Welcome to the 2021-22 edition of The TV Ratings Guide’s game, Invest In 19 Shows! Here’s how it works:
Based on a show’s Live + Same Day performance in Adults 18-49 last season, I will set a price for every show on the fall schedule. For example, a show that averaged a 0.56 last year costs $56,000. New shows will receive the price of the median show on that network.
The catch is you only have $1,150,000. Spend your “money” wisely, because you can invest in 19 and only 19 shows. That comes out to an average of around $60,500 per show. Go ahead and spend $178,000 on The Masked Singer if you’d like, but keep in mind you’d need to invest in quite a few low-rated shows to balance it out.
At the end of the season, your final score will be the median A18-49 L+SD rating of the 19 shows you invested in. All shows will be counted with the same weight.
For a refresher, here are the fall schedules for every network:
ABC
Sunday: America’s Funniest Home Videos | Celebrity Wheel of Fortune | Supermarket Sweep | The Rookie
Monday: Dancing with the Stars | The Good Doctor
Tuesday: The Bachelorette | Queens
Wednesday: The Goldbergs | The Wonder Years | The Conners | Home Economics | A Million Little Things
Thursday: Station 19 | Grey’s Anatomy | Big Sky
Friday: Shark Tank | 20/20
CBS
Sunday: 60 Minutes | The Equalizer | NCIS: LA | SEAL Team (only for a few episodes, not an option below)
Monday: The Neighborhood | Bob Hearts Abishola | NCIS | NCIS: Hawai’i
Tuesday: FBI | FBI: International | FBI: Most Wanted
Wednesday: Survivor | Tough As Nails | CSI: Vegas
Thursday: Young Sheldon | United States of Al | Ghosts | B Positive | Bull
Friday: S.W.A.T. | Magnum P.I. | Blue Bloods
NBC
Sunday: Sunday Night Football (not an option)
Monday: The Voice | Ordinary Joe
Tuesday: The Voice | La Brea | New Amsterdam
Wednesday: Chicago Med | Chicago Fire | Chicago PD
Thursday: Law & Order: For the Defense | Law & Order: SVU | Law & Order: Organized Crime
Friday: The Blacklist | Dateline NBC
FOX
Sunday: The Simpsons | The Great North | Bob’s Burgers | Family Guy
Monday: 9-1-1 | The Big Leap
Tuesday: The Resident | Our Kind of People
Wednesday: The Masked Singer | Alter Ego
Thursday: Thursday Night Football (not an option)
Friday: WWE Friday Night SmackDown (not an option)
The CW
Sunday: Legends of the Hidden Temple | Killer Camp
Monday: All American | 4400
Tuesday: The Flash | Riverdale
Wednesday: Legends of Tomorrow | Batwoman
Thursday: Walker | Legacies
Friday: Pen & Teller: Full Us | Nancy Drew
Saturday: Whose Line Is It Anyway? | World’s Funniest Animals
Let’s get started now with the prices for every show!
ABC
The Bachelorette: $131,000
Grey’s Anatomy: $102,000
Dancing With The Stars: $95,000
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune: $91,000
Station 19: $83,000
Supermarket Sweep: $70,000
America’s Funniest Home Videos: $67,000
Shark Tank: $67,000
Queens: $65,500
The Wonder Years: $65,500
The Goldbergs: $64,000
The Conners: $62,000
The Good Doctor: $57,000
Big Sky: $54,000
20/20: $50,000
The Rookie: $49,000
Home Economics: $46,000
A Million Little Things: $42,000
CBS
60 Minutes: $110,000
FBI: $82,000
NCIS: $82,000
The Neighborhood: $76,000
Young Sheldon: $76,000
The Equalizer: $75,000
Bob Hearts Abishola: $62,000
NCIS: LA: $61,000
NCIS: Hawai’i: $59,500
FBI: International: $59,500
CSI: Vegas: $59,500
Ghosts: $59,500
FBI: Most Wanted: $58,000
B Positive: $56,000
Blue Bloods: $52,000
Magnum P.I.: $52,000
United States of Al: $50,000
Bull: $46,000
Tough As Nails: $46,000
S.W.A.T.: $42,000
NBC
The Voice (Tuesday): $98,000
The Voice (Monday): $97,000
Chicago Fire: $94,000
Chicago Med: $92,000
Chicago PD: $86,000
Ordinary Joe: $82,500
La Brea: $82,500
Law & Order: For The Defense: $82,500
Law & Order: Organized Crime: $79,000
Law & Order: SVU: $76,000
New Amsterdam: $46,000
Dateline: $41,000
The Blacklist: $35,000
FOX
The Masked Singer: $178,000
9-1-1: $105,000
The Simpsons: $70,000
Family Guy: $57,000
The Big Leap: $57,000
Our Kind of People: $57,000
Alter Ego: $57,000
The Resident: $55,000
The Great North: $55,000
Bob’s Burgers: $51,000
The CW
All American: $26,000
The Flash: $22,000
Walker: $21,000
Whose Line Is It Anyway?: $15,000
Riverdale: $14,000
Penn & Teller: Fool Us: $13,000
4400: $13,000
Legends of the Hidden Temple: $13,000
Killer Camp: $13,000
Batwoman: $12,000
Legacies: $12,000
World’s Funniest Animals: $10,000
Legends of Tomorrow: $9,000
Nancy Drew: $8,000
Once you’ve figured out your shows, fill out the form below. Good luck!