kind of seen the same thing for nine seasons. Same type of people.
They just moved to a different city. It’s like, okay. We get it. Maybe they want to at least one time try an older version of a season. Anyway, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple Podcasts. Also rate and review. But you gotta hit play. It’s the only way it counts as a download.
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