Andy Cohen, Dreama Walker & Larry King
on WWHL after RHoM. Thurs 25 Oct 2012
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After last week’s ratings nadir for any of the Real Housewives franchises, Bravo Media will be relieved that RHoM gained a few extra viewers this week. Last night was the beginning of the Neilsen Fall Sweeps and so every viewer counts. For their seventh episode (1st of a two parter, that concludes in a special Sunday 10/28 telecast) 859,000 viewers tuned in (an increase of 98,000 over the prior week) and the 18-49 demo returned to a barely passable 0.40.
Still this drops the season-to-date average to just 913,571 per episode and 0.41 in the 18-49 demo. These are down -21.03% in total audience and -30.95% in the 18-49 demo from their first season, no doubt much lower than Bravo would have expected when they scheduled the second half of the RHoM season to run through the Fall Sweeps. Given that we’re approaching the half way point of the season it would now seem too late for RHoM’s average to get above 1m million, which surely would be the minimum it would need to get a third season, given the expense of producing the show.
At 11pm Andy Cohen brought in the young and the old as Dreama Walker & Larry King were his guests but either not enough stayed around after the 10pm repeat of RHoM or there weren’t enough to begin with and as is usual for Andy’s Thursday edition of WWHL it didn’t rate higher enough to score a Top 100 Cable ranking. (Something that Conan on TBS and Chelsea Lately on E! both achieved last night).
All in all it wasn’t exactly an auspicious start to the sweeps but given Bravo Media’s recent Thursday ratings, it could have been worse.
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Source: Nielsen Media Research via TVByTheNumbers
[...] record last week, The Real Housewives of Miami saw an increase this week with its latest episode! BravoRatings.com reported that 98,000 more viewers thank last week tuned in, bringing the total to 859,000 total [...]
Too many cast members and too many airheads. atleast last year i could follow the show. Why not bring back Larsa and
Cristy they were more interesting than this bunch. Sorry, but Marysol and her mom should have been the ones to go in my opinion.
I’m just so uninterested in current bravo programming. I may watch RHOA, but I’m not looking that forward to it. It also seems like there is way too much Andy Cohen on the air – 5 nights a week and every reunion special is just overkill. I wish bravo would let someone else host the reunions – if all the host does is read questions from viewers, then any bravolebrity could do it. I think Gretchen Rossi or Phaedra parks would be great. Or even jenni pulous.