Picking up from where I left off in my previous entry on the Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics have been an outstanding success in terms of viewership. According to the NY Times, Nielsen ratings reports that as of Tuesday, an average of 30.4 million people have been tuning into NBC on primetime to get their Olympic fix. On top of that, over 40 million people stayed glued to the TV over the weekend to watch Michael Phelps win his 7th and 8th Olympic gold medals. According to reports, that was the highest ratings NBC has received on a Saturday night since 1990!Guess that means no one was at the movies - "unfortunately," Tropic Blunder opened this weekend with very weak numbers. Some say that it will fare better next weekend due to the end of the swimming events, but I doubt the few thousand people who saw it are going to help spread positive word of mouth. Poor Ben Stiller. Who would've thought that the Olympics would've stolen your thunder? I'm sure no one saw it coming.
It's really all thanks to Michael Phelps. Now that he is propelled to celebrity status, how soon do you think they're going to pry into his private life?
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