Movers and Shakers - The Top Ten TV Shows From the Week of January 18
26 Jan
Posted by: Bryan Bennett in: Movers and Shakers, Stats, TV Networks
One of the great things about having over 16 million registered users across 200 plus online communities dedicated to TV shows is that we get a ton of data about what our users are doing. The TVLoop Movers and Shakers Top Ten List is a pretty simple measurement of the shows that added the most users to their respective communities in the previous week. And the good news is that you don’t need a PhD in mathematics from MIT to understand how our list is put together. The more users a show added to it’s community, the higher on the list it will be. So without further adieu, I give you the Top Ten from the week of January 18, 2009:
There are a few surprises on the list, but the big one is The L Word which continues to strenghten it’s foothold in the top five after returning to the air a few weeks ago. Others, including Lost, Scrubs, and The Simpsons also recently returned to the air after a hiatus which explains the renewed interest in those shows.
When comparing the TVLoop Top Ten to the Nielsen Top 2 from the same week, only 24 and Grey’s Anatomy are on both lists. Part of the reason could be because of the NFL games and American Idol that dominated the ratings last week, but it’s also related to the online buzz vs broadcast ratings that we documented here back in December. Many of the shows that get big ratings don’t necessarily have the passionate fans and borderline cult-like following as is often the case in the TVLoop Top Ten.
The TVLoop Top Ten TV shows from the week of January 18. A few surprises here http://tinyurl.com/ahksev
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[...] for position among the usual suspects in the top five or six, eight of the top ten were on the list the previous week. The newcomers are Scrubs and One Tree Hill which replaced 24 and Rescue Me. I assumed Rescue [...]