As of this past Monday, the CW has aired four episodes of Valor. The viewership and ratings of each individual episode remains lower than those of the shows previously cancelled by the network. It is noteworthy to acknowledge that there was, however, a ratings increase the fourth week. After episode two aired with .99 million viewers and received a .23 rating, the third week dropped significantly to .88 million viewers with a .19 rating. Yet the most recent episode, which aired October 30^th, drew in .95 million viewers and raised the rating to a .20.

Monday night football games tend to have an effect on television programs airing the same nights, but Valor attracts a completely separate demographic. While football targets male viewers, the CW tends to provide programming more geared towards females. More specifically, Valor is meant to be a female-driven military drama that allows for a storyline not necessarily common in female-targeted content. Because sporting events are not a considerable factor for this specific program, it is interesting to see a spike in ratings for the show.

Based on these numbers, websites like TV Guide predict Valor will be cancelled once The CW is ready to bring in the midseason series.

And finally, as predicted, Ten Days in the Valley has reached its inevitable yet slow-coming death. On October 26^th, ABC made the executive decision to do two things to it’s lowest rating show: first, Ten Days in the Valley is being taken off scheduling until December, which is a definite precursor to cancelation. Second, ABC is airing only two episodes in December, although initially, they anticipated airing all ten, in addition to shooting a second season.

As a replacement to the worst rated new series on the Big 4 broadcast networks this fall, bringing in a 0.4 rating among the money demographic, ABC will air back-to-back new episodes of one of their highest rated shows, Shark Tank. Additionally, The American Music Awards is airing on November 19^th, so ABC will only have one week of filling in Ten Days in the Valley’s original time slot before it’s return in December.

It will be interesting to watch how Shark Tank’s second episode of the night does in replacement of Ten Days in the Valley. Will the second episode attracted equally as many eyes as the first episode did, or will viewers tune out after one hour?

The 7th annual iHeartRadio Music Festival took place on Friday and Saturday Sept 22-23 at Las Vegas at MGM Grand. It is marketed as the biggest musical names coming together for an incredible weekend. Tickets sold out within 10 mins of its release. Still, there were contests to win tickets, meet celebrities, and get VIP access. If someone did not get a ticket, a Live Stream aired on iHeartRadio. During the iHeartRadio Music Festival stream, there were 53862 promos. 25,000 people were expected to attend the live show. It was hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Elvis Duran, both of whom have shows on iHeartRadio. The festival alone had 13 national partners and one marquee partner, all of which were visible upon entering its website. The CW originally was going to air the festival to television Oct 4th and Oct 5th both a 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM. However, in light of the Las Vegas shooting (where the festival was held) in early October, the airing was postponed. After almost a month later, there has still been no word of a new airing date.

Let the Shifting Begin

This week Thursday Night Football has begun and CBS takes week 4, so in preparation, the network is starting to prepare their TV lineup and that means some shifting is afoot.

Superior Donuts starring the familiar Judd Hirsch who got his comedy chops on Taxi will have its second season premiere this week at 9:00 pm EST / 8:00 pm Central following 9JKL.Perhaps CBS feels this is a better fit than Kevin Can Wait. Me, Myself and I still leads into Scorpion. Big Bang will move to Thursday nights.

What’s interesting about this change though, in an interview with Edward Hersh, a TV consultant based out of New York City, is that he explained that because of a ratings dive from comedy to drama on Monday nights between Big Bang and a procedural, Scorpion was developed that ties the two together therefore holding the ratings for CBS’ Monday nights. This isn’t the first time for this shift as both shows can stand on their own now, but without a Big Bang lead in, it may affect the new kids, 9JKL and Me, Myself and I.

9JKL’s new lead-in is Kevin Can Wait, though the ratings jumped up a touch last week, Kevin Can Wait, with it’s major casting change may not be the best lead-in, but appears to be all CBS has for that Monday night line up. The Eye also doesn’t want to move time slots of its two freshman early in the game either.

The move is interesting to note too as Deadline.com also noticed that there are three multi-cam sit-coms in a row and there haven’t been any back-orders placed by the network yet for their two new shows. They could as 9JKL’s ratings did go up though.

It’ll be interesting to see if this move makes waves next week and any back-orders are placed.

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It was shocking to see this week that Will & Grace’s total viewership dropped again this week. The show’s viewership has now fallen almost 40% since it first aired a month ago. With that being said the show still got 6.51 million viewers, which is simply nothing to squawk at.

Although the dive in viewers isn’t great, Will & Grace got a major merit this week. Grey’s Anatomy is a longtime favorite show for Thursday night viewers and has been on the air since Will & Grace left 11 years ago. It captured the hearts of Thursday night viewers and is normally the most watched scripted show on Thursday nights, but with its absence this week Will & Grace was able to take that title! This is no small feat for a CBS sitcom- for example the sitcom “The Good Place” which is Will & Graces lead in got only 3.92 million viewers this week- nearly half of what Will & Grace raked in. Hopefully next week Will & Grace is able to keep their title and even raise back up in viewership.

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Valor has now aired three episodes, and each week the viewership has continued to decline. After the 20.35% decline between the first and second week, the CW network has now seen an additional 18.06% drop for the third episode for the key demo rating. The ratings came in at .19 for the key 18-49 demographic, with a total of 0.88 million viewers. If the viewership continues to drop to numbers lower than this, ‘Valor’ is at a serious risk of cancellation.

In comparison to the ratings of other network shows airing at the same time, the ‘Valor’s’ potential for success is not looking optimistic. Valor competes for the Monday 9pm time slot with already established fan bases for shows like ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and ‘The Voice.’ ABC’s ‘Dancing with the Stars has continuously brought in viewership of approximately 8 million, while NBC’s ‘The Voice’ averages 9-10 million viewers.

It is too soon to determine Valor’s future, however the ratings for the first three episodes do not indicate a huge breakout hit the CW President hoped the military drama would prove to be. While the network was attempting to diversify programming with an off-brand series, number of viewers illustrates a disconnect. Although the major networks like ABC and NBC are known to reign in more viewers than the CW, there is a major gap in the difference between these ratings. While ‘The Voice’ and ‘Dancing with the Stars’ have an established fan base, ‘Valor’s’ viewership of under a million does put the show at risk for cancellation.