Uh…as frequently as these things are rerun? Multiple times a night, almost every night? Maybe some, but surely not all that many are seeing them for the first time.

Not only do they watch it, they re-watch it endlessly on Adult Swim, as FG is consistently among the top-rated cable programs.

Congratulations to NBC for SOM's 4.6 demo rating last night, the network's biggest non-sports Thursday performance in nearly four years.

*consults lyrics to Do They Know It's Christmas*

Of the [as] original programs, I'm pretty sure Robot Chicken is the highest-rated.

"The show is airing on A&E, History, and Lifetime…"

Good point, it should have gone down something like this:

Jeopardy! thread for Thur., Dec. 5 - I hope most of you fans got to see the episode, which suffered a lot of preemptions due to coverage of Mandela. Champ Carlos continued on his impressive roll, he was in complete command the entire way and scored an easy runaway victory with a $25,200 score as the players faced this…

No, I wish I did.

Some of the pilots NBC bought in the past couple of years:

There are a couple of Fleming Jeopardy! episodes on YouTube.

Meantime, the real tragedy is that hardly any of the game shows from the 1960s still exist.

If TCO can maintain ratings in the low-to-mid 2s through the spring, I think CBS will leave it there. If it starts to falter, I could see it being shipped to Monday night next year as an 8:30 show, with The Millers taking over the Thursday at 9 slot.

I guess if you don't listen too closely, "My Favorite Things" sounds kinda like someone rattling off a Christmas gift wish list. And it talks about snowflakes and ribbons and sleigh bells.

Seems that over on TVBTN, most people think this is going to be huge, some predict as high as in the 3s. Maybe there's a lot of excitement about this among people who exist on a completely different planet than I do, we'll see.

I'd guess an average of 1.4 and 5 million total viewers for the night at best. If it does a 1.7 they'll be ecstatic.

I say when TV comes back from the holiday break that A.V. Club drops coverage of Michael J. Fox and picks up The Crazy Ones.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I would never watch this, but I somehow like that they're giving it a try. A whole night devoted to a live musical feels like something NBC might have done decades ago, when they had their finger firmly on the pulse of middlebrow American taste.

That's why the Monday night loss was so crushing for the Saints, since they would lose the tiebreaker to Seattle. Now they're essentially three games behind the Seahawks with four games to play, which will be nearly impossible to overcome.

I think every team is guaranteed one nationally televised game, which is how the Jaguars end up on Thursday Night Football, the lowest-profile live NFL coverage.