Crash the Nielsens

I actually have 3 diaries. they send 1 for each TV, but right now only 1 TV actually gets used, so I technically have 3 "votes" at once. since I watch almost exclusively on DVR and a lot of my favorite shows seem to air simultaneously, that should come in handy.

James, it's a shame you don't have time to write posts today because you could have written about Jon Stewart's epic takedown of CNBC on last night's Daily Show. Truly one of their most relevant and impassioned segments, one that sort of proves the point that the best investigative journalism is sadly being done by a comedy program.

Friday Night Lights. I'm not sure it'll matter to NBC unless they get another sharing agreement w/ Direct tv but it's worth a shot. Save coach and mrs. coach.
Oh and How I met your Mother in the past always seemed to be on a bubble of some sort.

Copying from the Lost thread, to keep the discussion together:
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Well, there's two separate goals to Nielsen recordings: encouraging a network to have a show to return next year and encouraging the network to run all the episodes from this season this year. IMO:
Life: Will run through all its episodes and will not return next year, period; Nielsen recording irrelevant.
FNL: Will run through all its episodes and will only return through the funding of DirectTV; Nielsen recording irrelevant.*
Dollhouse: Will run through all its episodes and unlikely to return next year; Nielsen recording useful on the second count.
Chuck: Will run through all its episodes and may return next year; Nielsen recording useful on the second count.
Reaper: May or may not run through all its episodes and will not return next year; Nielsen recording useful on the first count.
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So to summarize: report Reaper if you want to see all the episodes on TV, rather than DVD; report Dollhouse & Chuck if you want to see another season; reporting Life & FNL is irrelevant.
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*Yes, FNL is irrelevant. The FNL ratings are bad - about equal to what Deal or No Deal & Dateline were/are doing. So the literal only hope it has is that DirecTV picks up enough of the costs that FNL costs NBC less per episode than producing Dateline (which is questionable). Yes, if archstanton can somehow manage to count as millions of people, it would make the math easier, but the deciding factor is solely DirecTV. (And that is disregarding that NBC has one less hour to schedule on Fridays next year.)

Chuck and Dollhouse, please. I think it's highly unlikely that Dollhouse gets a second season, but I'm hoping to see all of the episodes produced. I'm thinking FNL is already done, but I'm kind of OK with it. Because I'm a Matt Saracen fan, Matt's a senior, and I have no interest in watching J.D. McCoy deal with his whack-job father for the next three years.
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BTW, it's 2009 and I can watch tv shows on my computer and on devices smaller than a pack of cigarettes, and TV ratings are still being done by diary? This thread shows how accurate that is. Nice job, Nielson!

I vote Chuck. I'm going to miss Life, but I know that that vote is useless.

"The Beast," Patrick Swayze's A&E series....and "Life," love that show.

With BSG and FNL nearing their ends I may as well forget about replacing my dying TV. The only shows left worth following are HIMYM and Lost, which ends after one more season. Somebody please create something to replace these outstanding shows!
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I'll miss Life, too.