How is HIMYM doing in the rankings?
Everett writes in with the following questions:
How is How I Met Your Mother doing in the ratings? Will the show be back for a 3rd season? I can’t find any information on this or how CBS feels about the show. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
I have also been looking for this information, so I thought I’d put the question to you. Have you found any info on if there will be a 3rd season? All I have seen are the weekly ratings and those seem to be pretty good. How I Met Your Mother is either at the top or near the top for Monday night ratings, and as we mentioned on the Monday Night Football podcast, that episode was the show’s highest rated episode.
March 3rd, 2007 at 3:54 am
If CBS doesn’t give HIMYM the green light on a third season, then they are dumber than I thought they were.
March 3rd, 2007 at 5:41 pm
I have to agree with Jon, with all the promos and sponsoring CBS is putting behind the show, I think a 3rd season has to be green lighted. I looked into it online, and one website, the Futon Critic, reported that CBS won the February sweeps for audiences aged 25-54 and finished second in audiences 18-49. Mother’s February 5th episode (”Monday Night Football”) was the season high for all viewers (10.61 million), audiences ages 18-34 and adults 18-49 (http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20070301cbs01)
The LA Times also had a great article on freshman shows looking to avoid sophomore slumps, with a lot of attention paid to Mother:
“Few first-year shows that survived to a second season felt more pressure than CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother,” a sitcom with the clever hook of a romance narrated through flashbacks from the future. Sitcoms, once the dominant force in prime-time television, have largely been killed off by reality programming and both serialized and procedural dramas. In fact, NBC’s hit game show “Deal or No Deal” nearly sent “Mother” to the graveyard.
“You can pinpoint where our show dipped, and that was when Howie [Mandel] and his stripper chicks came on and started kicking our ass,” said Craig Thomas, the show’s co-creator. “It’s just made it harder than ever to get people’s attention. We want to tell people, ‘Sitcoms still exist! We’re still here!’ ”
The rest can be found here: http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-sophomore2feb02,0,6777592.story?coll=cl-tv-features
Finally, there is the fact that 20th Century Fox TV signed writers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas to a multi-year deal, as reported by Variety: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117958529.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
Looks like we’ll have Mother for a while!