Monday Ratings: DWTS Lowest Performance Show Ever, Sing-Off Continues Slide

I think lack of viewer input is what really hurts the Sing Off as a format.  It’s difficult to get invested in one of these groups when you have no say in their advancement.  Plus the last two weeks of themes, hip hop and mash-up medleys, have done little to endear the majority of groups on stage to the viewers.

X-Factor might be indirectly hurting Sing Off now to. I know it’s not the same type of Groups, but now Sing Off is having to compete with another show with Group performers.
 
I really, really hope that NBC doesn’t beat The Voice into the ground. Putting Sing Off on two times a year obviously didn’t help it. NBC seems to overdo anything that looks like it has a shot, thus people get tired of it quicker (Remember when Biggest Loser actually had good ratings?), so I fear they’ll do it with The Voice when it returns. :(

Start watching my show, people! Lol! I’ve been watching Sing-Off since season 1 and will be a sad little panda if it goes away. So good.

Well, this is why NBC has horrible ratings now as whole. The way they program their shows is just stupid sometimes. Some of their best programming they would put at the worst times, they tend to over-schedule, or de-schedule their best shows, and worst they hardly treat their shows the respect they deserve. Fox sometimes follow suit, as they have been known to be cancel-crazy, and would have been in the same rut if it weren’t for Idol.

Bye bye Sing Off.  Sniff sniff. 

Nooooooo!!!! Don’t say that! :( Man, sing-off….I’m gonna say it, I found more singers I have been impressed with, on this show, than majority of the singers that are found on Idol and UK/US X-factor combined. Some serious undiscovered talent have merged that those other singing shows wouldn’t give a chance, not even on The Voice. So seeing this show in the ratings dump has upset me dearly.

Numbers for The Sing-Off are pathetic.  What is even worse is a decrease in viewers for the second hour since that means people who were watching it changed channels to watch something else or stopped watching TV.  Either way, Sing-Off couldn’t hold nearly 1M viewers.

I love love love the Sing-off.

That said, it doesn’t surprise me in the least that it’s not getting big network numbers in the fall tv season. Music nerd-dom doesn’t really appeal to a lot of casual viewers, I expect. And with groups rather than individuals participating, there’s no individual to become involved with and subconsciously envision as your tv son or tv girlfriend or tv alter ego living out your own dream on the silver screen. And it doesn’t foster viewer involvement in a horse race because it doesn’t have voting. You have to watch it because you’re interested in the music, and, what’s more, interested in whether people go off pitch, or lose their groove, or arrange songs badly. That’s really not a recipe for major popular entertainment.

They really need to put it back in an off-season. If they made it a summer show along with my also beloved SYTYCD, I’d be happy all summer long, for example.

Keisha, I so agree with you! There is more talent here than either Idol or X-Factor. It is the only sow of its ilk in which I get excited to see a new episode. Unfortunately I am the only person in my immediate group of friends who even know the show is on. Very few of us get to watch TV live as we are theatre folk, but from our conversations I know their DVR’s are set to the Monday comedies instead of this show!

I will be so sorry to see this one go. I love Ben Folds and I love to see performers actually perform without manipulation from the judges (or the sound editors) and with honest, constructive criticism.

Well my comment in support of The Sing-Off vanished, just like I fear the show will do!

I wish it wasn’t up against the Monday night comedies and, I guess, Dancing With The Stars (although my mother-in-law is the only person I know who watches that program).

It baffles me that so many more folk would rather watch the obviously manipulated performances of shows such as the X-Factor than watch true vocalists do their thing in such a nurturing enviroment!

@Quaribea… I disagree. Hip hop and top 40 superstar artists are obviously very popular so having those be the last 2 themes are unlikely to be the reasons for the poor ratings. The terrible scheduling on Monday nights in early fall is the problem IMO.
@TheGreatXL … The Sing-Off has only ever run 1 season per year. However, the first 2 seasons were much shorter (with fewer acts) and aired in early December against much less competition.

I think NBC should either return it to an early December short series or run it as a summer series.

Nooooo… :(

If they decide to run “The Sing-Off” as a summer show, please don’t let it be on the days that “So You Think You Can Dance” is on.  Last night I watched DWTS when “The Sing-Off” was on.

There are people over 45-50 years that simply do not like Hip Hop music.  However, they obviously want to please the tounger audiences.  Last night, my favorite tributes were for Elvis Presley and Queen.  I don’t know Alicia or Brittany’s music that well.  Of course, I am another demograph – the Seniors.

If they do return to the early winter format, it needs to be at least 8 weeks long.  I just don’t want the show to disappear.  IMO, they have the best judging panel of all the Reality Shows.

(What’s with having to have our comments approved?)

RemusL: The question isn’t whether Hip-hop is popular with the general public or not.  The question is whether hip-hop is popular with the sort of people who would otherwise be mildly/somewhat interested in watching a-capella groups sing on TV. 

My fear is that it would be going against SYTYCD.  I wouldn’t want that to happen, so I hope TPTB realize this.

I do see your posts ptslittlecomment!

I agree with Quaribea in that I wish the Sing Off was live with more viewer input prior to the very end.  I don’t think the scheduling helps, either.

DWTS ratings are going down because people are boycotting ABC due to the cancellation of AMC.  I won’t once JR Martinez is no longer on…..