Vh1 Top TV Shows We Lie about [not] Watching

Vh1 Top TV Shows We Lie about [not] Watching by Roxanne McDonald

And [not just] from this writer and TV freak’s less than humble and scathingly truthful point of view….

Okay, so I watch shows you might not want to fess up about watching, never mind being hooked on. And so the following accolades include those for those very shows that many won’t even admit to watching and liking…. But, hey, the numbers say otherwise:

THE OLD SHOWS

Flavor of Love

With a Nielsen rating of in conjunction with an audience of 5.9 million by the finale of season one of “Flavor of Love” and a season 2 premiere audience of 5.9 million, the finale of the second season had pulled a staggering 7.5 million—making that episode alone the most watched non-sports cable show of the TV week that week (according to E! News).

The show to watch for African Americans aged 18 to 49, “Flavor of Love,” Vh1 said, was its highest rated telecast ever. Until New York came along, that is….

I Love New York

The VH1 reality competition show that spun off not only “Flavor of Love” but “The Bachelor” and then, of course, “The Bachelorette” pulled in 4.4 million viewers, earned a 2.55

Nielsen Media Research rating for its 9PM ET/PT premiere, according to Multichannel News and Reality TV, and was cited as the number one Vh1 show (highest rated in the history of Vh1 programming).Surreal Life/Fame Game

I don’t know if this is connected to Nielsen ratings, but at TV.com, the stats hold fairly strong for “The Surreal Life”: Popularity Rank is 495, but that’s out of 16,518 voters; and the Ratings Rank is 1,992 of 16,518.

THE NEW and/or CONTINUING SHOWS

Celebrity Fit Club

The 2005 numbers show (according to The Futon Critic) that Vh1’s “Celebrity Fit Club” earned a rating of between 1.0 and 1.4 in the 18 to 49 demographic. The first full season pulled a healthy 1.4 million viewers, while the series featuring Daniel Baldwin, Kim Coles, Judge Mablean Ephriam, Joe Gannascoli, Biz Markie, Ralphie May, Mia Tyler and Wendy the Snapple Lady drew 1.8 million.

Charm School

“Charm School” made the fourth spot in the ratings, drawing 5.1 million viewers in its premiere episode. Pretty decent rankings for the first season and show, one which will likely catch up with it’s parent show, “Flavor of Love,” within the next few weeks of 2007.

Acceptable TV

I haven’t been able to locate the “proof” of the popularity of this show by way of ratings, yet, but if the website for “Acceptable TV” were functioning (damnit), I could at least do

a browsing count of submissions/ votes, whathaveyou.Springer Hustle

And according to The Blogspot, “The Springer Hustle” premiere had a decent 1.5 rating, drawing 2.3 million total viewers in the 18 to 49 demographic range.

So with other leading shows like “Breaking Bonaduce” and “Hogan Knows Best,” for example, Vh1 is said (by writers at USA Today) to have survived the burn-out of “Behind the Music” by bringing nostalgia to baby boomers—setting a channel record in 2005 of 618,000 prime-time viewers…up 20% from 2004 USA Today).

So those numbers are likely even higher this many great (admit it) shows two years later.

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