NBC’s showing of theatrical movie, National Treasure led the meek offering of genre-related programming this past week on broadcast television. The Nick Cage-starring fantasy spy-fi adventure flick beat out repeat episodes of Ghost Whisperer and Chuck to take the genre crown in the few day before the Big 5 networks started rolling out their fall TV premieres.
The CW pre-empted showings of Reaper, Supernatural and Smallville for the debut and repeat airings of re-tread teen soap opera 90210 - a re-make of the 1980s FOX hit series.
Following are the ratings for speculative fiction shows that aired on the broadcast networks last week (August 29-September 4, 2008):
SHOW | [NETWORK] | Rating (Air Date)
- National Treasure [NBC] 1.8 [August 31]
- Ghost Whisperer [CBS] 1.4 (August 29)
- Chuck [CBS] 0.7 (August 30)
Source: Nielsen Media Research
credit where credit is due – please don’t go blaming the 80′s for 90210 as it started in 1990! Not our fault