FIRST on "The Fosters" - Monday Nights on FreeForm 8e/5p Starting Tonight!

[Pauline Tasci]

If you'd like to watch more about the details behind the filming of The Fosters here is the segment on FUN last night about the show including myself and Jacob Komar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPhQbow8-U0

Thanks!

[Siri]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I think you are all taking the potential influence of a TV show most people have never heard of way too seriously. To echo what Adam said, you are the vocal minority here.

Without wading into the broader discussion, I figured I'd look this up. The first run of this episode tied for third in its prime time slot among Neilsen's main demographic. It tied Family Guy and American Dad (8PM and 8:30 on TBS) at 0.4, though across all demographics The Fosters had 160,000 more viewers than Family Guy and 189,000 more than American Dad. It lost to "Love & Hip Hip" (VH1) and WWE in this timeslot.

Overall that night it ranked 35th on main demographic's Top 100 (which is all that's published). This comes out at 46th when ranked by total viewership. It is one of only two Freeform shows to make the list and is by far the highest, Big Screen Movie (5PM) ranking 99th and 71st respectively. This also means The Fosters was Freeform's highest-rated show of the day.

Couple of notes:

• Neilsen's chief demographic is actually 18-49yo, and I don't know how to find ratings for a more age-appropriate bracket. I don't know much about any of these shows, but I'd guess 18-year-old minimum is hurting The Fosters more than most mentioned.
• The Fosters, Family Guy, and American Dad only tie to the decimal reported (0.4). If they're in order, The Fosters is just below this showing of Family Guy but beats American Dad by 4 spots. (Both these shows have showings above and below The Fosters in other timeslots; expect a timeslot correlation though I haven't checked.)
• The Top 100 includes a total 9 shows in the 8PM hour with 7 at 8PM and 2 at 8:30. In demo rating order, they are (demo rating/total viewers):
  1. Love & Hip Hop (1.3/2.45M)
  2. WWE (1.0/2.88M)
  3. Family Guy (0.4/724K)
  4. The Fosters (0.4/884K)
  5. American Dad (0.4/655K @ 8:30)
  6. FX Movie (0.3/933K)
  7. Cleveland Show (0.3/763K @ 8:30)
  8. Cupcake Wars (0.3/789K)
  9. Misfit Garage (0.3/859K)

My takeaway is that if you remember classmates talking about Fox Family/ABC Family/Freeform shows when you were in high school, you'd probably have people talking about The Fosters now.

[bduddy]

I'm wondering how many people in this thread have watched any TV drama within the last few years. Or spent time talking to students from teams without significant resources. Neither number seems to be particularly high.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

I signed up for something a lot bigger than just a robotics program.

+1 - FIRST is about making the world better by inspiring the next generation of inventors and developers. FRC is a robotics program created to support that mission. While it is not exactly what he meant, and I will capitalize some letters he would not have, it is good here to quote one of my former commanding officers, who himself was quoting from military doctrine:

Mission FIRST. People Always.

Edit: and, as always, read the third sentence under this post.

[BotDesigner]

Originally Posted by bduddy

I'm wondering how many people in this thread have watched any TV drama within the last few years. Or spent time talking to students from teams without significant resources. Neither number seems to be particularly high.

+1

[JamalBendkowski]

Man this is sweet, tremendous coverage of FIRST.