A LIVE season opener for DT? Wasn't expecting to hear that! It has to be more interesting than all of the GH ones (albeit for the 08 one, I love watching a fraud collapse). Where it is in Ireland I bet the GHI team will be involved or if nothing else Barry will be.

Beautiful place, I would love to take a vacation there!

Oubliette said:

I'll be honest, after reading somewhere that DT's ratings were so low that SyFy didn't even post them, I was just wondering if they would be coming back.  A live show is a great concept and is sure to get people watching.  They're also fun as, like we've seen with GH, there is only so much control people have over what is happening.  There is no "second take", so there's always the possibility that the audience will get to see something that isn't intended to be seen, or that is just plain funny, or both.  This should be good!

The legend of the Banshee is certainly quite interesting.  All in all, a good way to kick off the series.  Any word on who is in the cast?

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Oubliette, your post made me curious.  I searched for their ratings, and at least last season's premiere set a record for he show?

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.c…..ever/45443

I saw other articles that claimed Season 3 ratings had some of the highest ever.  If indeed the ratings plummeted over the season, I wonder if all the GH crossovers were to blame.  But I cannot find any evidence that ratings were down, all I saw were stories of increased ratings.  Just FYI.

Nosfer said:

All you have to do is look at the actual ratings and trend them:

(in millions of viewers)  Note, dipping under a million viewers is not considered a good thing in the ratings game!

 

17-Mar-10	2.200	(Season Premier)
10-Sep-10	1.232	(Half Season Premier)
17-Sep-10	1.142
24-Sep-10	0.896
1-Oct-10	0.936
11-Oct-10	0.894
22-Oct-10	0.995
29-Oct-10	1.185	(Season Finale)

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Ouch.  That's why I didn't find any articles about late season ratings.  Now, back to my question.  What effect, if any, did all the GH crossovers/ghost hunts have?  I quit watching DT this year simply because I was sick of ghosts and because their "evidence" review became more shoddy.   

What we do know is this, March 17 was one of their highest rated shows ever.  And that followed a season where the GH crossovers started, including such eps as the Haunted Forest in Romania, the Island of the Dolls, the Ghosts of Chernobyl and the GHI crowwover in Peru (I looked back through the episode guide and was surprised at how far back these GH ghost hunts go).  Those eps go back into the glory days of ratings for DT.  So I guess the crossovers aren't the problem.  Perhaps DT is just the hardest hit by the overall decline in ratings for these shows (well, I guess MonsterQuest was the hardest hit, it was cancelled).