Rudy strutted, the ratings sucked, Ken Jeon walked off stage. Sometimes lightning rods just get you blown up.
by the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection on the US Capitol for perpetuating bogus claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
As the show aired Wednesday night, Twitter lit up with commentary—much of it negative—about Giuliani’s appearance. But all that chatter, typically gold for a TV show trying to pull in viewers, didn’t translate to huge ratings. The show brought in only 3.6 million viewers, theso far. Those who did tune in, it seems, did so only to verify that the dystopian moment they’d read about really happened—and that Jeong walked off, which he did, proclaiming “I’m done.
Perhaps so are viewers. As much as they love to watch train wrecks play out on their TV screens, the failure of Giuliani’s appearance onto snatch ratings demonstrates that stunt casting of this sort has limits. Having former White House press secretary Sean Spicer ontiptoed up to the line; Giuliani appears to have crossed it. Sometimes lightning rods just get you blown up.’s ratings dip comes at a precarious time for network television.
So, what’s a television network to do? It’s hard to keep up when hitmakers like Shonda Rhimes leave networks for streamers like Netflix, but even Netflix has had awhen it comes to keeping people tuned in. And really, it’s the keeping people around that seems to be the problem. For years streaming services like Netflix attracted new users by offering flashy shows that they rarely kept around for longer than a few seasons.
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