Friday (9/28/18) Primetime Ratings

[Proxio]

Linsey Godfrey (ICE Starlets), Who Wanted Nichole Dead? (Paramount Television) (ICE-TV) (Channel 7)

These are the primetime ratings for the 24th night of the 2018-19 NITRO Television regular season on Friday September 28, 2018.

Network Rankings

[Proxio]

Kay Shields (ICE Starlets), Molly in South Philly (ICE-TV) (Channel 7)

Network Season Rankings

1. ICE - 14 wins (69 points)

2. ROD - 5 wins (42 points)

3. NBC - 5 wins (33 points)

A WILD HISTORIC FRIDAY NIGHT LEADS NITRO PAST 200 MILLION VIEWERS

Remember at one point when getting 100 million viewers was the high mark? Hell remember when getting to 150 million viewers was the high mark?

Well now the new high mark is now set to be 300 million viewers as we've just eclipsed 200 million viewers thanks to a wild Friday night in NITRO that was historical on so many levels.

The last two big historical days in NITRO happened last season back on Tuesday November 12th, 2013 when the start of a new NITRO War started then the following Friday on Friday November 22nd, 2013 when NITRO would shutdown go on hiatus for a full 5 years.

Well remember the day Friday September 28th, 2018 because this day will stitched in stone as probably the biggest day in NITRO history to-date as so many things started today that may NITRO in the near future and the over the course of the next few years.

Now you guys might also be asking why all of this shit happened yesterday?

Well guess what type of day November 12th was 5 years ago?

You guessed it was a KELLY GREEN TUESDAY last season and tonight was a KELLY GREEN FRIDAY!

That was the 2nd ever Kelly Green Tuesday btw that day and a lot of the reason why that day went the way it did was because people paid attention to how the first ever Kelly Green Tuesday went the week before and how huge it was for ICE with the media coverage in Detroit on November 5th, 2013. Now the NGIT Pageant was in Detroit last night and there was an opportunity to make a name for yourself last night on the big day.

No matter what studio you're in at NITRO this is always the biggest day of the week because this is where all of the media come together to cover stories for NITRO and there's no better time to do that than on a day where the media is there to report to the world what the hell you're doing.

That's why Friday was chosen as the day that Sarah Jessica Parker decided to launch the rebirth Jordache Jeans to help celebrate its 40th anniversary as a designer jeans company and why Jethro decided to finally reveal Austin Mahone as Mister X on a huge platform on I Love Lucy Hale's sketch comedy variety show where his ex-boyfriend Shane Tovar was exposing everything that he knew about his studio NBC to the rest of the world and why right after he got jumped live on television and later in the night Jethro would announce a direct competitor to Jordache Jeans called Gucci Jeans as Jethro has bought the Gucci fashion brand.

The night itself just had a lot of huge things happening the Shields sisters made fun of their sister overseas Terri Shields who made her debut on Rachel the night before which at that time had a record 152.5 million viewers for NBC. They were on Molly in South Philly and the last first round draft pick to make her NITRO debut in Michi Kat Grimes revealed that she had been out of jail for the last 60 hours and finally made her unofficial NITRO debut by announcing that she was going to introduce Mister X and later in the night she would reveal that Gabrielle Shields was also out of the jail at the same time she got out and that they were both hiding the last couple of days at the Shields penthouse residence in downtown Toronto to setup for their huge returns on Friday night. Gabby revealed her return after her family sibling Emily Shields also known as Blueberry audition for the NGIT Pageant this season after her auntie Brooke Shields introduced her to the Detroit crowd. Gabby's return was a shocker because she wasn't supposed to be out of prison for another whole month but got out early on a special release.

So many other things happened backstage including Jethro's daughter Lisa Grantham who just got through completing another successful episode of Young Girls and was frustrated by her father's return to NITRO and to life period as there was no word the last five years if he was alive or not so she ended up fighting Michi Kat Grimes for bringing him back. Lisa's boss Paige Van Buren would later tell her to go home and cool off.

It set the tone for a wild night backstage as Romeo Miller one of the bigger male names in NITRO got many of the young baby ICE Starlets attention backstage and was even aggressively attacked softly by Tammy Oldehoff. This whole story coming off the heels of it being revealed that his friend Tyson Carter had been in a violent breakup situation with ICE rookie Lindsey Visser a couple of weeks before and the two had not communicated with each other ever since and her sister Lesly had her big audition for the pageant that night. Lindsey was one of the girls who was aggressively seeking attention from Romeo and we now know why as she is no longer tied to Tyson as his girlfriend.

All of this drama going on right now was crazy and there were a few other things that happened but we're going to move onto the ratings. You can read all of these stories in this thread here: shermerramemorial.proboards.com/thread/480/wild-friday-night-nitro-september

Jessica Clements leaves Paramount Hall after hosting Tahj & Arielle AM going straight to Detroit, Michigan for the NGIT Pageant on Friday September 28, 2018.

Highest Rated Programs of All-Time through 9/28/18

1. New Girls in Town Pageant Friday (ICE) - 217.0 million viewers (Friday 9/28/18)

2. WFL Monday Night Football (ICE) - 181.0 million viewers (Monday 9/10/18)

3. New Girls in Town Pageant Friday (ICE) - 175.1 million viewers (Friday 9/7/18)

The New Girls in Town Pageant auditions traveled to Detroit on Friday night as we mentioned before and viewers knew this would be a huge night for auditions as Detroit is notoriously known for bringing the industry some of the best homegrown talent names and this year was no different as this was another talented class of contestants for this year's pageant competition and next summer's draft.

Over 200 million viewers would tune in on Friday as some of this might've been aided by what happened earlier in the night on Molly in South Philly and I Love Lucy Hale with the surprise guests and how Michi Kat Grimes teased her huge reveal which would be the return of Gabrielle Shields from prison.

That segment alone reached 243 million viewers from 12:45am-1:00am in the last half-hour of the quarter ratings measuring segment as that was obviously the most viewed moment in NITRO history.

That huge segment helped Who Wanted Nichole Dead? surpass Rachel as NITRO's most watched scripted program with an impressive 158.73 million viewers behind the pageant giving the retention rate of 73% behind The NGIT Pageant and this would mark the third time the new scripted record would be set in one week as ROD's Dallas Cowgirls Undercover got over 140 million viewers on Monday and Rachel as we mentioned did it last night with over 150 million viewers for NBC so every network set the ratings mark. It should be interested to see if that mark is set again next week.

ICE's late night soap hit Who Wanted Nichole Dead? has been gaining steam in popularity thanks to its lead-in all month as the storylines on the show are heating up with ROD favorite Nadia Bjorlin on the show and Linsey Godfrey's character Sarah Horton involved in a kidnapping storyline. Nichole would probably be red hot even without the pageant's help.

Earlier in the night the Kelly Green Fridays teen comedy block continues to be on fire competing against NBC's comedy blocks for that top comedy block of the week. Jaime for the first time in its run reached over 100 million viewers as it's done a great job leading off for this block all month long. Molly in South Philly was red hot winning the 8:30pm sketch comedy battle against I Love Lucy and The YouTube Life on the competing networks. The Shields sisters did enough to get the ratings up past Shane Tovar on I Love Lucy Hale getting 135 million viewers for a new series-high that would help Young Girls and Youth of Life behind it also receive series-highs.

The Shields sisters resurgence this season has been a real help to the networks they're on as Nikki Shields who is a co-star on I Love Lucy Hale has really helped that show out as well. The ICE Shields sisters will need to put their muscle to the test on Wednesday night as DJ Becky makes its huge debut.

Scott Clifton (NBC Universal), Liam Spencer (NBC-TV) (Channel 4)

NIGHTTIME SOAPS HAVE REAL BATTLE

ROD averaged almost 100 million viewers on Friday as they had a huge night thanks to I Love Lucy Hale as we mentioned before getting 122.43 million viewers which was a series-high beating The YouTube's new series-high of 95.02 million viewers and that was hugely successful considering there was no special guest for The YouTube Life but it looks like in this slot a real war is shaping out between these three diss shows. The Stella Sisters got a pretty good lift before that against Jaime getting 88 million viewers and Diff'rent Strokes reached a series-high 70 million viewers for NBC.

Later in the night we had a nighttime soap battle between Steffy Forrester, Quinn Fuller, and the huge premiere of NBC's Liam Spencer.

With the swollen ratings we were able to see some more series-highs as Steffy Forrester reached 105 million viewers and Quinn grew to almost 110 million viewers. We know Jacqueline MacInnes Wood and Scott Clifton constantly get into on social media bragging against each other about their shows but Steffy will have the chance to brag this time as Liam Spencer got 81.31 million viewers for his premiere in a tough slot against record setting pageant edition for ICE. That was really impressive Liam Spencer to get that big of a turnout considering the lead-in was under 60 million viewers so it grew an impressive 25 million viewers at 12am. If Liam Spencer was in a less competitive timeslot 90-100 million would've been possible.

NBC isn't looking for none of that as long as it beats ROD's Australian Nights they're just cool with that for Liam. We'll see if Liam can hold up next week as the pageant should be down next week as this will not be a live edition for the NGIT Pageant next Friday since they're down in Sydney, Australia. We'll see if the ratings are this high for everything as well.

Very huge night all-around for all three networks as we expect things to really cool off on Saturday but it should be great to see how the young stars shape the coming month.


Tomorrow night we'll have the fourth week of the Xtina Grimmie Hour and Vegas Showgirls auditions on NBC and ICE respectively. Bridget Satterlee returns to action in the second game of her WFL career and the first road game of her career as she travels to Denver for the Colorado Boulders home opener on ROD's Saturday Night Football so ROD has Bridget Satterlee in primetime tomorrow night. Deborah Jo Wood's variety show airs in late night for ICE and earlier in the night the world broadcast premiere of the 2014 comedy box office hit The Irish Punk premieres on NITRO Television at 8pm for ICE as well. NBC will have a special primetime edition of War Update airing to update of us all of the latest news coming out from tonight and Saturday's actions.

We expect things to be extra quiet in NITRO on Saturday since most of the girls involved in the drama on Friday night will all be with their WFL teams getting ready for Sunday's games and away from their NITRO studios.

[Proxio]

Arielle Kebbel co-host of the NGIT Pageant Auditions live on ICE-TV (Channel 7) on NITRO Television.

[The following is the complete opening intro to Friday's NGIT Pageant Auditions from Detroit as seen live on ICE-TV @ 10:10pm]

"NEW HOPE IS IN THE AIR" narrated by Arielle Kebbel and written by Sadie Robertson

DETROIT, MI - "IN THE BEGINNING THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE!

IT THRIVES IN EVERY NITRO STUDIO AND WFL STADIUM ON OPENING DAY EVERY SEPTEMBER!

FOR EVERY NITRO STUDIO AND WFL TEAM LAST YEAR IS FORGOTTEN!

NOW THERE ARE NEW CHALLENGES TO BE MET AND VICTORIES TO BE WON!

NEW FACES AND NEW NAMES APPEAR IN EACH NITRO STUDIO AND WFL TEAM!

THEY REPRESENT THE HOPE THAT THINGS MIGHT FINALLY TURN IN OUR FAVOR!

IN EVERY NITRO STUDIO AND WFL STADIUM THE WINDS WHISPER IN HIGH HOPES THAT WE MIGHT FINALLY TURN IT AROUND BECAUSE.....

WE'VE GOT OUR NEW ROOKIE WHO WILL CHANGE OUR FORTUNES FINALLY!!!

TONIGHT WE RETURN TO THE BIRTHPLACE OF NITRO HERE IN THE CITY OF DETROIT.

A PLACE WHERE GIRLS LIKE ALLISON SHIELDS, TRACY KIMMELL, JANET MOORE, AND SO MANY OTHERS GREW INTO THE NITRO SUPERSTARS THEY ARE TODAY.

WE GET A CHANCE RIGHT HERE TO SEE WHICH GIRLS THAT TAKE THE STAGE TONIGHT WILL BECOME OUR NEXT NITRO SUPERSTARS.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGINS!"

[New Girls in Town NITRO Beauty Pageant Theme Song Lyrics sung by Deborah Jo Wood]

"SHE USED TO BE SAD, SHE USED TO BE SHY

FUNNIEST THING, THE SADDEST PART IS SHE NEVER KNEW WHY...

KICKIN' HERSELF FOR NOTHIN' WAS HER FAVORITE SPORT.

SHE HATES TO TAKE OFF BUT SHE GOT TO START ENJOYIN' 'CAUSE LIFE'S TOO SHORT.

THERE'S A NEW GIRL IN TOWN AND SHE'S LOOKING GOOD

THERE'S A FRESH FRECKLED FACE, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

THERE'S A NEW GIRL IN TOWN, WITH A BRAND STYLE

SHE WAS JUST PASSING THROUGH,

BUT IF THINGS WORK OUT SHE'S GONNA STAAAAY AWHILE....

AND FIGHT FOR THE CROWN....BA BA BUM BUMMMM!!!!"

- INTRODUCING THE PROSPECTS -

Blueberry Shields backstage at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan on Friday September 28, 2018.

Emily "Blueberry" Shields

Age: 14

Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian, Italian

Hometown: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Current Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Family Relations: The Shields Family

Draft Group: Problem Child

Player Type: Defense

Athlete Comparison: Bridget Satterlee

Best Sport: Football

Entertainer Type: Theater

Best NITRO Comparison: Strawberry Shields

Genre Specialty: Drama

Background Information: Emily "Blueberry" Shields comes onto the scene as the 10th Shields family member to enter NITRO and the first one to enter a NITRO draft competition so it's going to be very interesting to watch her all season long try to fight for her spot in the chase for the crown on Sunday July 7th, 2019. Blueberry is the sister of Strawberry and Kay Shields on their father's side but Blueberry herself is apart of her own family with an older brother who will audition for The Carpenters Hour in Chicago on Monday and a few younger siblings who will all be coming into NITRO soon. Blueberry has been very much compared to Strawberry and even looks like her as she has a theater background like Strawberry and Barbara so expect her to probably start out her career in the daytime soap scene like Strawberry is doing right now on the brand new ICE daytime hit Staying Alive. Athletically Blueberry is a defensive player which is a change up from the rest of her family who mainly play on the offensive side of the football except for Gabrielle Shields who is a defensive type of player so Blueberry will be playing defense in the WFL. Blueberry is a very funny person so she can lead a comedy series if need be and musically she can sing and play a few instruments so she's going to be very valuable in the upcoming NITRO Music Competition league. She compares to Bridget Satterlee which is a great nod if she indeed gets her shot to start on the defense. Blueberry is a very promising prospect as she is a franchise type player and can easily challenge last year's top 3 contestants Kaia Gerber, Thylane Blondeau, and Maia Cotton from the Junior Beauty Pageant for the crown. She is a problem child so behavior issues like other sisters will be something to monitor as she is very much in the Lizzies gang scene. Blueberry will be super interesting all year long to see how she fights with the rest of the contestants to get that crown.

Cindy Sofer backstage at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan on Friday September 28, 2018.

Cindy Sofer

Age: 16

Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian, Irish

Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Current Location: Los Angeles, California, United States

Family Relations: Rena Sofer

Draft Group: Problem Child

Player Type: Defense

Athlete Comparison: Kya Summers

Best Sport: Swimming

Entertainer Type: Theater

Best NITRO Comparison: Rena Sofer

Genre Specialty: Soap Opera

Background Information: If you were thinking of Quinn Fuller then you're correct this is her little relative Cindy Sofer. Rena's young equal will arrive in NITRO next season and I know since we all watch The Bold and the Beautiful that you guys are ready to draft her right now and she will be worth it as she's a young version of Rena. We never got the young version of Rena in NITRO so this is our chance to get the younger version of her right here. Cindy is from the Pittsburgh area like Rena but based out of Detroit right now and she is more like Rena's alter ego Quinn Fuller than Rena herself is not a mean crazy person like Cindy. Cindy is like a young version of Quinn has she's done some time behind bars already for trying to kill a kid when she was 11-years old so you're going to have yourself a real headcase on your hands if you draft her. She is trying to change though as Rena spent a lot of time with Cindy the last two years having her come out to LA for the summertime after she got out of jail in 2017 to visit and learn the business with her. Cindy is Pittsburgh tough and she is a hard worker so she will be a profession and work hard at her craft. It's best to have her be in the soaps when she first gets to NITRO because her specialty is drama and she's a theater actor like Strawberry so she can act, dance, and sing. In athletics she is a defensive player and her mean streak on the football field will be impacted right away in the WFL. Cindy Sofer comes into this competition as a complete wild card as she will either compete for Miss Michigan or Miss Pennsylvania but either way we think she will be around in this competition for a while as fans can't wait to see Quinn Fuller Junior next season.

[dstiles]

Everybody had a great night it was a really great night for NITRO as far as attention goes as there was a lot of people watching TV last night.

Friday is turning into the best and most competitive night of the week. Although ICE is far and away the top network on Friday Nights the individual timeslot battles are very interesting.

We got some good shit right now going on as I love the two comedy battles in the 8pm hour between Jaime, Diff'rent Strokes, and The Stella Sisters that's a nice battle. Then the other one with the diss shows I Love Lucy Hale, Molly in South Philly, and The YouTube Life that's a really hot battle I think dictated by the guest stars but since Lucy and YouTube Life are newer so they're still trying to get established.

Liam Spencer did really well for NBC but I want to see his show in a better slot battling that last hour of the pageant is difficult that's why I think ROD left Australian Nights there because they know they can't compete in that slot. I would love to see Liam move up earlier in the night to 9pm or 10pm. Liam against Steffy at 10pm would be juicy as hell. NBC should get rid of Team NBC since there's no BOTNS type competitions going on during the WFL season.

Who Wanted Nichole Dead is a beast that's turning into a big-time show right there.

I got a lot to talk about with the pageant later especially with the Detroit prospects. I'll wait until Proxio releases all of the draft profiles first.

[angrygrandpaforever]

Scott Clifton: Steffy Get Ready to freaking lose because My Show WILL be airing against Yours Next Week...
Annika Noelle: Yeah Steffy Bitch Get Ready to Lose...

[beermoney]

omg! ICE's numbers were woah! the whole lineup was over 100 million viewers

the nighttime soaps Liam Spencer, Steffy Forrester, Quinn Fuller, and Who Wanted Nicole Dead all did very well as the difference right now could be ROD's lead-in for Steffy with Miss ROD could be the difference there

nice suggestion dstiles as i did see that NBC is moving Liam Spencer against Steffy Forrester that's gonna be a wicked battle man Friday overall is the funnest night of the week so many good intense battles and a lot of storylines come out of this night

definitely looking forward to next Friday

[beermoney]

also in the poll that's a hard question to be honest i think Lesly Visser might be one of the best prospects in this draft and her sister is already doing very well at ICE to start the new season and that wasn't expected to happen just yet

[dstiles]

I see NBC took my advice on moving Liam Spencer up to the 10pm hour to go against Steffy Forrester and avoid that last hour of the New Girls in Town Pageant. I am excited to see how these two rate against each other next week.

There's going to be a ton of girls like Lesly Visser in this draft that studios will make a tough decision on passing or not but I'll tell you this after seeing the way Lindsey Visser surged out of nowhere I'd be very careful on passing her up.

[ice]

Molly in South Philly is definitely shaping my teen comedy lineup as the other three comedies are feeding off of it so I made the right decision throwing these three in there. Once my rookies get more established they'll be able to keep these numbers but I think they'll be down last week.

Molly in South Philly doesn't have any special guests planned just yet as we're going to see what I Love Lucy Hale does first. It might be a special guest again but we'll see as Carmela Russo makes her debut on there next week.

I am making an audible as DJ Becky will crowd up that at 10p timeslot as a special second episode of DJ Becky will air there next Friday. Since the NGIT Pageant is taped next week I can shorten it to start at 10:30p instead next week. Big Prox can air the first 30 minutes on TV-44 instead.

Who Wanted Nichole Dead? is doing way better than I expected behind the NGIT Pageant keeping almost 3/4 of that audience.

We will never shy from taking problem children but Lesly Visser is different but very good as well.

[ice]

Molly Ephraim (President): Hey Kaitlyn BITCH! You lost again and nobody cares about Sterling Knight anymore your special guest is going to be bomb.

Alexandra Krosney: Tonya Krosney that damn Tough Chick is going to bomb so hard.

Carmela Russo: I'm ready to do work on Molly in South Philly next week gonna stick it to my old boss that little midget Lucy Hale.

Vanessa Moe: We ready for you Carmela good luck next week honey!

Carmela Russo: Thanks Vanessa I am ready!

Lindsey Visser: ICE you better not draft my sister! I FUCKING MEAN IT!

Matthew Atkinson: I'm gonna get my popcorn ready to watch my sister Steffy go against Liam.

[dstiles]

I've to the conclusion that Molly in South Philly's cast is so strong and the show is so established that Molly doesn't even need a huge guest every week as I think Carmela Russo's debut on the show this coming Friday will be enough. I Love Lucy Hale will need another big guest not sure if she will be able to find anybody like Shane Tovar on short notice but The YouTube Life hung in there really well this week getting a series high in the ratings with no big guest and they will have Sterling Knight on there this week. I'd be interested to see how everything shapes out.

DJ Becky airing at 10pm against Liam Spencer and Steffy Forrester will be very interesting as Friday just has the best battles.

I think the most interesting pick going into next year and there's going to be a ton of them but whoever takes Lesly Visser will be a very interesting situation especially if it's not ICE.

[dabrotherbloodboxing]

I'm very interested to see how the ratings calm down to next week as the ratings were unusually extremely high for almost everything last night.

[rodshooter]

OH SHIT! I LOVE LUCY HALE 122 MILLION!!!!

Steffy Forrester beat Liam Spencer!

Holy fuck ICE got 217 million from the Pageant!

[rodshooter]

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (Daytime President): Oh shit Liam your show lost to mines already and you're going to get creamed going against my show 1-on-1.