"Skinwalker Ranch" Ratings Fall in First Outing Without "Oak Island" Lead-In

5/8/2020

Due to the lack of new material to write about this week, I don’t have much to share today. I should talk about former Sen. Harry Reid claiming to now believe aliens exist, but, really, who is surprised by that? He was impressed by the commonplace “mysteries” of Skinwalker Ranch. Instead, I wanted to briefly take note of the ratings for this week’s History Channel pseudohistory shows. Now that Curse of Oak Island has gone back down into whatever muddy hole it crawled out of, Lost Gold of World War II and Secret of Skinwalker Ranch have to stand on their own. As almost anyone could predict, without Oak Island’s 3.6 million weekly viewers to bolster it, Skinwalker fell back down to Earth, attracting 1.6 million live plus same day viewers, the same as Lost Gold. Previously, when airing after Oak Island, Skinwalker had more than 2 million viewers. This week’s numbers are closer in line to the historic average for pseudohistory and paranormal programming airing on the network’s weekday primetime schedule, and about even with ten-year average for Ancient Aliens. When you take the anomaly of Oak Island out of the equation, the ceiling for these kinds of shows remains stubbornly around 1.5 million viewers no matter the specific subject matter, the day of the week, or the stars of the show.

9 Comments

Jim

5/8/2020 02:08:12 pm

They should change the name to:

The Secret of Hypochondria Ranch

And get this guy on their show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IPPn9t6dyE

Not Kent

5/9/2020 05:11:56 am

Hypochondria Ranch?! 😅😅👍

I think its "Hypochondriacal", though.

Either way😅😅😅

Check this out:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdw1KSkO1tI

Jr. Time Lord

5/8/2020 10:30:18 pm

"...the ceiling for these kinds of shows remains stubbornly around 1.5 million viewers no matter the specific subject matter, the day of the week, or the stars of the show."

Perhaps they should hire the host of "Firing Line". I'm pretty sure she could sell lawn mowers in the desert. "Skinwalker Ranch" sounds like a place where harvested foreskins are turned into women shoes.

Doc Rock

5/9/2020 11:07:33 am

1.5 million equates roughly to the ten percent of the ten percent.

Kurt Stallings

5/9/2020 12:40:10 pm

Jason --

Just cross-referenced you on this nice little look at The History Channel, which I think you'd find sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc3vt1Gqrn4

Dr. Whodat

5/12/2020 12:09:09 am

I'm not trying to be offensive. Senator Reid is LDS. People living on other planets is a core principle of his religion. Why should it surprise anyone that he reveals his faith in public?

Jim

5/13/2020 12:57:53 pm

For anyone who enjoys self flagellation, dropping heavy objects on their feet and other such things, our buddy Scott Wolter has another interview on the net.

https://www.facebook.com/unknownphilosophers/videos/263793428006467/

He says the Cremona documents describe the Templars finding a chamber under Jerusalem that had four ossuaries covered in lambskin which contained:
John the Baptist
A wack of gold bars
A bunch of sealed scrolls
Some construction and navigation instruments

One of the instruments leads him to espouse on what else but Venus, which he recently saw and noted Venus was "Tips Up":

"what a lot of people don't realize is Venus is a crescent whose tips are up, unlike the moon whose tips are sideways."

Bwahahaha jeez thats only about 10 minutes in, I'm giggling so much I gotta quit watching for a while.
Lol, Wolter has his telescope out looking for Venus's tips !

T’mara

5/15/2020 03:10:07 pm

The episode with the ufo was a tough one. They saw a Large tethered balloon. And because it was tethered, (the show the week before featured similar balloons) it seemed to stay in the same place in the sky, as they noted, and ‘disappear’ or as i like to say, was obscured by dust or haze in the atmosphere.( Seemingly, it was still there when they stopped watching it. ) A jet zooms by at a MUCH higher altitude, and the crew shouts that the UFO is interfering with the jet. Later, when someone is experiencing faintness, it is described as an after effect of the UFO. That was a lot for one episode. There are other reasons it’s unwatchable...a staged for tv control room, a weird security chief who keeps wingeing on about no digging and how he loves everyone, a completely unbelievable billionaire owner, animals used as bait and left defenseless against coyotes etc so they can get footage of a real animal mutilation, and a scientist who keeps yelling “weird.” Of them all, victimizing the alpaca was the worst. The Humane Society regulates use of animals in tv and movies doesnt it?

Tony D

5/20/2020 08:41:15 pm

Super irresponsible of everyone involved with this show to let that alpaca get attacked by a coyote.

They don’t even suggest it could have been a coyote.

Awful show all around.

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