The pilot episode of "Low Winter Sun" was shot in Detroit last fall.
The producers of AMC's new Detroit cop show "Low Winter Sun" may have reason to be a little nervous.
So far, the ratings for the show that airs at 10 p.m. on Sunday haven't been great. And it's not for lack of positioning.
The show comes on right after the highly acclaimed "Breaking Bad," which is in its final season. AMC hoped Low Winter Sun would get the spillover from fans looking for a new show to glom on to when "Breaking Bad" is gone.
Adam Kepler of the New York Times reports that the first episode on Aug. 11 got decent ratings with 2.5 million total viewers. The second one got 1.5 million and the third, on Aug. 25, got 1.2 million, according to Nielsen ratings. The ratings for the second and third episodes aren't very good.
Keper wrote:
The show also finished outside that night’s Top 100 cable programs in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic and has now fallen below AMC’s other low-rated dramas. But the numbers for that channel’s other Sunday drama, “Low Winter Sun,” have been a disappointment so far, and the show is looking like a missed opportunity to take advantage of the surge in viewership for “Breaking Bad.”
Actors involved in the show have said that the series really intensifies and goes into full throttle by the sixth episode. The question of course is: Will viewers hang in there?
Reviews from viewers have been mixed here in Detroit. Some people really like the show. Others find it too dark, or too slow. Some cops didn't like the idea that the show centers around two homicide cops killing a fellow cop.
Not every show starts out with great viewership or top-shelf ratings.
The website WikiSein wrote this about the Seinfeld show:
The show premiered as The Seinfeld Chronicles on Thursday, May 31, 1990 on NBC. Seinfeld was not an immediate success. After the pilot was shown, on July 5, 1989, a pickup by NBC did not seem likely and the show was actually offered to Fox, which declined to pick up the show. It was only thanks to Rick Ludwin, head of late night and special events for NBC, for diverting money from his budget, that the next four episodes were filmed.
