Wipeout actually had three airings of its premiere. The one thing I find overnight ratings useful for is comparison-between shows, and especially week to week. That’s an insane amount of people-until you realize that Netflix counts anyone who watched for two minutes as a viewer, which makes that metric meaningless and ludicrous. Netflix, for example, just renewed Floor is Lava, saying that 37 million households watched in its first month of release.
Meanwhile, there is not independent, equivalent ratings data for streaming services, and their self-reported ratings are completely unreliable. That makes other ratings-like those who watch within seven days (L+7) or 30 days (L+30)-much more important. Overnight ratings only include people who watch that night (live or on DVR), and many people now watch on DVR. Ratings are essentially in free-fall for all of broadcast television, thanks in part to fragmentation (we all have a lot of choices) and to how we watch (on demand, streaming, and/or recordings on our DVRs). (Photo by TBS)Ī massive disclaimer is necessary here: I rarely report on overnight ratings any more for three primary reasons: John Cena and Nicole Byer hosting Wipeout, during the one part of the show where they actually seem to be reacting to what’s happening in front of them. 1 new unscripted offering on cable television, beating fellow freshman TBS series The Go Big Show, which opened to 302,000 viewers in the key demo,” The Wrap‘s Tony Maglio reported. That also means Wipeout easily beat the premiere of Top Chef Portland, which had a 0.24 rating and 829,000 viewers, although Bravo’s competition airs at 8 p.m. 
That tied it with the highest-rated show of the night, a basketball game (Nuggets versus Clippers). A total of 1.06 million people watched, according to Showbuzz Daily. While the April 1 premiere of Wipeout was a complete disaster creatively-incoherent editing, badly written jokes, hosts reading off a teleprompter-it had a 0.33 rating among people 18 to 49. Yet it has also succeeded compared to other cable reality shows, although it has been losing viewers since it premiered, perhaps because it’s terrible.
TBS’s reboot of Wipeout is both baffling and frustrating, a complete waste of a fun format and its otherwise talented hosts, Nicole Byer and John Cena.
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