UPDATED After S02E04 which Aired May 29th, 2013 Last week’s fourth episode saw a remarkable audience increase from their previous three, and with 1,198,000 viewers tuning in (652,000 aged 18-49 Demo 0.50), set not just a season high but was also higher than any audience
Update Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 The second episode of Newlyweds; The First Year held up very well, dropping only 6.70% versus its premiere last week, as 947,000 viewers (demo 0.40), stayed wed to their new show for a second week. These ratings are heartening for
Update May 31st, 2013 With only a couple of episodes left in Kim Zolciak’s second season of her spin-off, she’s managing, but only just, to keep her season-to-date average above the 1m viewer mark. Despite Tuesday May 28th’s episode dropping below that mark with 947,000
Update May 14th, 2013 Despite the declines earlier in the evening, Episode Eight of Fashion Queens still ranked in the Nightly Cable Top 100 TV shows with 862,000 viewers tuning in and 0.40 in the 18-49 demo. After 8 episodes, Fashion Queens is averaging 982,000
UPDATED May 31, 2013 Kandi Burruss saw her spin-off limp off Bravo TV’s Sunday schedule, with just 627,000 viewers tuning in for the finale. While that was the third lowest audience in overall viewers it was the second lowest in the ad coveted 18 to
Updated after S05E06 Aired May 9th, 2013 Last Thursday saw the half way stage for Tabatha Coffey’s fifth season of Tabatha Takes Over, and for the second week running Tabatha’s show rated better than the Married to Medicine lead-in preview, that was scheduled to provide
Update Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 After last week’s season high getting so close to breaching the magic 2m viewers mark, no doubt the cast of The Real Housewives of Orange County would have been looking to better that last night and continue to build on
Update May 31st, 2013The two reunion airings on Sunday May 26th and Tuesday May 28th both witnessed precipitous ratings declines from the 1.8m viewer average that the nine regular episodes achieved. At 9pm Sunday 5/26 1,222,000 viewers (658,000 aged 18-49 – Demo 0.50) and on
Updated and includes ratings for Tina Fey S19E01 which aired Tuesday, March 19th 2013 Inside the Actors Studio, which commenced its run on Bravo back on August 14th, 1994 is still airing new programming almost 20 years later with its nineteenth season beginning March 2013,
Without RHoA Bravo Media see Sunday May 12 Ratings Fall Dramatically
Sunday was the first night in its eight airings to date that Married to Medicine had to go it alone with the benefit of The Real Housewives of Atlanta or Nene Leakes providing its lead-in. Last week with Nene Leakes’ WWHL special pulling just 1.38m viewers, saw M2M fall to its second lowest audience rating (1.58m viewers), and this week we expected it to see a further reduction to around 1.5m.
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In a sign that Nielsen Sweep’s Months no longer hold the importance they once did, Bravo Media has a relatively lacklustre line up of programming this week and in fact on Thursday May 16the there will be no original programming airing at all.
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Sunday May 5th began without a new episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta which had headlined Sundays since November 2012, and its loss to Bravo Media’s schedule was felt immediately. However, in an attempt to mitigate its loss, Watch What Happens Live Special – Nene One-on-One opened the evening at 8/7c.
In our weekly forecast report we had predicted that around 1.5m viewers would tune in to Nene Leakes with Andy Cohen and with 1,381,000 viewers tuning in at 9pm (demo 0.5) our prediction was off by 8%. More important though, was that that was a 43% reduction in that time-slot from the previous week’s RHoA, Secrets Revealed episode and was the first of four shows that night which all seeing lower ratings. Read more
Last Thursday saw the half way stage for Tabatha Coffey’s fifth season of Tabatha Takes Over, and for the second week running Tabatha’s show rated better than the Married to Medicine lead-in preview, that was scheduled to provide a ratings boost for the 10pm hour. The previous week Married to Medicine’s preview attracted 732,000 (0.40) but on Thursday May 8th could only muster 633,000 (demo 0.20), and this decline seems to be in sync with the ratings reductions it is also seeing on Sundays.
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Yesterday news broke of a ‘strike’ due to a RHoNY pay stand-off, by the six returning cast of The Real Housewives of New York as they attempt to wangle greater financial rewards from their paymasters Bravo Media. Since 2006 Bravo Media have built a cash generator of massive proportions with their mega-successful franchise and while it’s true that RHoNY last season fell to become the second lowest rated of the Housewives’ franchise (in the USA Anyway), it is still a huge cash cow for Bravo TV and their owners Comcast. Read more