In our projections for this week’s ratings we suggested that for the 3rd episode of ‘RHoNY’ an audience of 1.6m was the benchmark to beat but this, the 3rd episode fell to a season low of 1,390,000. Last week, with airings both at 9/8c & at 10/9c, meant the core audience was split between those two time slots. The 9pm showing scored 1,430,000 and the 10pm was watched by 803,000 for a combined audience of 2,233,000.

This week with just a 9/8c showing (plus a late encore after ‘WWHL’ at 11.30pm) last week’s audience total of 1.43m at 9/8c should have been relatively easy to beat, but dropping even 40,000 as the 3rd episode did, to 1,390,000 is not a sign of growing strength. During last night’s East Coast airing, newcomer Aviva Drescher was tweeting up a storm against Ramona Singer accusing her of ‘pino (sic) binges‘ and Huffington Post’s Rob Shuter is reporting that next week’s fourth episode is a great one and full of drama. Let’s hope that plenty of people tune in to enjoy it.

That “RHoNY‘ lead-in meant that ‘Miss Advised‘ didn’t make the Cable Top 100 so we’ll need to do some digging around and will report back.

Update – June 21st, 2012

We’ve just got the numbers for the premiere and they are not good BUT, and this is the only positive, they aren’t as bad as the premiere of ‘Love Broker‘. Lori Zaslow’s New York based Matchmaker vehicle, debuted in March in the low to mid 400k’s and 0.2 in the demo and was pulled from the schedules after just two episodes. The premiere of ‘Miss Advised’ was watched by 566,000 viewers, scoring 0.3 in the demo. That 0.30 demo percentage was important as 0.20 was the number ‘Love Broker’ couldn’t get above and although ‘80 Plates‘, ‘Pregnant in Heels‘ & ‘Kathy‘ might have larger total audiences they too often only have 0.30 demo score. For the moment it’s fair to say that ‘Miss Advised’ is safe from experiencing the same fate as ‘Love Broker’. ‘Miss Advised’ kept 40% of the still reducing ‘RHoNY‘ lead in and with news that NY’s 4th episode next week is a great one, let’s hope that RHoNY’s audience grows and therefore gives “Miss Advised’ a bump too.

From original – June 19th, 2012 report

Ramona Singer had a tall order to beat Teresa Giudice’s ratings on Sunday’s WWHL as she not only had a larger audience as a lead-in (‘RHoNJ’ scored 2.65m) but there also wasn’t any any gap being ‘RHoNJ’ finishing & ‘WWHL’ starting, whereas Ramona’s fans had the hour of ‘Miss Advised‘ to curl their toes and might have forgotten to switch back to Bravo at 11pm. And they did as just like ‘Miss Advised’ Ramona’s appearance on WWHL also didn’t make the Top 100.

Tonight the first of RHOC‘s two part finale airs at 9/8c, followed by ‘Pregnant in Heels‘ at 11pm, Andy is joined by Gretchen Rossi and Niecy Nash on ‘WWHL’

Source: Nielsen Media Research via TVByTheNumbers and/or TheFutonCritic