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'The Bachelor' bumps 'Samantha Who?' off ABC
Topic Started: Jan 22 2009, 04:41 AM (705 Views)
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'The Bachelor' bumps 'Samantha Who?' off ABC
By Rick Porter
January 21, 01:11 PM

Thanks to a certain single dad, you won't be seeing a certain single woman on ABC for a while longer.

The network has decided to keep airing two-hour episodes of The Bachelor for the rest of its run this winter, thanks to fairly decent ratings for this cycle. That means that Samantha Who?, which had been scheduled to return to ABC's Monday lineup next week, is for the moment homeless. The network says an announcement about the show's future -- which despite this development seems fairly solid -- will come in the next few days.

ABC's decision is a ratings-driven one, thanks to some gravity-defying numbers for current Bachelor Jason Mesnick. ABC has touted the appeal of the single dad, who was the final rejectee on The Bachelorette last summer, and it appears the network is right.

The audience for the show has grown in each of the past three weeks, starting with 8.7 million viewers for the Jan. 5 premiere, improving to 9.06 million the following week and hitting 9.9 million on Monday (Jan. 19) while winning all the key female demographics. Monday's improvement is all the more impressive considering the stiffer competition the show faced this week, with FOX's new House-24 lineup and new episodes of CBS' comedies.

By comparison, the most recent edition of The Bachelor, starring Londoner Matt Grant, and The Bachelorette both averaged 7.9 million viewers over their runs.

Samantha Who? had been doing reasonably well this year, averaging a little under 10 million viewers this week. But those numbers were mostly the result of airing after Dancing with the Stars; when it didn't have the reality hit as a lead-in, its audience dropped below 7 million viewers.

I have long since checked out of The Bachelor, but I understand ABC's decision from a business standpoint. Mondays from 8 to 10 p.m. may be the most competitive two hours in all of primetime now, so if I were running the network I wouldn't want to mess with a show that's growing week to week.

And if I were running the network, I think I'd have a way to get Samantha Who? back on the schedule sooner rather than later. It seems simple, and it's something I and more than a few of you have brought up in previous posts: Pair it with Scrubs on Tuesday nights.

The two shows have similar sensibilities and styles, and teaming them up would allow ABC to extend Scrubs' season further into the spring. If the network keeps running back-to-back episodes (as is currently the plan), the show's season will be over by March.

So why not, ABC? Putting these two shows on Tuesdays would create a pretty decent hour-long comedy block on the night, and could provide anchors for your new shows -- Better Off Ted, In the Motherhood and The Goode Family -- later this season. We look forward to your announcement (even if you don't take our advice).
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I think their both awful shows, and I don't know how either are still on the air. LOL. I'm harder on Sam Who because it's scripted - and blows.
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Jan 22 2009, 01:20 PM
I think their both awful shows, and I don't know how either are still on the air. LOL. I'm harder on Sam Who because it's scripted - and blows.
The Bachelor is on because of people like my mother and Jinx!
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^LMAO!


The winner has already been spoiled! Stop watching!

Did you know the Bachelor is taped in only a month time span?
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Screwing over SW for The Bachelor? Are you fucking serious, ABC?

As if I didn't hate that shit enough, already.
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I wish they'd just cancel SM already. ABC will never be happy with it.
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I like The Bachelor but 2 hours? All they do is extent the rose ceremony for like 45 minutes which is not needed. One hour is good enough.
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Jan 22 2009, 05:56 PM
^LMAO!


The winner has already been spoiled! Stop watching!

Did you know the Bachelor is taped in only a month time span?
Yeah, all reality shows are. ANTM as well.
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I knew the competition ones were.

But I thought maybe the dating ones were longer since they wanted to get to know the person before they...you know...proposed. Haha.
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I was shocked that The Surreal Life was taped in 2 weeks.


I thought there were in the house for months LOL
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