|
Post by -|E|- on Mar 24, 2006 20:43:53 GMT -5
Shield Scores By Anne Becker -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/24/2006 11:01:00 AM The Shield season five finale earned 2.0 million adults 18-49 Tuesday night (March 21), tying with MTV’s Real World for the most viewed show in the demo that night and nearly tripling the network’s first quarter average in the demo. The episode, which ran from 10 p.m. to 11:35 p.m., brought in 3.2 million total viewers. The Shield's 11-episode fifth season saw audience losses from last year, dropping 10% in the demo to an average 2.0 million viewers and 13% in total viewers to an average 2.8 million. It was up in both categories over season three, though. The Shield will be back with a sixth season in early 2007. Production on 10 new episodes starts April 10 and is slated to run through August. FX will decide later this spring whether to go ahead with a seventh season after that. The season-five finale will run again March 26 at 10 p.m. ET.
|
|
|
Post by jimmycracker on Mar 24, 2006 20:49:21 GMT -5
What... now it's a 6th season instead of the 2nd half of season 5? Make up your minds, people.
|
|
|
Post by fju2112 on Mar 27, 2006 13:54:34 GMT -5
why not call it season 6; it'll start a year after season 5 started. the season 5/split thing only would have made sense if they were airing the new shows in september or something.
|
|
|
Post by Cletus Van Damme on Mar 27, 2006 14:57:25 GMT -5
Yeah, plus we get the DVD sooner, too
|
|
|
Post by BenYankee on Mar 27, 2006 14:58:10 GMT -5
Yeah, at this point, it's hard not to call it season 6. It's a really looooong break.
|
|
|
Post by shadow on Apr 2, 2006 0:48:41 GMT -5
the spilt is so that when the show picks up it doesnt have to fallow its own rule of "jumping 3 months ahead".... otherwise vic would be out of a job-his whole forced into retirment bullshit
|
|
|
Post by jimmycracker on Apr 2, 2006 4:36:31 GMT -5
Heh, shadow, you're in portland oregon and the same age as me. Just curious... what school do you go to?
|
|
|
Post by jwc53531 on Apr 3, 2006 21:15:14 GMT -5
here's what the new Entertainment Weekly (April 7, 2006) had to say:
Forest Whitaker is no Glen Close. Yes, his stint as an off-kilter Internal Affairs lieutenant on FX's The Shield was just as critically lauded as Close's turn last season as a sterncaptain, but Season 5 of the gritty cop drama concluded its 11-episode run MArch 21 with an average of 2.8 million viewers - down 13 percent from last year.
-------end-------
doesn't bode well for a season beyond the next ten eps - I'll bet CBS is licking its chops hoping SR brings some Shield people over to The Unit and maybe capture some more of the Shield audience
|
|
|
Post by Janice on Jun 26, 2006 17:58:35 GMT -5
Anyone know when the offical release date for Season 5 on DVD?
|
|