Showing posts with label Blood and Oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blood and Oil. Show all posts

Monday, September 28, 2015

'Quantico' Premieres to Solid Ratings, Modest Start for 'Blood & Oil'

Priyanka Chopra stars in Quantico. Photo Credit: ABC/Guy D'Alema
The Fast Affiliate Live + Same Day ratings are in for Sunday, September 27, and ABC's new serial Quantico got off to a strong start, with mixed results for the network's other dramas.

The fifth season premiere of Once Upon a Time topped its May Sweep averages (5.4 million and 1.7/6) in Total Viewers (+9%) and Adults 18-49 (+6%), but was down 49% from last year, notching a 1.8 rating and 5.87 million viewers at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

At 9 p.m., the series premiere of Blood & Oil (6.3 million and 1.4/4 in Adults 18-49) grew 7% in total viewers over its lead-in, but was down 36% from Resurrection's performance a year ago.

At 10 p.m., Quantico (7.1 million and 1.9/6 in Adults 18-49) shot up 36% over its lead-in and beat the final hour of CBS' CSI finale by 12% in Adults 18-49 (1.9/6 vs. 1.7/5). Despite its late time slot, the new ABC drama held steady on the half-hour among young adults. Quantico drew ABC's largest audience in the hour with regular programming since May 2012 and equaled its best young adult number since September 2012.

Quantico built sharply over ABC's year-ago premiere of Revenge in the hour (5.1 million and 1.3/4 on 9/28/14), rising by 39% in Total Viewers and by 46% in Adults 18-49. Quantico also topped ABC's most recent series debut in the time period (Betrayal = 5.2 million and 1.5/4 on 9/29/13) by strong double digits in viewers (+37%) and young adults (+27%). Among Adults 18-49, Quantico stands as TV’s top-rated 10pm Sunday broadcast series debut in 3 years

ABC Total Viewer and Adult 18-49 Projections:
Once Upon a Time: L3 = 7.3 million/2.2 rating, L7 = 7.7 million/2.3 rating and MP+35 = 3.0 rating
Blood & Oil: L3 = 10.0 million/2.1 rating, L7 = 10.7 million/2.2 rating
Quantico: L3 = 11.2 million/2.9rating, L7 = 12.0 million/3.1 rating

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Patrick Duffy: 'Dallas' is "Finally and Ultimately Laid to Rest"

Patrick Duffy (right) believes ABC's new primetime oil soap fills
the Dallas void in the primetime TV landscape.
Patrick Duffy belives iconic drama Dallas may have vanished from TV screens forever. Duffy revisited his most famous role as Bobby Ewing when the legendary sex-and-scandal drama was resurrected by TNT in 2012, but it was cancelled last year after three seasons.

Despite an online campaign from fans to save the beloved series, Duffy has now accepted it will likely never return now that ABC is preparing to launch new primetime soap opera Blood and Oil, which features Don Johnson as the head of a Ewing-style clan.

Duffy tells Periscope.tv, "Dallas ,I think, is finally and ultimately laid to rest. I think the indication of that is, oddly enough, there's a new show and I believe it's on ABC and it's called Blood and Oil, and when Dallas was cancelled and ABC picked up that show... they decided there needs to be a Dallas-type show on air and there can really be only one of them so they are re-tooling Blood and Oil to be exactly like Dallas used to be, and I think that's an indication that nobody will resurrect Dallas again. Dallas is gone."

Does this logic even make sense?  When Dallas was at its height, there was another huge primetime "oil" soap on the air, Dynasty.  The working title for Dynasty was even Oil, the same name ABC's new show was using when it was announced in May.  It was later changed to Blood and Oil.

Blood and Oil premieres on Sunday, September 27 on ABC. Watch the trailer below: