Oh ouch, this one’s gotta hurt, and not sure if the hurt is lessened by having another fellow fallen comrade. The ratings are out for this Wednesday’s prime time dramas and all eyes are on newcomer Goodbye Mr. Black with Moon Chae Won and Lee Jin Wook to see if it can make a dent in runaway rating’s leader Descendants of the Sun. In the last three weeks, same day premiered Please Come Back Ahjusshi has seen its single digit premiere ratings continue to drop while DotS made leaps and bounds upward from its mid teens rating premiere to close to breaking 30% now.
The results are out and it doesn’t look pretty – Goodbye Mr. Black’s first episode got 3.9% AGB ratings nationwide and Please Come Back Ahjusshi continued to drop 1.4% to 4% AGB nationwide for today’s episode 7. Perhaps the only sliver of consolation is that DotS didn’t break 30% ratings and set a record, it recorded only 28.3% AGB nationwide ratings for episode 7, a slight decrease of 0.2%. The domestic viewers have spoken and there is no increased pie size yielding more viewers returning to television to spread the wealth, or rather the DotS effect is solely limited to that drama only and I don’t see Mr. Black or Ahjusshi making any significant headway during the remainder of the DotS run.
I’ve gotten used to Please Come Back Ahjusshi’s low ratings but to drop even further from last week is shocking, and even more shocking is Mr. Black’s super duper low premiere ratings in the 3% range. Really?!?! Bummer for the other two casts and production, I enjoy Ahjusshi for Oh Yeon Seo and the interesting concept story line and still plan to watch Mr. Black, but the two big name casts getting such low ratings is still hard to wrap my mind.
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Although I don't follow any of these shows...Salute to DotS.
I wanted them to do very well, even for the mere reason of pre-production.
It'll be a good sign and will benefit the actors, writers, directors, producers and hopefully it sends a good message to the TV networks.
I don't agreed with this article. Even DOTS is so good and have a very high rating, the main fact that's why GoodBye Mr Black and Please Come back mister have low rating is especially because they are not good. Don't forget that DOTS get 28% of rating so there is yet a probability to keep the remain 72%. But NO, these 2 dramas are so bad that they just got 3% and 4% . Have you reall Watch the drama with Rain ? it's a joke for all Drama addicts. 2 ghosts in love aghhhhhhhh . And for GoodBye Mr Black, it's too low as start , a bit annoying
Can you take idiocy somewhere else??
"so there is yet a probability to keep the remain 72%" lol i laugh so hard at this XD
please look up more about korean TV rating mechanism before reply things
idiot! have you already watched please come back mister?
Ty for the update. I was wondering what the ratings were for this week.
Expected numbers. I see GMB getting to 2nd place but DOTs doesn't seem like it will slow down at all. Episode 7 was very good and Episode 8's preview looks even better.
DOTs is unbeatable at this point. It hit 30.1% in Seoul and the tNMS ratings went up.
The GMB 1st episode was a bit off for me....KWK is acing it but can't say the same for LJW and MCW for that matter. Let us see!
Probably they should do rerun on a different time slot. I know that's gonna happen for GMB since the pervious drama (OMHE) didn't have a good rating either. I felt so sorry for PCBA since they have these famous actors in it, and not to mention I heard it's pretty good too!
I actually like PCBA, because it is not boring to watch..
Poor Mr. Black. It had so much trouble getting on air too. Kim Kang-woo was the only good thing about it so far, and he can't win against the power of KES and SongSong. One a drama reaches these types of ratings it's the drama everyone watches.
DOTS is everywhere at this point.....topping music charts foreign countries ratings etc.
Today's episode was A+++++ though. Low on romance high on emotions
Today's DOTS episode was really quite nice <3 SHK owned the episode today 100%. Tomorrow's episode looks more Romantic than today's but today's was necessary to show the darkness of the world it takes place in
I guess Ahjussi will fall again. I wont be shocked if it even fall to 2% of ratings. I like and enjoy this drama, but my instinct say that SK people wont give chance this kind of drama. DotS is too good anyway. I haven't watch Mr. Black yet. I'm waiting VIU to release it.
You mean fall to 1 % ??? Hahahaha this drama Please Come Back Mister is so bad , bad bad bad
Im so happy for DOTS and i agree that today is not much on romance department but it has a deeper sense and meaning... The romance is still there on the smile, the lingering looks, the unsaid words.... You can still feel it! The emotions are high and i bet today's episode will leave an epic cliff hanger to sort of keep us on our toes waiting for the next week! Fighting dots!!!