Just How Can Sarah Michelle Gellar's 'Ringer' Ratings Rival 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'?

Ringer launched to solid ratings Tuesday, but it'll be a continuing fight for Sarah Michelle Gellar whether or not this desires to match the performance of her WB/UPN series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.our editor recommends'Ringer' Co-Star Nestor Carbonell Discusses Parallels to 'Lost' and 'The Killing' (Video)'Ringer': Kristoffer Polaha Unveils Why His Character Needs To Be Sarah Michelle Gellar's 'No. 1 Lover' (Video)TV Ratings: Sarah Michelle Gellar's 'Ringer' Debuts to OK Ratings Following its 90120 lead-in, the rookie drama shipped 2.84 million total audiences for your CW together with single.2 rating inside the grownups 18-49 demographic (and broadening the network's demos). Even though it marked the network's best performance within the time-frame in three years, Gellar's Buffy effort -- a midseason entry altering Savannah on March 10, 1997 -- launched to 4.8 million total audiences together with a couple. inside the 18-49 demo through the 9-10 p.m. hour. Among grownups 18-34, Buffy, which went in a really different television landscape from 1997 to 2003, came single.9 rating. (It opened up getting a 2-hour telecast from 8-10 p.m.) PHOTOS: Fall's 12 Most Anticipated Shows "We appear such as the merchandise will there be. We just need people to look at it," Ringer executive producer and co-creator Eric Charmleo told The Hollywood Reporter while watching show's launch. "With Sarah Michelle attached, we'd be hard-pressed not to fill that mandate." To make certain, when Buffy opened up concerning the WB in 1997, viewing habits differed greatly, with less viewing options (original programming on cable) and items (Dvr, streaming). Still, throughout the initial season of Buffy, which broadcast on Mondays at 9 p.m., the supernatural drama averaged roughly 3.7 million per episode. Season 3 shown being the show's best season, calculating roughly 5.3 million each week. Through the final half from the second season, Buffy switched time slots to Tuesdays at 8 p.m., where it continued to be for your relaxation of the run. COMIC-Disadvantage: TV's 6 Most-Wanted Women Executive producer and co-creator Nicole Snyder told THR the difficulties to keep Ringer's complex premise aren't lost inside it. "We're constantly making certain the questions as well as the mysteries that individuals established inside the pilot are clarified throughout our first season," she mentioned. "We're very alert to reacting to questions, giving everyone else information but tease these with new information and branching the mystery. We wish people to help keep coming back for further.In . Particularly, Ringer first demonstrated to roughly the identical number inside the ad-coveted demo (1.2) since the canceled Hellcats did last September, though Hellcats -- devoted to many college cheerleaders -- was without the identical level of anticipation. Since the first newcomer series beginning this television season, the CW is supplying the Ringer pilot two more occasions (Friday at 8 p.m. and Monday at 9 p.m.) wishing more audiences will sample the show and return on its regular evening. Email: philiana.ng@thr.com Related Subjects TV Ratings Buffy the Vampire Slayer The CW Sarah Michelle Gellar