Yeah, only two eps got over 5 million in season 7 but this season hasn't topped that rating yet.
Other things you haven't taken into consideration were day changes and time changes. Smallville began on Tuesday at 9/8 central time and kept that day/time through second season, but moved to Wednesday an hour earlier, 8/7, beginning Season 3 and stayed there through season 4. Season 5 it moved to Thursday and was still on the WB. The following year it became the CW, the poorest, least watched network on Earth and that has been its fate ever since. If you're trying to find shipper light at the end of this tunnel, it's simply not there.
You made my point. Fifth Grader is much more of a ratings competition against SV than "Hole in the WAll" or Kitchen Nightmare, yet Season 7's ratings still out performed Season 8's.
Yeah, Power had repeats against it but it was also competing against American Idol which had 24.26 million viewers. You can't discount American Idol as a competition for SV. That's one of the reasons why Infamous was pushed back 2 weeks because CW didn't want it going up against AI which aired on 8:00 pm Thursdays two weeks prior to Infamous airing.
As far as Requiem it also went up against Bones new and not just Big Bang Theory repeat
So what? With 4.8 million viewers it still did 90% better than any ep from this season.
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