Top BitTorrent TV Downloads This Week
| Rank | Last Week | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Lost |
| 2 | 44 | Desperate Housewives |
| 3 | 41 | Grey’s Anatomy |
| 4 | 12 | Trading Spouses |
| 5 | 1 | Prison Break |
| 6 | 24 | Heroes |
| 7 | 13 | Smallville |
| 8 | 6 | One Tree Hill |
| 9 | 25 | South Park |
| 10 | 39 | How I Met Your Mother |
| 11 | 37 | Scrubs |
| 12 | 30 | The Simpsons |
| 13 | 23 | Samantha Who? |
| 14 | 4 | Supernatural (2005) |
| 15 | 32 | House M.D. |
| 16 | 26 | Battlestar: Galactica (2003) |
| 17 | 9 | Ugly Betty |
| 18 | 34 | Family Guy |
| 19 | 35 | Jericho |
| 20 | 40 | CSI |
Maybe ABC should reconsider allowing embeds of full episodes of its shows. ABC programming occupies four of the top five BitTorrented TV show downloads for the week ending May 19th, according to Big Champagne, which is going to regularly supply this data to NewTeeVee.
It looks like Britney’s boost to How I Met Your Mother extended into the BitTorrent world, and the May 18th season finale for Desperate Housewives gave that show a last-minute bump. Though Gossip Girl, which got yanked off the web by the CW, was in the top twenty earlier, it’s slipped off. But seriously, Trading Spouses is that popular on BitTorrent? Are people still into Marguerite Perrin?
It will be interesting to see what the next list looks like now that most of the season finales are over.
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WTF is Heroes doing at #6? Did everyone get excited because of a crappy add that promised the new season in September?!?
Tama on May 25th, 2008 at 12:30 am - Permalink
Whats interesting is that Its faster to get a show off bittorent than it is off the networks own sites that typically take 12 0r more hours make the shows available on their own or distribution partners sites due to distribution windows and other factors .
The Networks could make the show available right after it airs in a region and lock out IPs across time zones using geo location they also could use Geo Location to target advertising .
Matt on May 25th, 2008 at 5:47 am - Permalink
[...] Top bittorrent TV downloads for week endeing May 19 [...]
Monday Links | SFLTV - South Florida TV blog on May 26th, 2008 at 10:09 am - Permalink
Be uber careful of using BigChampaigne charts. There are a lot of music companies and networks that have canceled their subscription because their crap is not based on technology but guys collecting this crap by hand. The chart you pasted is how many people downloaded the .torrent file not downloaded the actually content. They don’t do peer level monitoring!!!!!
John Feliz on May 27th, 2008 at 11:32 am - Permalink
This chart sucks, I am having a hard time believing that Trading Spouses was downloaded more time than Heroes or Prison Break. I am not sure what sites they monitor, but just looking at Mininova.. there are over 2000 torrents for Heroes and Prison break each.. and Trading spouses has just 8… huh?
What are the numbers?? How many downloads? its very hard to digest this chart.. look at Desperate Housewives, jump from 44 to #2 in a week? and Prison break was #1 and now Trading Spouses with far less Torrents has beaten the show in this weeek?
I would like NewTeeVee to do some basic check before posting such charts and make sure these charts make sense….you can just check Mininova.. given you guys regularly keep posting about that site also…
Mininova Rocks on May 27th, 2008 at 11:47 am - Permalink