# What's the success rate of the post-Super Bowl timeslot? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 29, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-success-rate-of-the-post-super-bowl-timeslot/52204 "2001-01-29T03:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hokienautic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@Hokienautic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokienautic)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-success-rate-of-the-post-super-bowl-timeslot/52204/1 "2001-01-29T03:34:20Z")
Common wisdom supposedly says that the post-Super Bowl timeslot is one of the bigger non-special-event timeslots of the year. (By “non-special-event” I mean a timeslot that shows NSEs, not that the Super Bowl isn’t a special event.) This year, of course, Survivor II is showing after the Super Bowl, in an effort to give it a huge kick start. In past years it’s been used to premiere other shows, season premieres, and first-run movies. Does anyone know the success rate of those series that debut after the Super Bowl? In the back of my mind I have a vague recollection of a show that was supposed to be kick-butt, and was on first thing after the Super Bowl … but quickly fizzled. But for the life of me, I can’t remember details. So IS the post-Super Bowl timeslot a virtual guarentee for success, or has it been hit-and-miss with its share of failures? And just what IS that one big show I’m trying to remember that fizzled? Or am I remembering wrong? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-success-rate-of-the-post-super-bowl-timeslot/52204/2 "2001-01-29T04:44:32Z")
Some recent choices: 2000 - The Practice 1999 - Family Guy & Simpsons 1998 - 3rd Rock from the Sun 1997 - X-Files 1996 - Friends (w/ Julia Roberts and Van Damme) 1995 - Extreme (starring James Brolin) Extreme may be the one you are thinking of. Apparently it died so fast the networks gave up on launching new series. Here’s a (somewhat) relevant article: [http://www.ohio.com/bj/fun/tv/1998/012498.html](http://www.ohio.com/bj/fun/tv/1998/012498.html)