On Friday at 8pm, NBC debuted a new reality series called School Pride. How does this one stack up? — a quick success or another candidate for quick cancellation?
School Pride tells the stories of communities who come together to renovate broken and aging public schools. The series follows parents, teachers, and students as they roll up their sleeves to make some positive changes. Hosts are Susie Castillo, Jacob Soboroff, Tom Stroup, and Kym Whitley.
In its first airing, School Pride attracted a meager 0.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.901 million total viewers. It landed in third place in the timeslot, tying with a repeat of No Ordinary Family on ABC.
The networks have lower expectations for Friday nights and reality programming but this is still a terrible showing. In the prized demo, it’s about half of what Dateline attracted a week earlier in the same timeslot.
Eight episodes of School Pride have been produced. NBC may let them all air but, based on this quantity of ratings, there doesn’t seem like much reason for the network to order a second season.
What do you think? Did you like School Pride or should it be cancelled?
Image courtesy NBC.
This show deserves to remain on TV. It is a study of the perseverance on the part of the children who attend these schools in need, the parents, the teachers. Then, these same children, parents and teachers have the opportunity to work to create a new learning environment. It is an inspiration to all and a great example of work ethic.
We all need to see more shows like this with real people. I hope that the school that was not maintained afterwards is now being proactively helped.
Keep keep keep!!!!! There was literally no advertisement for this show. No promotion. I just happened on it and it is one of the BEST reality show. It can educate the public on what needs to happen in education. This culture is sport and entertainment heavy. Educators are fighting an uphill battle in trying to get the community to see the extreme need of educating our future… and that is NOT standandized tests that politicians seem to think is the answer to everything. As an educator myself, I love seeing the expressions and joy on the students faces as they… Read more »
We should KEEP this show. School reform just doesn’t happen overnight, and this show is getting the message out in America that our schools need help.
Instead of cancelling it, there should be stronger advertisment and media coverage so people know it is on. I am in college to become an Early Childhood teacher, and hardly any professors or students in my depatment knows about this show!
Chris, I absolute agree with Friday Night at 10 PM as a time-slot is a show killer, but I’m hoping with all the bad rating they’re going to continue doing this show. Obviously this show has major backing with advertising a lot companies such as Walmart, Microsoft, All-Stars, Home Depot and some others, I don’t think it’s going to be canceled because of this even if it has poor ratings, but I do hope they do move it a bigger time slot as if these companies who donate might pull out as a supporter for the show. I tell everyone… Read more »
thank you so much for come to needles CA…an helping to fix up my school 🙂
I have only watched one did not know it was on TV. I watched the one with CMA school. I was so inspired. Here the kids are doing excellent and they want to shut it down. Pretty does not cut it. It was nice to see people that deserve it get something good. This show should be kept and moved to a earlier time. I don’t stay up till 10pm rarely. If this was on at 7pm there would be an phenominal increase in viewers. In these times we need something good to watch.
Thank you, Chris
Cancel. Its worse than terrible.
I saw the show, School Pride, for the first time and loved it. As a former public school teacher, I hope the show is not cancelled but goes on and on. We all need to do our part in helping our young people and in improving our schools.
You NEED to keep this show! It is an amazing show! It shows how communities should come together to SAVE their schools!
May need a new host, but please keep it.
SP volunteer,
What school did you volunteer? Has it aired yet?
Cancel School Pride. Its not at all a real fix it show. I volunteered and let me tell you they made things look ok for camera but then they left and it was a mess. Paint peeling, not complete, stuff not working, no way to pay for upkeep. Its a sappy badly produced mess and its not about real improvements to schools.
This is very sad I did not know. The one I watched was CMA. They do need to think about upkeep because this is how the schools got this way in the first place. I was very inspired when I watched, but this is sad to know what went on behind the cameras. We can not bandaid these places. We can do better.
Is everyone retarded?! This show does so much good for these kids, these communities. It’s raised soooo much awareness for these schools, these communities, OUR OWN communities already… Ending it now would senselessly kill so much great positive momentum. KEEP IT GOING PLEASE!!
KEEP IT. we don’t have anything like this. we HAVE to KEEP this show.
I definetly think you should keep the show!!!
I went to a very small town school in the midwest, and our school fell apart and finally was closed as unsafe. We were a town of 900, and there was no tv show to rebuild us. It is so inspirational, tells a story of how wonderful the USA small town people are………
Keep it !!!!