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Old 02-08-2022, 06:24 AM   #3360
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Originally Posted by xrodmuc316 View Post
Can you imagine if there was a brand new sitcom with an ensemble cast like Friends in 2022 that came out and got 500,000 viewers?

Now can you imagine the actors on the show CONSTANTLY talking about how great their ratings are and getting into Twitter fights with random people calling them cunts/twats/small white dick energy ect.?

Something tells me that wouldn't fly.
I was actually trying to think of a good analogy but wrestling is so unique it’s really difficult.

Your analogy to Friends isn’t quite 1:1 as Friends isn’t still running new programming. Comparisons to movies don’t quite work either. Or to shows like Game of Thrones.

The best I came up with was long running soap operas as they run for years with multiple new episodes a week and no break. In the UK there are 2 huge long-running soap operas on opposing channels; BBC1 has Eastenders which has run since 1985, and ITV has Coronation Street which has run since 1960. They have both pulled huge ratings in the past; 5/10 of the most watched shows (non-sports, non-news) of all time in the UK are episodes of the 2 shows (4 Eastenders, 1 Coronation Street) with an episode of Eastenders the most watched show of all time with 30 million aggregate viewers (only 2m viewers less than the 1966 World Cup final - that’s the one hosted and won by England, and the coverage of Princess Diana’s funeral).

These shows were ratings juggernauts, but have seen significant declines over the years. Eastenders average rating in 1987 was over 21m, in 2020 it was around 5.5m and last year it registered its lowest ever overnight rating. Struggling to find year-by-year average ratings for Coronation Street but their highest rated episode of the year has steadily declined from a high of 27m in 1989 to 7.1m in 2021.

Over the years other soap operas have been launched, most notably, Brookside (Channel 4, 1982-2003) which regularly drew an audience of 8m+, Emmerdale (ITV, 1989-present) with it’s highest ever rating of 12.5m, and Hollyoaks (Channel 4, 1998-present), viewing figures harder to come by but current figures have them at around 500,000 viewers per episode. These “upstart” soaps have struggled to “muscle in” on the kind of viewing figures achieved by Eastenders and Coronation Street.

So I guess, Coronation Street is WWE, Eastenders is WCW, Brookside is ECW, Emmerdale is AEW, and Hollyoaks is Impact.

If you think the wrestling twittersphere is polarised, you should see it when the UK soap fans get heated.
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