Thursday, August 4, 2011

I GUESS THIS MEANS THAT SHE'S GETTING MORE CAF-POW: Adam previously expressed his shock at Pauley Perette's high Q Score, but news that she's now the #1 Q Score among all TV personalities, with other NCIS cast members taking up 4 more slots in the Top 10, may be even more shocking. Perhaps even more surprising is Jim Parsons, who's at #3 despite playing a character who's not exactly "accessible." Gratifyingly, the highest ranked non-CBS personality? Nathan Fillion, who comes in at #6.
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20 comments:

  1. Jordan2:34 PM

    I've never had trouble suspending disbelief when shows throw crazy premises out there (plane crashed on a tropical island with mysterious inhabitants is now traveling in time? sure, why not?), but for some reason I have incredible trouble with a show with a premise like this.  If a Marine is murdered on US soil, it'll be all over CNN.  But in the world of NCIS, it happens every week, and that's just in the DC metro area, and no one really notices.

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  2. isaac_spaceman3:39 PM

    It's not surprising that the most recognizable (which is not the same thing as "popular," contrary to what EW says -- Q ratings gauge "audience awareness," which need not be positive) actors are the ones on the most popular shows, especially the most distinctive characters on the most popular shows.  If you asked a thousand people to name one character on Big Bang Theory, my guess is that 900+ people would name Sheldon, 75 would name "the guy that was the boyfriend of the girl on Roseanne," and the other 25 would split evenly between "the asshole Jewish stereotype" and "the girl in the sweatpants" with maybe a stray vote or two for "the foreign guy." Nathan Fillion surprises me, just because I didn't know anybody watched Castle.  Other than that, the only surprise for me is that Sheen and Cryer didn't make the list.  It's not like you're going to crack the top 10 if you're on FX or AMC or HBO or Showtime or the CW or, what's it called, the other one, NBC. 

    Also, I think they just tested actors, not "personalities" -- no Cowell, no Seacrest. 

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  3. sconstant3:48 PM

    (obligatory Castle love.)

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  4. D'Arcy3:55 PM

    What do you mean you didn't know anybody watched Castle? I'm your wife's other imaginary best friend (besides Tina Fey) and I watch Castle religiously! Don't you know me but at ALL?!?

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  5. Jenn.5:11 PM

    Castle-watcher, checking in.

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  6. Adam5:31 PM

    Q rating is familiarity *and* appeal.

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  7. Adam C.5:32 PM

    Same.  A pleasing Monday night diversion.  And hey, Stana Katic.

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  8. isaac_spaceman5:33 PM

    1.  Excuse me, my wife's other imaginary best friend is Lorelai Gilmore, so take it up with her. 

    2.  There probably are not many weaker predictors of a show's overall popularity than its popularity among readers of this blog. 

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  9. KarenNM5:35 PM

    Another Castle-watcher in the crowd.

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  10. CW5:37 PM

    Obligatory #RIPTerriers.

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  11. Anonymous6:51 PM

    call me shocked that such a list has a "representative sample of 1,800 children, teens, and adults"

    Only 1,800??! Seems awfully, awfully low considering how much press this gets.

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  12. Duvall7:12 PM

    I have a sneaky suspicion that the CBS viewing audience believes that the DC metro area really does have about a hundred murders a week.

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  13. D'Arcy9:09 PM

    1. Believe me, I will.

    2. Excellent point.

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  14. Jordan10:14 PM

    For what it's worth, my parents love the show.

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  15. Becca11:11 PM

    Wait, I watch NCIS AND Castle. And Vampire Diaries. And Good Wife. I like to think of this as "diverse viewing habits," but it's not, really.

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  16. Heather K12:20 AM

    also checking in as castle fan

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  17. KR12:33 AM

    my mother loves NCIS and Castle.  You've just hit her favorite shows....

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  18. heathalouise8:40 AM

    My biggest suspension of disbelief? That a button-down military operation like NCIS would allow Pauley Perrette's gothtastic character to work there. At least Criminal Minds gave their quirky tech lady a somewhat plausible backstory. (And did I just out myself as a watcher of Criminal Minds? Yes, yes I did.)

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  19. erin12:49 PM

    One more for Castle.

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  20. ExurbanMom9:54 AM

    If you want a statistically significant result, select a sample of about 1800 people, and select it truly randomly.  If you do that, your result should be highly statistically significant.  There's a reason that Nielsen ratings were based on a sample of about 2000 for a lot of years.  When the country got more diverse, they needed to add more people to the sample, and it's now a lot bitter.

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