{"id":1623,"date":"2015-02-16T05:37:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T05:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2015-02-19T17:05:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T17:05:02","slug":"the-slap-premieres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/02\/16\/the-slap-premieres\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slap Premieres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Slap<\/em> premiered last Thursday to less than <a href=\"http:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/2015\/02\/13\/tv-ratings-thursday-the-blacklist-sinks-backstrom-rises-the-slap-opens-soft\/362895\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tvbythenumbers+%28TVbytheNumbers%29\">stellar ratings<\/a>. It earned a 1.1 rating, with a 4 share in the 18-49 group. Its total viewership was 5.1 million overall. It had a decent amount of competition, which is important to consider. It went up against ratings powerhouse\u00a0<em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em>, which got higher numbers despite being a repeat. On Fox and ABC, it was up against\u00a0<em>American Idol\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/em> respectively, two shows with a loyal and established audience. On the bright side, <i>The Slap<\/i> was NBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/2015\/02\/13\/the-slap-earns-nbcs-second-best-regular-programming-timeslot-result-this-season-in-total-viewers\/363017\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tvbythenumbers+%28TVbytheNumbers%29\">second best regular programming timeslot result<\/a> this season. Time will tell if it get gain an audience in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>As far as reviews for the show, it currently holds a 5.4\/10 on IMDb. The reviews themselves are mixed, but most find the characters to be terrible people which could prove to be problematic. They also praise NBC for taking a risk and making a show one would expect to see on Showtime or HBO, not broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slap premiered last Thursday to less than stellar ratings. It earned a 1.1 rating, with a 4 share in the 18-49 group. Its total viewership was 5.1 million overall. It had a decent amount of competition, which is important &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/02\/16\/the-slap-premieres\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[377],"tags":[393,162,257,102,266,224,91,392,207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}