I won't be watching it (at least broadcast - I'll probably check it out on line) as long as it is up against NCIS. I would forego NCIS LA to watch if it is good, but not NCIS.

Since I heard that they are showing only 4 episodes until next year; I am saving them up on Tivo until all 4 episodes air.

Ya I don't know why they have to put new shows up against most competitive night. They always seem to do this with Sci fi shows.

I hate to admit it, but I forgot "V" was on for the second week in a row. So late in the premier season, I'm already watching the shows I love. Of course, I've been watching NCIS for 6 seasons, so that takes precedence!

There are too many (understatement) commercials!! I already have guilt for missing NCIS but to be sitting watching commercials instead of the program is ridiculous. I'm sure the viewers of the original V (like myself) watched last week to see if the new series rang true - it was no stunner like I thought it would be. Too bad.

Here's one potential major contributor: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 came out yesterday.

I liked the first episode of V, but was just too busy playing to stop and watch tv. I'll catch up on Hulu this weekend.

My wife and I canceled our cable and we watch everything online on Hulu.com or on Netflix. I wonder how many people watch shows in this manner which is negatively impacting viewer ratings. it seems like a lot of great shows are being cancelled lately.

I saw eps 1 and 2. Frankly, ep2 didn't excite me that much and I can see this show getting canned pretty fast... it's just not that good. Two eps in and I was already getting the impression the writers don't really know where they're going with any of this...i'll watch all of the four eps and judge from that whether or not i want to rejoin seeing the show in the spring.

The reasons the ratings slipped is because it wasn't nearly as good as people had hoped for it to be. I fail to see why a TV network can't just do a straight forward SciFi show anymore. They do a political commentary/drama and give it a scifi element. But they can't do a straight scifi with a lot of action and such. I found it boring. Just one more cookie cutter TV series with no future. At least the original V was definitely scifi. Not a cop drama where the bad guys arent from Earth. Oh and they need to decide a scale for the mothership shots. In some scenes they look about 3 miles long, but in others they look about the size of an ocean liner.

NCIS?/ Why all of those shows are un original trash!!
I'd rather watch paint dry!!
V isnt terrific but better than most crap on right now!!

My wife and I bailed on the original before six episodes had elapsed. This time we bailed after watching the first in its entirety. None of the characters were particularly interesting; and there was nothing to compel either of us to ask, "What happens next?" Just what did the producers think they were doing? Did they know what they wanted to do?

I saw this coming the moment last week's ratings came back overwhelmingly positive. My very first thought was "next week's will drop like a stone and the internet will pounce on it like a wounded animal in the wild". What was a success one week is a failure the next. We live in a world that just doesn't accept a happy medium.

I can't really blame the 29% who jumped ship on V though. The pilot felt as though it rushed through alot of important details, never truly letting anything settle in or conveyed just what an impact it was supposed to have. Plus, none of the characters exactly grabbed me on first impression. Bacarrin was doing her best autism impression (despite the fact all the other Visitors have no problem blending in and acting Human), Mitchell was the cliche obsessive FBI agent/overprotective parent (basically every character on FlashForward), Gretsch was a priest (quite possibly the dullest profession in all fiction) and Tudyk barely got one scene where he was eating a sandwich before his big reveal, making it insanely difficult to care (hell, being an evil alien was an improvement).

Right now they're doing nothing but hitting the same usual kneejerk alien invasion beats. Push past that, show us something new and they might have a series worth watching.

the show outright stinks. I watched the first two episodes with the hope it woul dimprove. I'll probably hold on for one more show. Also the head alien is hot. But the plot is so contrived and ridicules.
By the way, if scifi is going to report everything wrong with a scifi series (this is the 3rd negative article on V) will the site be as honest with their own shows: the crappy movies, ghost hunters, scare tactics ECw Wrestling, etc.) the show will die sits own quite death with out you trashing the competion.

Ok, I understand how, statistically, this was very bad. I mean, it lost more then one fourth of its audience. However #1, the original audience was pretty huge. #2 10 million ain't bad, especially for a broadcast network Scifi show, which are not always known for their success. #3, its up against NCIS, which, I think, is the #1 drama this year (if not #1, then pretty close anyways). SO, I think, taking those 3 things into account, this isnt so bad. Yes, it can get worse in the weeks to come, but this news isn't as bad as it seems.

I for one liked it. It got my interest and I want to find out what exactly those Visitors are up to!

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V was sh*t that why people didn'tt bother watching it after the shambles that was the first episode.

I'm surprised the ratings only dropped 29%. I'm not going to watch a science fiction show if it's outright bad, no matter how many likable actors are in it. I deliberately didn't turn on the television last night, and you know what? Didn't miss a thing.

THR reports it is doing just fine and came in number 2 last night
if it holds where it was last night it will be a hit

A few articles back, they posted "4 Reasons Why V's Mothership Don't Make Sense" shooting holes through V's mothership technology. Perhaps this is why the ratings have dropped??

I jest, of course, but you have to wonder about the purpose of articles like that.

I think V suffers from the problem that there are already two other science fiction programs just on its own network that deal with conspiracies. Further, while the exact nature of the conspiracies on FlashForward and Lost are unknowns, on V, even if you aren't familiar with the original miniseries'/series, the new series blows its wad in the first hour by revealing the reptilian nature of the visitors. Once you do that, you know they're up to no good whatever their ultimate goals are. This worked great for the original, which wasn't about the consipiracy so much as the fight against an alien takeover. The new V, however, seems to want to take the Lost approach and make the consipiracy integral to the plot. Frankly, it isn't going to work. That's not to say I don't like the new V, I do. I just hope that the firing of Scott Peters is indicative that the entire plot at this point is fatally flawed.

That last line should read, "I just hope the firing of Scott Peters is indicative that the network realizes that the entire plot at this point is fatally flawed.

THR actually is stating V's ratings drop is the highest from a scripted premiere that has been seen so far this season

yeah, sounds just fine to me!

I honestly didn't watch it because nothing about it grabbed me. It wasn't very original. Didn't seem to have any characters that really made me go "Oooh, I want to see how that turns out". Quit rehashing older stories and expecting to get a "Battlestar Galactica". There are PLENTY of stories that haven't been done.

I will only watch it on my DVR from now on. It seemed like we were getting assaulted by commercials every 7 minutes. That drove me nuts!

What's going on here guys? The comments on this site this time last week were raving over V - couldn't get enough of it, greatest thing since sliced bread. I was afraid to weigh in and say it was complete rubbish out of fear for my own wellbeing, the comments were so outlandishly favorable.

Which begs the question - if someone back tracked the IP addresses from last weeks comments, would they point to a little back office over at ABC?

Episode 2 was worse than the pilot imo, i found the pilot fairly good, i will probably still watch the next 2 episodes tho, it COULD possibly get a tad better

The show has me guessing--who's a visitor and who isn't? It is interesting enough to keep me watching. I wasn't aware that they were only going to air four episodes and then take a break. Not sure my interest will keep up after such a break.

SHOCKED THEY DIDNT LOSE MORE!

It's to be expected. I liked this episode better than the first. I thought it was better paced, just needed more action. Unfortunately Sci-Fi doesn't seem to do well on those channels so I don't hold any expectations that it will last long.

Could it possibly be because veiwers are catching on to the fact that almost everything is a revamp,reimagineerd copy of something that wasn't all that good origionally?Maybe some origional thinking like we saw from farscape,firefly ,fringe,diefying gravity,(wiat ..oh ya sci fi cancelled the first two because of normal ratings flucuations.)etc is needed.How about end ing those made for syffy monster of the week movies that all look like they were churned out in mass by the same special effects shops.No more "we taste like chicken "week" movie marathons please.Try somehting new .Damn even an old lost in space or even some of those great old scifi movies from the late 50's and early 60"s would be better than "gargoyls and nazi crap'Or ogers in pennsylvaina crap played recently.Just something new!

Where'd they go? Simple. They saw the pilot.

I watched the pilot this weekend. I thought it was okay. I only watch TV online anymore, and they don't put up the new episode until Saturday. I will watch it then. With the advent of DVRs and on-demand/online tv, they really need to come up with a better ratings system. The future of TV isn't broadcast television, it's on-demand via the internet.

None of you really expected a science fiction show to consistently pull in 14 million viewers a week with a 5.0 in the demo, did you? This was bound to happen.

Fact is, 10+ million viewers and a 3.9 demo is very good for ABC and it will be good enough for #3 show of the week (demo) behind Grey's Anatomy and NCIS.

I don't have cable. I watch it on megavideo. I can't watch streaming shows from syfy.com as it is not available in my region. I am sure a lot of viewers watch it from streaming services that doesn't show up on the ratings.

I'll keep watching, but only because there isn't anything better on at that time. I'm pretty underwelmed by the show, and my expectations were never that high to begin with. My observations/complaints: 1) I REALLY want emo-boy to get eaten by a lizard very soon (and not in the good way, if you know what I mean); 2) The reporter is just a self-interested sleaze-bag; nothing interesting there; 3) For as many times as they hammered us with the "trust no one" message, I never actually FELT any of the paranoia they were obviously trying to invoke; 4) Nothing in the first two episodes has made me care who might be a visitor, or what their evil plan is; and 5) There isn't anywhere for the relationship between Erica and Jack to go, because he's a PRIEST! If they just wanted a priest character to go through a whole crisis of faith thing, why did they bother to hire an actor as hot as Joel Gretsch? What a waste!

SCI FI KISS OF DEATH: Being on a network like ABC instead of Fox or the Sci Fi Channel. So, think it'll make at least 6 episodes before they "ax" it?

If V gets canceled like Defying Gravity did than that will be the end of me watching ANYTHING on ABC! If you cannot commit to at least showing the complete 1st season of a show then DONT SHOW IT AT ALL!

just goes to show that the idiot that wrote that article claiming what a hit V would turn out to be has been proven wrong. It doesnt matter if the show is "quality" or not, if you cannot maintain the numbers what the hell is the point?

This new "V" doesn't have the same . . attention-grabbing mojo (for lack of a better description) as the original miniseries. They MIGHT have done better if they would have made a miniseries to introduce the "reimagined" V rather than just starting it as a series. The actors/actresses in the new show were fine, but the writing just stinks (sorry, but it's true when you compare it to the original that had you guessing what they were up to until the guinea pig feeding scene). They gave up the whole story in the first episode! Weak! Do the writers really believe viewers are so stupid they need everything spelled out like that in the first episode? It's like watching the pilot for Caprica . . . once you see that you know why the cylons have religion and don't need to watch the series.

Love to see Morena Baccarin in a sci fi series again, but I'm saddened to see her on such a weakly written one.

I believe when they added HULU and DVR viewership to the first episode, it was 18 million, which is 4 million more than the broacast airing. I would assume it's not actually 10 million for the second episode, but closer to the original 4 million people claimed was the original audience (before the online stuff was factored in).

That being said--I really, really like this show and I have come to the the conclusion that the most vocal sci-fi "fans" on message boards actually just HATE acknowledging that something may be good.

I've seen some shows that are excellent, and I've seen some shows that suck. V is not one of the shows that suck, and I have a hard time accepting the opinion of anyone who can't find at least one nice thing to say about a show.

There was a big hype build-up for V. The sci-fi fans on here love to burst bubbles like that, and love to bite the hands the feed them. Ridiculous over-generalizations like the ones being expressed here are the reason that networks are hesitant to air sci-fi programming: damned if they do, damned if they don't.

v is amazing. you guys are dumb. soo happy to get to see morenna flex her acting muscles.

i think the first ep should had been 90 minutes though to slow it down a little.

P.S. i just want to say to the web developers that the box that displays the letters you have to enter to make a post SUX!!!!! My posts fail 90% !! of the time and i swear i enter the right letters.

That 39% was killed by the Vs.

The problem with this version of "V" is that everything happens too fast and we are supposed to just accept that the V's have integrated into society. The original V took its time telling a story and that added to the creep factor. This one feels rushed and I am invested in none of the characters.

I have to agree with what a number of people here have stated:

Pilot was too fast paced for a 60 minute show. It should have been a 2 hour mini-series to start it off.

The episode is really only 40 minutes with all the commercials. Geez... and then you wonder why people turn to the viable alternative of watching on the internet free of commercial or one commercial that is 30 seconds or less?

Second episode was just all exponential story to try to give depth to the characters.

V week 2 drops 29% -- where'd all the viewers go? When you gotta go to the restroom you gotta go.

I like the show. Too many commercials. The pace is ok so far. I agree that the pilot should have been 90 min or 2 hours. Like the charactors but the son is going to be the usual annoying teenager that they like to throw into all of these shows. That will suck.

Only 2 more episodes before the break...too bad.

Glad it's not as slow as Defying Gravity was.

I think the show is good. It is probably the best new Sci Fi show this year. I think Sci Fi fans should help it last so they might make more / better Sci Fi shows next year.

I consider it so far like the first Xmen movie. It's a decent start but still can improve. It definitely isn't boring. It has interesting characters and good actors. It has eye candy. It honors the original. I has a lot of potential to be really good.

I would like to see more Tech on the show. Too many shows and movies right now remove the too much of the Sci Fi / fantasy elements.

All the suspense and plot points were front-loaded in the pilot episode, and too damned many commercials. I once taped a soap opera---after zipping through the commercials it was only 38 minutes long. Yes, I still have a VCR.

Make the captcha wiggly letters and drop the grey background. And make damned sure your computers know what the fucking captcha IS!!!!!

I like V. I don't get what others problems are with it?

For all the sci fi nuts who say it could be a better sci fi show...*HOW* would you do it?

It's about alien invasion in a sinister undercover way. I think it's done quite well in invoking the paranoia, you're getting a sense your own government has already been taken in and you're the last two ( or few that you know of) that knows...

I'm not sure how it will differ from the original but this is all updated it will be interesting finding out. It seems even the rebel aliens don't know what their own kind will do to the humans e.g. "What ever they plan for the humans" obviously they are not going in guns blazing and are really worried about making a good impression, so probably they want to take over and manage the human race long term - for their own needs.

WE ARE OF PEACE. ALWAYS

V

I'm a devote fan of NCIS and NCIS LA, but being as I can catch those anytime on--ON DEMAND-- then I don't need to worry about missing them. V's a--CANT MISS--program.

The original story was a parallel between the Nazis and the Visitors. And of course, the Concentration Camp survivors KNEW of the parallels and tried to warn the general population. Here we have what? Vaguely "Hope and Change" (both undefined of course)... yet people far all over themselves to join in... But since most people don't see that parallel (and I doubt that Hollywood writers would either) and don't see a Nazi parallel, then the series seems fairly aimless.
Yes, Anna is super cute (and creepy when you know she's a lizard). Yes, the newsman is getting uneasy about their demands, but like most good newsmen today, he goes along with the "hope and change" program without really asking the tough questions.
Even controlling the news is right out of today's headlines, but most don't get it.
I do agree with the above comments that an entirely new show would be better... but mostly I just wish SCI fiction was a bit more SCIENCE and far less FICTION. Someone asked for most giant spiders of the 1950s sort of shows. Can't happen: Strength is the cross sectional area squared, weight is the cross sectional area cubed...
Oh yeah, few readers understand math or science! All products of our wonderful school systems!

And why do the sign ins fail 90% of the time? I suspect it's a time out issue!

You can watch NCIS in the summer reruns, or on syndication. There isn't all that much arc anyway at the moment.

Had high hopes for V. So far it's so-so. Still better than NCIS-LA. But the original NCIS is so much better.

I'll continue DVR'ing V at least until the first 4 eps are done. Then we'll see if I go back when it returns.

I was a die hard fan of the original. I was both terrified and mesmerized by the Visitors watching them on TV when it first came out as a kid. No, they will not top the original, but give the show a chance. Isn't anyone interested in finding out what their real plans are???

Really?

I found the paranoia to be very real. The elderly priest keeps speaking about how good this is. Is he a V?

The FBI agent on the Visitor Task force... Was she a V? (Most likely as she was one of the final 5).

They are taking a different take the original with its fascist parallels. That was still a fear in the 80's. Now we worry about terrorists who maybe plotting the next 911. They are re-imaging it with that in mind.

I think they are doing a fine job. I will admit they may have rushed the episodes and introduced that they are lizards a a bit quick, but in the original it was a surprise that they were lizards. We already know that so they wanted to get that out in the open and not have to worry about the big reveal.

I think the "Science" is a bit more than the original. Taking over the 911 dispatch. The floating surveillance balls that explode... Well you would think they have higher Def camera's, but OK..

Heck, the small interaction with Lisa an Tyler. With her being upset he resorted to Violence. Of him getting banned. It's getting him in a very real way to believe they really are of peace.

Overall I think it is a good series. Honestly there is nothing else on Tuesday nights anyway. Really.. NCIS.. How many of those shows are there? NCIS is just like CSI.. Those are just like law and order... All boring as heck..

Atleast V is something different than what is on TV now. those NCIS-CSI shows are using the same formula over and over and over again.

The thing I am disappointed about with this new V is they unveiled way too quickly that the aliens are evil to the humans. I mean we (the viewers) all know it, but it would have been so much better to see even the cautious characters beginning to fall for the propaganda would have been better. It reminds me of Earth Final Conflict. You never really figured out if the aliens were good, bad, or just had their own agenda...and different aliens had different views along those lines.

I forgot it was on. I was playing Modern Warfare 2.

Why is this really news?

It's common knowledge that rating drop after heavily promoted pilots air.

This really shouldn't have come as a surprise to Mr. Lee.

They went to watch better television. That's where they went.

I forgot V was even on this week and now, two days after the fact, I'm in no big hurry to even see the second episode.

I watch Sons Of Anarchy. That is a REAL tv show. Exposed to its sublime execution in all respects, V becomes utterly forgettable.

If V wants to be remembered and if it wants a loyal audience, it needs to have better overall execution. It's soft serve television, period.

And every incarnation of NCIS is better than V. That's right. I said it.

And I am a genre fan so don't blame me for hating on sci-fi because I like GOOD sci fi. V is only AVERAGE sci fi, so it deserves to fail. The bar is just too high for shows like V to be as lackluster as they are.

The pilot was horrible! Even Star Tr..Gate Voy...Universe are good in comparison.
I have no hurry to watch the 2nd episode.

Sons of Anarchy sux. That is a real show? More crime dramas anyone??? How about some more hospital dramas or reality TV? How about NOT. I rather watch youtube videos.

The producers gave everything away in the pilot. Why come back?

It's on ABC so it will most likely be canceled. Why should I invest my time in a new program that is doomed for cancelation???

The 29% are still waiting for it to show up online.

That's because the first episode sucked! They through together 3 episodes into 1, and it was noticeable...

The first episode was horrible and i forced myself to watch it. Morena baccarin is the only thing carrying this show but her come hither smile can only accomplish so much. Morena please grow your hair back..oh and yeah jump back on Serenity :). Hey leave me to my dreams...

I kinda saw it coming, but 29% ???
Why are so many people watching these crappy cop shows with monster-of -the-week-episode : NCIS, CSI etc. I´ll never get that...

Personally I looved the second episode!!!

ABC deserves the low ratings for creating 'copycat' series and initially trying NOT to credit the original creator Kenneth Johnson.

My husband and I are faithful viewer's of NCIS have been for years. But for the first "V" we DVR'd NCIS- let's say from then on we DVR'd "V"; we will watch all episodes of "V" of course. It's not the greatest. I'm such a fan of all of the leads of Firefly/Serenity - I will make an effort to watch anything they're in. One thing in "V" - they seem to be moving so quickly, we're not sure why. Hope the episodes get better.

It's not surprising to see that kind of loss in the second week, especially in a scifi show. Traditionally viewership declines the most for the second episode. In scifi, this is because non-scifi viewers who tuned into the first week to see what it was about will not tune in a second time. 10.6 million viewers is still well above average for a science fiction series. However, like Flashforward, we will have to wait and see what ratings will be seen for the third outing, and so on. The second weeks ratings still tell us nothing about how far down the ratings will go. If the show retains the current 10 million viewers, it will remain a hit. If they continually lose viewers, ala Flashforward, the show will likely be cancelled. Really, its all just a waiting game.

Its better than anything Syfy's made since BSG.