
His overruns are the worst ever. How can that be assessed as anything other than driving viewers away? Less people are tuning in for the overrun than ever before and that is supposed to be the segment that keeps viewers throughout the show and also will set up the following week..
FML.
Well now you've already changed your initial statement of "Punk's segments lose viewers every week", which is of course preposterous, to "he has weak overruns." So this debate's already over, you don't even agree with yourself.
To further clarify, what you REALLY mean to say is "Last week's overrun number was low and Meltzer made a big deal out of it so now I'm gonna further push this idea that Punk is somehow toxic to ratings even though he regularly provides the higher-rated segments of shows whose ratings overall are down, which is indicative of the continued problems with the company as a whole."
Again, the low number was + 400k or whatever it was. He's not LOSING viewers regularly like you claimed. Like so many TSC favorites actually do. The overrun and third hour as a whole have been weak since they went to 3 hours. Reasons being its too long and more often than not, NOTHING INTERSTING HAPPENS to make people want to watch. People tune in to see interesting things happen. If week after week, the overrun climaxes with a staredown, a non-confrontation, shouting at a referee, no one is gonna care who's involved.
The rare weeks when something interesting does happen at the end- shocker- more people watch and the overrun gets a good number. Btw pretty much all of those recent high overruns have also starred Punk but lets give everyone else credit for the good stuff so we have a nice, clean narrative.