Criminal Minds fails to pull off Super Bowl win
There was speculation on just how well Criminal Minds would perform when it aired in the post-Super Bowl time slot. After all, 38 million viewers watched Grey’s Anatomy post-Super Bowl episode last year, and catipulted it to superstar status. So how did Criminal Minds too in the same slot?
Well, it had its highest number of viewers for the show ever - 26.2 million viewers, up about 10 million from usual airings of new Criminal Minds episodes. However, it fell far below the huge 38 million strong audience that Grey’s Anatomy pulled in last year.
Maybe Criminal Minds needed to start off the show with a sexy multi-girl shower scene to kick it all off and entice the guys to stick around. However, I suspect that just as many women last year only indulged their boyfriends or hubbies watching the Super Bowl if they then watched Grey’s Anatomy, but I am sure that the shower scene was all the guys needed to convince them to follow through!
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February 7th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
At our super bowl party, we were all bummed that there was no Amazing Race or Survivor or Grey’s Anatomy. As soon as we realized it was Criminal Minds, we turned off the TV and turned on the music.