According to Nielsen.com last year, NCIS (also a Thursday night competitor) is the third most watched show, after American Idol and The Voice (fourth if you count both American Idol shows separately); it's followed by a few other CBS crime shows. On Zap2It, more up to date, their "social tv rankings" (I think based on indexing social media source mentions), this past week some Oprah Network reality show is in top place, followed by AI, Voice, Family Guy, SNL, and Glee; for yesterday, Vampire Diaries, AI, Grey's, Tosh.0, Scandal (need to see that show), Punk'd, BBT, something on A&E, and Community. I just don't think you can compete against the big talent reality shows unless you put your sitcoms on another night and put up your own talent show against them (which they could do, since The Voice is so high ranking, but they probably worry that AI would just take away all the Voice watchers). Ratings are important to them, but given the quality of the other sitcoms they've been trying to put in the Thursday night lineup, their choice is between "few people watch it, but it wins awards and gets great reviews" and "few people watch it and all the critics hate it".
My mom has channel-surfed into Community, always in the least pickupable episodes, and been really confused, so yes, I agree.
It definitely does seem like a modernized version of domcoms! I think that's what they were doing on purpose, actually. I never liked the originals, maybe that's why I like it.
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Date: 2012-05-11 08:14 pm (UTC)My mom has channel-surfed into Community, always in the least pickupable episodes, and been really confused, so yes, I agree.
It definitely does seem like a modernized version of domcoms! I think that's what they were doing on purpose, actually. I never liked the originals, maybe that's why I like it.