DWTS Season 10, Week 5 – The Ratings Race Continues
…with Dancing with the Stars in the lead once again. 🙂 From the Washington Post:
Once again, ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” has pasodobled past Fox’s “American Idol” in the ratings.
Monday’s 90-minute “Dancing” episode, featuring America’s Most Put Upon Mother Kate Gosselin performing her final walk — this time an alleged foxtrot, to “The Breakfast Club” tune “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” while dressed as Princess Aurora from “Sleeping Beauty” — averaged 21.1 million viewers.
Meanwhile, Tuesday’s one-hour performance episode of “Idol,” in which show host Ryan Seacrest’s ego took the night off, freeing up more time for the Idolettes to take turns singing inspirational songs, attracted 19.7 million people to their screens, according to Nielsen.
This week marks the third time in five weeks the performance night of “Dancing” has attracted a larger crowd than the performance night on “Idol.”
It may also be the last because, sadly, “Dancing” ratings magnet Gosselin was finally felled this week by the professional judges’ low, low scores for her performances (“Dancing” eliminates a celebrity per week based on a combination of the judges’ scores and viewer voting).
I guess that remains to be seen. I don’t think it was Kate drawing viewers, so much as Idol really sucks this season. Seriously.
Idol really does suck this season – I still hadn’t watched last week’s Elvis themed episode as of Tuesday, so I tried to force myself to do it and ended up watching 1 or 2 performances and then erasing it. Seriously, aside from Crystal & sometimes Michael, the rest of the contestants this season are a big snoozefest.
DWTS, on the other hand…it keeps me on my toes 😉