the 3rd episode for LOTS was UP!!! Good news:

Legend of the Seeker fans, the show’s third episode of season two didn’t make the top 25 below but it had an average audience of 2.504 million. That’s up from the 2.24 million for the second episode but still off a bit from the season two premiere which averaged 2.58 million viewers).

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/12/03/syndicated-top-25-wheel-bests-mnf-legend-of-the-seeker/35209

sorry I meant $125k per episode (1/2 of CSI’s ad revenue).

The cost of the average TV show runs as high as $13m (ER) and low as $500k for a pilot. The average is $1.5m to $2m per episode for a TV series. My guess LOTS is upward to $2m, easily.

Here’s info on ad dollars:
In general, advertisers covet the 18-49 age demographic; older viewers are of almost no interest to most advertisers.[4] The number of viewers within the target demographic is more important to ad revenues than total viewers. According to Advertising Age, during the 2007-08 season, Grey’s Anatomy was able to charge $419,000 per commercial, compared to only $248,000 for a commercial during CSI, despite CSI having almost five million more viewers on average.[5] Due to its demo strength, Friends was able to charge almost three times for a commercial as Murder, She Wrote, even though the two series had similar total viewer numbers during the seasons they were on the air together.[4] Broadcast networks are concerned by the increasing use of DVRs by young viewers, resulting in aging of the live viewing audience and consequently, lower ad rates.[6] Also TV advertisers may also target certain audiences of the population such as certain races, income level, and gender.[4] In recent years, shows that tend to target young women tend to be more profitable for advertisments than shows targeted to younger men, this is due to the fact that younger men are watching TV less than their female counterparts.[7]

So if you assume LOTS at 2.5m viewers and $100k paid per commerical, 20 ads per episode, it is slighly profitable. Under 2m it gets worse.

Sorry I run a Hedge Fund so I always think numbers too much..

People get hooked onto a show and will watch rerun after rerun I guess. Why are the viewers 1/2 of last year? I think they had a few under a 1.1 rating last year (worse than this year). I do not know if the ratings dropped slowly thru the season last year, do you? I believe they did.

Maybe those that read the books were just plain turned off by the divergences in the TV show. Reading Hulu comments shows some really upset folks that had read the series.

The producers probably could have made a successful movie but I like the idea, like a good book, you want it to go on and on.

Needless to say, given the drop off last year and the slow fade this year I am not encouraged if they end with well under 2m viewers in the end…….but Network execs cut Family Guy a few times, shows their wisdom…Family Guy RERUNS are 8th…LOL

Just as Broken was a character study of Cara, Touched revealed important aspects of Kahlan. In Touched, Kahlan showed that she truly loved Richard by not loving him. Love must be freely given or it is meaningless. For instance, had a confessed Richard been told to marry Kahlan, the marriage would be void since there was no free consent by Richard.

Touched also had a very nice touch: Bridget Reagan singing an enchanting song to the Night Wisps. She can really sing.

Touched also showed Zedd learning to trust Cara a bit more, and it revealed that Kahlan trusts Cara. LotS continues to rock.