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Original Post Date: 7/13/11

I have no idea how many viewers the show has, nor do I even know where to go to find that kind of information. I've also only watched the first episode, but I figured it set the pace for the rest of the season.

In order to determine the success of a show, I simply watch torrent traffic. I find that torrent activity is a huge reveal on the popularity and potential success of TV shows, films, games, and any other form of entertainment. And right now, The Nine Lives of Chloe King is not doing very well at all.. even when it's free and easy to download, no one wants to watch it.

When the cancellation announcement does come, I'm sure you'll also see many online publications exploiting the "Nine Lives" title as humor. It's just like the ever predictable "fail to the king baby" DNF jokes after the reviews came out.

While I'm on this subject, if you have the skill and ever wanted a highly successful web app, you should look into a torrent traffic aggregator. Nothing that actually links to torrents, but rather captures historical torrent traffic details (seeders, leechers, time/date) on a daily basis. Torrent traffic is great way of measuring potential success of TV shows especially. If NetFlix incorporated newer streaming TV shows, it would also be a great source of predicting success.

Once you've established some historical data, it makes it much easier to determine a scoring system for each TV show, game, or film. If you want to get fancy, you could also include ratings or reviews, how many people rated the item (more important than the actual rating itself), twitter chatter (are people talking about it?), and miscellaneous comments made about the show.

Not only would this be interesting for viewers, but this data would also prove to be highly valuable for the media networks, producers, and associated management teams. This even has the potential be a high performing paid service.