Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Cable TV Ratings, News, Nielsen Ratings, Sci Fi, Television.
On October 31st starting at 11:00 PM and running to 5:00AM on November 1st, Sci Fi aired a special 6 hour live “Ghost Hunters” program.
Ghost Hunters Live revisited the notoriously haunted Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado for a real-time Halloween-night investigation. As the legend goes, Stephen King took up residence at the Stanley while writing his best-selling novel The Shining and the spooky goings on at the hotel reportedly served as the inspiration for his best-selling tome.
The program averaged a 0.9 household rating and 944,000 total viewers, 577,000 P25-54, 698,000 P18-49 from 11:00PM to 5:00AM.
The program registered its largest audience in its first hour; 1.3 household rating and 1.4 million total viewers.
Those ratings in the time period (11:00PM to 5:00AM) registered gains of 80% in households, 119% in P25-54, 174% in P18-49 and 107% in total viewers.
It was the highest rated 11:00PM to 5:00AM period since January of 2002.
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Nielsen Ratings, Sports, Television.
The October 31st doubleheader between the Chicago Bulls/Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns/Los Angeles drew the largest audience for a premiere night of basketball on TNT since the 2003-04 season, averaging a 1.7 household rating. That was up a strong 38% from last year’s opening-night doubleheader, which averaged a 1.3 household rating.
TNT also posted major gains in the networks key demos, including men 18-49 (988,000) where it was up 39% from last year’s 712,000.
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Renewals, Television.
Showtime has ordered a second season of its new show “Dexter”. The series premiered with 603,000 viewers on Sunday, October 1 at 10:00PM with a solid 443,000 viewers tuning in for the immediate repeat at 11:00PM, bringing the total to 1.04M for the first episode. Those numbers were Showtime’s best since the premiere of “Fat Actress” back in March of 2005.
The series has continued to average about 2M viewers a week when tallying all airings on the Showtime networks.
Production will begin on 12 new episodes in early 2007 for a 2nd season premiere of Summer 2007.
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