0xDEADBEEF wrote:
Actually Mop Girl, and SP even more, are described as successes in the Japanese press. Their ratings are high for a late time slot.
They are so-so at best, definitely not successes :beatyou:
One common misconception of ratings are that they represent the population (i.e. 20% of people in Japan were watching Galileo between 9 and 10PM) which is totally wrong.
Ratings only represent the average (of the duration of that show) percentage of maybe couple of thousand TVs by Nielsen (or whatever organization gathering info) sampling systems attached
that were actually turned on were tuned in to that channel. This includes recording devices, which needs to tune in even though no one is watching.
If 200 out of 1000 people were watching Galileo it would get 20%.
Even if only 20 out of 100 saw a late night dorama, it would still record 20% in ratings.
All ratings of all TV stations combined
always equal to 100%.
Just because it's on a late time slot is not an excuse for garbage ratings like 7% for a major national TV station. But it should be lower because people usually watch more news etc than dorama in that hour due to habit. That article must have been written in earlier episodes when they were still in acceptable ratings.
Quality of competing programs usually affect ratings the most, like that baseball game, which probably grabbed a lot of Galileo viewers away. We say some time slots are worse than others because competing shows might be tougher on different days of week, but late night... It's usually routine vs news and reruns.