Comments on: The Office Nielsen Ratings, Seasons 1-4

By: Dwigt

Dwigt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:45:29 +0000

I can’t tell from these numbers exactly how much more popular the show has gotten over the years. I’d like a line graph.

By: Pam Scherbatsky

Pam Scherbatsky — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:34:53 +0000

The Office is a bit underrated in the TV world. We need more viewers!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:58:11 +0000

So if I am reading this correctly, only 5.8 million people watched the office finale live? Yikes NBC

By: kate

kate — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:38:20 +0000

I love looking at the recording numbers and thinking mine was one of those DVRs! I would die without my DVR…

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:20:58 +0000

Yay! Most-viewed finale! (right?)

By: Pam Scherbatsky

Pam Scherbatsky — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:49:52 +0000

More viewers! Probably because of last week’s absurd Grey’s Anatomy. But we deserve it.

By: _bales

_bales — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:13:30 +0000

Like LovesItalianFood, I’m loving each second of the post-strike episodes too! (Awww…only two more weeks till the end of the season? Too soon!) Anyway, I think “The Office” is doing great, creatively and ratings-wise. Berman keeps listing it under “Winners”, and for good reason: it’s practically an island of high-demo performance for NBC on a tough night, in a brutal timeslot, and with practically no support or help from a lead-in (or lead-out) at all (no offense to “Scrubs” or “30 Rock”).

By: LL

LL — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:49:40 +0000

My guess is that viewership ratings are down overall since the strike, and that the ratings for The Office were artificially inflated for the first couple of weeks because it was the *only* thing on (whereas, usually, it is not).

Here’s hoping the ratings go back up, though!

By: g friedrichs

g friedrichs — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:55:04 +0000

I’m of a different opinion – I don’t think the shows have been as crisp or as well written since the writer’s strike. Michael seems to be searching for his theme and the attempt at interspersed seriousness
(Stanley stutter) undercuts the wackiness of the premise and the characters. Maybe THAT’s why viewership is off.

By: LovesItalianFood

LovesItalianFood — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:41:26 +0000

I cannot say this enough….

The post-strike episodes are AWESOME!!!!!

Tips cap to the Office writing staff.

By: TobyFan

TobyFan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:51:55 +0000

MediaWeek has an interesting bit on the ratings – comparing year over year, The Office still beat 30 Rock’s performance in the 9:00 time slot even against the new episodes of Grey’s and CSI. So even with the full point drop for The Office week over week, it’s still doing well for NBC, and especially with younger viewers.

Link

By: the zoppity

the zoppity — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:42:05 +0000

I love ‘the office’ (my favorite show ever).. However, I was watching the NBA play-offs. Most of the people that I know were doing the same thing. Pretty simple explanation. Grey’s blows.

By: Pam Scherbatsky

Pam Scherbatsky — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:13:44 +0000

Wow, that’s strange. Viewers drop. It was a strange episode, though.

By: wesley ward

wesley ward — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:23:32 +0000

I still will never understand why they put The Office up against Grey’s. If it was up against something else it would probably win in it’s time slot.

By: JJ

JJ — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:52:32 +0000

I bet the DVR viewer rating will be a big boost to the ratings. I wasn’t home last night to watch it, but many people who watched Grey’s were. We’ll all be watching it on the DVR.

By: dustin

dustin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:14:47 +0000

In addition to NBA there was also NHL playoffs. It’s funny someone mentioned it being a holiday yesterday. My mail came 3 hours later than it normally would have and my brother came in and said “Is today a holiday or something?” 3 Day weekend!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:55:53 +0000

Would the NBA Playoffs have anything to do with the drop in viewers?

By: Matt#2

Matt#2 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:26:45 +0000

The low numbers weren’t all because of CSI and Greys. In fact, both CSI and Greys had 4 million viewers less than the usually get. The Office couldn’t have lost too many viewers to these shows.

All across the night, numbers were down. Was there some holiday I missed?

Maybe Nielsen forgot to count a region or something…

By: Sol

Sol — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:21:58 +0000

I actually love grey’s anatomy..but i made the obvious choice in watching the office rather than grey’s…grey’s can wait =) haha

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:19:35 +0000

Don’t people know, you’re supposed to watch The Office first, then watch Grey’s Anatomy so you can fast forward through the majority of commercials in the first half hour, then rewatch The Office.