And they were right, they had to change his character a lot, by season 2 he was a whole different guy both in appearance and personality.
edit: The show wasn't successful for the first season.
In fact even at its prime it wasn't as popular as other shows on the channels.
"The program averaged 5.4 million viewers, ranking it #102 for the 2004–05 U.S. television season" from Wikepedia That increased with the poularity of 40 year old virgin but still nothing amazing." It averaged 8 million viewers with a 4.0/10 rating/share among viewers ages 18–49 "
To put these numbers in perspective Big Bang Theory which is imo an inferior show had at its height an average of 19.96 millions per episode.
In time online streaming (Netflix mainly) gave it a second breath and made into the cult classic we now know.
Didn't The Office survive the first season because of Steve Carell's star power and the retooling of Michael Scott to be more sympathetic instead of, as this blurb puts it, "gratingly unlikable loser?" I seem to remember hearing that retooling Michael Scott was part of why they got a second season to begin with. Which would make this review more prophetic than not; most people don't watch for season one Michael Scott but rather for season 2 and beyond Michael Scott.
EchoIon on March 29th, 2020 at 11:40 UTC »
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DomSubThreesome on March 29th, 2020 at 12:23 UTC »
And they were right, they had to change his character a lot, by season 2 he was a whole different guy both in appearance and personality.
edit: The show wasn't successful for the first season.
In fact even at its prime it wasn't as popular as other shows on the channels.
"The program averaged 5.4 million viewers, ranking it #102 for the 2004–05 U.S. television season" from Wikepedia That increased with the poularity of 40 year old virgin but still nothing amazing." It averaged 8 million viewers with a 4.0/10 rating/share among viewers ages 18–49 "
To put these numbers in perspective Big Bang Theory which is imo an inferior show had at its height an average of 19.96 millions per episode.
In time online streaming (Netflix mainly) gave it a second breath and made into the cult classic we now know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(American_TV_series)#Ratings
https://www.reddit.com/r/DunderMifflin/comments/fr4cak/well_that_aged_like_milk/fltw9eg/ A comment to a deeper video on the subject.
MegaCrazyH on March 29th, 2020 at 13:05 UTC »
Didn't The Office survive the first season because of Steve Carell's star power and the retooling of Michael Scott to be more sympathetic instead of, as this blurb puts it, "gratingly unlikable loser?" I seem to remember hearing that retooling Michael Scott was part of why they got a second season to begin with. Which would make this review more prophetic than not; most people don't watch for season one Michael Scott but rather for season 2 and beyond Michael Scott.