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Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:38 PM

Don't know if this has been posted or not, but I was just looking around on TV.com (apparently TVTome has undergone a bit of a makeover...) and noticed a ranking of the top 25 shows based on user rating and daily views:

1 Family Guy 9.1
2 Lost 9.1
3 Futurama 9.1
4 24 9.1
5 Scrubs 9.1
6 Seinfeld 9.1
7 The Simpsons 9.1
8 Arrested Development 9.1
9 Stargate SG-1 9.1
10 Firefly 9.1
11 The Daily Show 9.1
12 Twin Peaks 9.1
13 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 9.0
14 South Park 9.0
15 The Shield 9.0
16 House 9.0
17 The X-Files 9.0
18 Justice League Unlimited 9.0
19 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 9.0
20 Angel 9.0
21 Chappelle's Show 9.0
22 Friends 9.0
23 Farscape 9.0
24 Inuyasha 9.0
25 CSI 9.0

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Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:43 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Shiny! Firefly is # 10.

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Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:24 PM

CYBERSNARK

And InuYasha is 24!

*is happy that an animé show placed, let alone a show that I actually love*

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Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:55 PM

BIKISDAD

OK, I have to plead ignorance here. How do they come up with rankings for such a mix of shows that includes shows not currently on the air (like Twin Peaks, which hasn't been on in years) and shows that are currently on, like Lost? Am I completely missing the point somehow?

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

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Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:38 PM

FLYINGTAMS

He told you at the top: Its based on user ratings and views of the pages.

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Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:51 PM

BIKISDAD

Quote:
Originally posted by FlyingTams:
He told you at the top: Its based on user ratings and views of the pages.

Uh, yes, I saw that. What I'm asking is how can they rate things like Twin Peaks, that haven't been on in a decade (or more) against things like Lost that are on right now? How can you have "user ratings" on something that hasn't been broadcast in ten years? See what I mean?

Maybe I'm not explaining this enough. If I wanted to give a user rating for Lost, I could go watch it on tv and come up with an opinion. If I wanted to do that for Twin Peaks, I couldn't - it's not on tv. So what I'm saying is, where are they getting those ratings? Are they really old ratings from years ago (for Twin Peaks) that they are comparing with current ratings for other shows? If so, that doesn't seem very realistic, so what are we really supposed to make of this list?

Does my question make a little more sense now?

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

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Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:23 PM

FLYINGTAMS

Quote:
Originally posted by bikisdad:

Uh, yes, I saw that. What I'm asking is how can they rate things like Twin Peaks, that haven't been on in a decade (or more) against things like Lost that are on right now? How can you have "user ratings" on something that hasn't been broadcast in ten years? See what I mean?

Not really - how can they have pages about any show that isn't on? Because someone out there still cares about it.
Twin Peaks is out on VHS and DVD. Fans of the show presumably rate it. I don't know how good the tv.com algorhitms are - perhaps only a couple of votes can skew it.

Pesonally I don't care much what the values are, just a bit of fun i guess.

Quote:
Originally posted by bikisdad:

If I wanted to do that for Twin Peaks, I couldn't - it's not on tv. So what I'm saying is, where are they getting those ratings? Are they really old ratings from years ago (for Twin Peaks) that they are comparing with current ratings for other shows?

They have nothing to do with broadcast ratings, its what people like.
I see McCloud will be out on DVD later this year, I might very well go in and vote for some of the episodes by then.

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Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:52 PM

BIKISDAD

OK, you're still not getting what I'm asking. You said it's not about broadcast ratings, it's about what people like. OK, I can tell I like Lost because I can turn on the tv and watch it (in fact, I could have done that just last night). Now, Twin Peaks - I've never seen it and I can't rate it because it's not on tv - so I can't even tell whether I would like it or not. Yes, I could buy the dvd, but I'm not going to do that unless I know beforehand that I would like it. Also, only season one is available on dvd. Season two is not.

So you see how the ratings must be skewed? If I went to that website to rate all those shows, I wouldn't be able to rate Twin Peaks - and that goes for lots of other people in my situation. Whereas, with Lost, literally ANYBODY could rate it.

You know what? I think I answered my own question, so never mind. The user ratings ARE necessarily skewed because of, well, the above reasons. So the list really doesn't have any meaning other than as a conversation piece, which is fine, I guess. I was just thrown by the numbers in front of the show listings because they seem to imply a particular ranking, but the ranking really doesn't mean anything - it's just meaningless numbers.

So, like I said, never mind. I actually wish I hadn't read this in the first place. It's about as good a use of time as reading my horoscope.

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

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Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:06 PM

FLYINGTAMS

Its not completely meaningless, it indicates what the users of TV.com likes - if it becomes big enough it might indicate what a large parts viewing audience likes. And a high rating might convince others to check it out.

Or not

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Friday, July 1, 2005 12:08 AM

GROUNDED

I would imagine a very low percentage of visitors actually rate the shows, so take that list as an indication of the most visited pages. Certainly not meaningless.

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