DeLay Doesn't Do It for "Dancing" Ratings
Lisa DeMoraes
The TV Column
WashPost
ABC's decision to invite disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to participate in "Dancing with the Stars" may have backfired.
Monday's much ballyhooed ninth-edition debut of the ballroom dance competition attracted an average audience of 17.5 million viewers, according to early Nielsen stats.
That's the show's smallest opening audience since its very first year on the air, when viewers were still getting to know the imported BBC-produced reality series.
The last two fall editions both opened with more than 21 million viewers tuned in. Delay's opening numbers are also puny compared to the more than 20 million people who turned in to the debut in September of '06, when Jerry Springer was one of the competitors. DeLay's relationship with "Dancing" dates back to that edition -- he sent an e-mail blast around America back then, urging people to vote for one of Springers dance rivals, country crooner Sara Evans, because she and her GOP-fundraiser husband represented "good American values" while liberal talk-show host Springer represented the "smut" that viewers needed to tell Hollywood, in no uncertain terms, "has no place on television."
(More here.)
The TV Column
WashPost
ABC's decision to invite disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to participate in "Dancing with the Stars" may have backfired.
Monday's much ballyhooed ninth-edition debut of the ballroom dance competition attracted an average audience of 17.5 million viewers, according to early Nielsen stats.
That's the show's smallest opening audience since its very first year on the air, when viewers were still getting to know the imported BBC-produced reality series.
The last two fall editions both opened with more than 21 million viewers tuned in. Delay's opening numbers are also puny compared to the more than 20 million people who turned in to the debut in September of '06, when Jerry Springer was one of the competitors. DeLay's relationship with "Dancing" dates back to that edition -- he sent an e-mail blast around America back then, urging people to vote for one of Springers dance rivals, country crooner Sara Evans, because she and her GOP-fundraiser husband represented "good American values" while liberal talk-show host Springer represented the "smut" that viewers needed to tell Hollywood, in no uncertain terms, "has no place on television."
(More here.)
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