Watching KVille

So if you haven’t checked out MetaCritic.com, you may want to from time to time. Not so much for any real insight into television, film or music, but rather into how so many people can have such different opinions about something. It’s kind of like Rotten Tomatoes, but less cheeky. MetaCritic compiles all the critical reviews for something, and gives it an average score.

So what does K-Ville get?

That score is out of a possible 100. The highest score being 80 from the venerable Wall Street Journal, and the lowest score coming from the lowest-common-denominator USA Today. Here’s the real issue, however; the “number” attached to a review comes from Metacritic, so someone else is then judging what number to attach to a good or bad review. So now, you see that Metacritic is not exactly a scientifically-derived uber-score, but as I mentioned before, it is rather fun to see how many divergent views exist on one thing. And Metacritic is a decent portal to accessing reviews from most major outlets in one place.

So, the “critics” have flunked K-Ville, but the reader reviews give it a 6.5 out of 10. That is almost passing, right?

It probably doesn’t matter at this point anyway. But some good news. I checked out the Neilsen Ratings for this last week, the December 10th episode, and though K-Ville did not pull in huge ratings (3.5 percent of households in America watched, with 1.5 percent of all adults 18-39 - the most lucrative eyes in terms of advertising), the good news is that of that 1.5 percent of 18-39 year-old viewers, none of them shut it off until the end of the episode. That has to show something, right? No, I know, I am grasping at straws perhaps. But, hey K-Ville, there is no shame in losing to Deal or No Deal. And Howie is so smug about it, isn’t he?

But at least you beat Girlfriends.

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