Matt Moneymaker Addresses Haters With Latest Finding Bigfoot Ratings Report From Network
All y'all hater out there, get a life-- because Matt Moneymaker isn't going anywhere. By his latest Twitter status, you can tell how happy he was when the latest report concluded that Animal Planet's FINDING BIGFOOT had a strong nine-episode run this past Sunday with the second season averaging more than 1.3M P2+ viewers, up 15% vs. season one (1.38M vs. 1.2M).
Here's the ratings report detailing two new international episodes in the works:
[via press release from Animal Planet]
ANIMAL PLANET FINDS MAMMOTH-SIZED RATINGS FOR "FINDING BIGFOOT"
-- Network Orders Additional Episodes of the Series That Squatched Season One Ratings --
(New York, New York, March 12, 2012) - Animal Planet's FINDING BIGFOOT concluded a strong nine-episode run this past Sunday with the second season averaging more than 1.3M P2+ viewers, up 15% vs. season one (1.38M vs. 1.2M). It now ranks among Animal Planet's top-three performing series of all time among P2+. Animal Planet ordered additional episodes, which are slated to air later this year, including two to be shot internationally.
Overall, FINDING BIGFOOT season two premieres outpaced season one performance across all key demos, including P25-54 +17% (716K vs. 612K); P18-49 +23% (682K vs. 554K); M25-54 +9% (418K vs. 382K); and W25-54 +30% (298K vs. 229K). FINDING BIGFOOT helped Animal Planet rank among the top-five ad-supported cable networks in the Sun 10 PM hour based on M25-54 delivery in 1Q12 to date (excluding movies and sports). The FINDING BIGFOOT episodes, "Baby Bigfoot" and "Buckeye Bigfoot," each brought in 1.6M P2+ viewers and rank as the series' most-watched episodes ever.
MM even knows this season sucks. I'll take him at his word and look forward to next season.
ReplyDeleteMm is the BOSS. No one knows more about big foots. He invented the wood knock and is the only person who knows how to set up game cams. When you haters have done 25 years hard time in the woods then you can talk. I hope MM is the person that proves their existence. No one deserves it more.
ReplyDeleteI've always wanted to meet MM's mom!
DeleteMm did not invent the wood knock...research it...wood knocks were written about in the 60's..mm couldn't set up a cam trap to save his life....mm has found zero evidence in 25 years...he laid claim to others work and has ridden the backs of what others have done...he is nothing more than a Tom biscardi wanna be.....and that's bad...
DeleteMatt is that you?
DeleteAgreed!!!
DeleteCongratulations to the BFRO
ReplyDeleteRick Dye bigfoottracker.com
Happy to hear Matt is successful. Congrats to the BFRO from the best Bigfoot trackers on the planet; if truth be known; in the entire UNIVERSE! TeamTazerBigfoot SWO
DeleteUnless the show gets better, I doubt I'll be watching it.
ReplyDeleteMonetary success doesn't necessarily make it a good show.
I look forward to watching everyweek.....love the show and can't wait for more.
ReplyDeleteAs an ardent bigfooter even I find this show totally boring by now, in fact I've only seen three of this season's episodes so far. Normally I'd have a huge interest in everything Bigfoot on TV, but somehow this show's destroyed something in that need. If it's brought more interest in the subject that's fine, I'm just not sure it's for any kind of new seriousness. Let's face it, apart from Cliff's levelheaded presence it's on the crappy side and can't hold a candle to MonsterQuest.
DeleteYou know, I do enjoy making fun of MM, but the truth is he's a classic nerd. He becomes so passionate and so focused about the subject that he loses his temper and snaps if people interrupt. It gives him a rep as a tool. He has some insane theories that come across and sometimes I'm not sure if he is so passionate about the subject that he gives it a romantic twist or if he really believes every thought that enters his mind without calling it to task to prove itself. You know the syndrome, "I thought it and I'm a smart person, so therefore it is the truth." I don't think the show would be the same without his grumpy curmudgeons ways or his insane experiments. I know I'd be hard strapped to continue live blogging and the LAUGH series without him, so he serves a purpose.
ReplyDeleteLOL and please I hope you and Shawn will keep up your live blogging.
DeleteIt's only a matter of time before he theorizes that Sasquatch THROW cars at deer.
DeleteGood post Autumn. You saved me a lot of typing time. Congratulations to MM and Cliff, Ranae, and Bobo who make up a pretty good team. Best of luck on season three.
DeleteGone Squatchin
Chuck
Giligans island had good ratings also. Everyone I know who watches it thinks its a comedy of fools save for cliff. The fact is that if any other network would put out a series with credible researchers it would blow them out of the water....two seasons of no real findings. I guess mm doesn't care that Fb is the joke of the crypto world...with edited in sound evidence and the only tracks found were found not by the researchers but by the production crew and later staged to seem as if found by them....the show and mm are silly at best...
ReplyDeleteI think/hope the show's days are numbered. I've already quit watching it 3 episodes back and haven't even been curious of what I "missed".
ReplyDeletescooby has been around for around 40 years good luck with the next 37 or so years matt.
ReplyDeleteyour friend t. bizcardy
It’s a sad thing to see so many heartless individuals on this site. Can’t you just enjoy something for what it is. Get a life. MM has brought us something we have a shared interest in so let’s be happy. We all have our opinions but like the cliché, keep them to your selves. I am happy for MM and the crew and I hope he keeps going with his enthusiasm despite all the naysayers. By the way MM, Bigfoot is man.
ReplyDeleteI've nothing against Moneymaker but I will say that I have heard a lot of people online talk about loving and watching the show because it is hilarious. They don't think Bigfoot is real and think the guys on the show are idiots basically. They watch it to laugh at it. I'm just saying that these people count for ratings too and the number of viewers is not necessarily a good indicator of "success" in this field.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but not that many people (1.2 million) will watch a show that they do not like simply because they want to laugh at someone who they believe to be foolish.
DeleteAny person who has been in the outdoors much realizes that the techniques used by the FB team are mostly for entertainment/educational purposes to get those who do not know much about this creature to become interested in the show and learning more.
I watch the show and I realize in advance that an entire crew of camera people, video recorders, mics, etc. will scare off any animal if you go trampsing around in the woods at night.
I like to hear the stories from eye-witnesses and the occasional videos that they produce and debate about.
All the loud crew activity surely would scare away big animals so I'm surprised Matt goes for all the noise, and still thinks that's what Bigfoot is and how contact should be made. Just a big animal that's somehow manlike intelligent enough to muster neverending curiousity in our species, a kind of stupid theory wouldn't you say. Bigfoot behavior appears mostly non-ape I'd say, they're not doing too many ape things according to witnesses. Even we would make beds of grass if slepping in the wild.
DeleteYour wrong,the American people will watch a crap show.WHY ? Because its just that a crap show,that is so stupid one can't look away.The laughter just gets better each week,with every stupid comment Matt Find nothing and Bobo make...Do they dream this crap up.Check some of the behaviors ( they know to be true ) and have even talked to ( others ) that have also seen.Push deer into traffic.to take the road kill.. love it..BF walks along bank of lake BF will walk on stones to hide footprints.Loved that one Bobo so much woke my wife up laughing. Hell,forget Animal Planet, M$ take this to Hollywood ! I see a full length movie !What I would love to see and pay good money for is to have Matt hooked up to a lie detector.Come on AP your team can't find BF.let's prove to the WORLD that its real.M$ passes test .What a show,the numbers will be HUGE ! !
DeleteIt's a stupid show. They'll never find bigfoot on that show and they know it. Then to fill up air time for all the bigfoots they aren't finding, they position themselves as the authorities on whether someone else's verbal or video experience is authentic or not - yeah, right. They have no credibility and their TV speaking voices get on my nerves - got on my nerves. I don't watch anymore.
ReplyDeleteBo bo is a likable person, but the others are just fuckin irritating! But i admit i cant stop watching, even tho i havent even seen them find a clear footprint yet! Its bittersweet
ReplyDeleteMatt cracked me up in the NY episode when he and Renee found that old abandoned house ans Matt said "What a swanky pad" that the house used to be" That was a classic So Cal moment with his Cali accent..so surfer "dudish"
ReplyDeleteThis show is not for everyone. I watch it every week or DVR if I can't. I do not enjoy watching many of the new shows like the Bachellor or whatever. Just because I don't enjoy it, obviously doesn't mean that there isn't a market for it out there.
ReplyDeleteI think that the average person realizes that the Bachellor is probably not a "real" version of how to meet and marry someone. Everything is made of t.v on this show too. Producers taylor their shows to entertain the masses.
Yea and so many people watch NASCAR because they want to see cars go around in circles for 3 hours.
ReplyDeleteScott McMan
Ghosttheory.com
I love the show. Me and my son love watching it together. I love life's mysteries like this. I think that Finding Bigfoot should do a show entirely on the Ericson habituation site. I also think that it would be cool if they branched out and searched for a few other different monsters beside Bigfoot.
ReplyDeleteChad W
Been a good show. They changed the format a bit this year with the overnight stays. What will they do this coming season?
ReplyDeleteGonna have to watch and see...
1%
Gotta dig those screaming animations they have, keeping the dumb idea alive it's a monster. LOL Most of the team's actually quite likeable, even the nerdy Ranea whose conclusions may be wrong 9 out of 10 times, but Matt's the really weird one. Passionate is ok, stubborn is not and the way he carries on with his ancient animal theory the sillier he'll look when there's proof the species is more human. For pepe's sake, it even speaks(!) looks and walks humanlike yet Matt still calls it an animal! Boy, is he ever wrong. LOL
ReplyDeleteScammer, hoaxer, fraud: Just a few of Moneymaker's alter-egos. He gets a one hour paid advertisement for his "Scientific Research Organization for which he then gets paid to do. Dude has it figured out. Something has to pay for those law school loans. The suckers that go on the "expeditions" created this monster to begin with. Hmmm, let's pay $600 to go camping and have rocks thrown at us by one of MM's cronies. Sorry, but he tries to be legit but is no better than a Biscardi. By posting his tweet above, he really shows it is all about the money and carrying on the charade he has for nearly two decades.
ReplyDeleteWhen a show this incredibly bad can get an enthusiastic renewal, my faith in humanity suffers. Sadly, this indicates to me that the idiots in this country (USA) may actually outnumber those with common sense.
ReplyDeletePoor ole Moneymaker.....
ReplyDeleteevery sound is a saquatch.....every howl , every twig.
I guess you have to admire his passion.....misguided as it may be. I truly wonder if he seriously believes every noise , and I do mean EVERY noise he hears, is a squatch.
And WHY are they in such a hurry to leave? LOL
I mean...you all say you all see it , hear it....no pics of course, no hair, no skat, but you all agree they are there.....but...then you skee daddle.....
amazingly stupid show....