Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-60.240.26.67-20130311030933/@comment-1895174-20130314140521

Ninja 989 wrote:

Zergrinch wrote: SW:TCW is a special case, since it's funded by George Lucas who expressed he wanted 100 episodes at least, and damn the ratings. But it did get very good ratings. And they were planning on keeping it until Lucas sold out to disney. And ratings aren't really indicative of anything at this point, most people don't have a neilsen box, many people watch online, etc.

Although Nielsen ratings are incredibly outdated and less representative of a show's audience than they've ever been, they're still the metric networks and advertisers use to measure a show's worth. So they're important.