Since The Real Housewives Of Atlanta returned to Bravo TV’s schedule in November 2012, Sundays have consistently been the highest rated night each week for Bravo Media. With RHoA having wrapped last Sunday, there are four Sundays until the premiere of Season 5 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and it’s up to Married to Medicine to see if they can hold down the fort. But tonight at least they will get a little help from RHoA mega-star Nene Leakes.
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Just one week after announcing that Chef Roble & Co’s second season would premiere on June 4th at 10pm comes word that that’s already been changed. At 10:30pm on June 4th, Bravo Media will now air a one hour comedy special by Kathy Griffin titled Calm Down Gurrl.
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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 viewers (519,000 aged 18-49 – Demo 0.40), the season to date average is holding at 1,013,625 viewers (604,125 aged 18-49 – Demo 0.48) and that’s probably high enough to be renewed for a third season. However this season’s audience is seeing a decline of almost one third from her freshman season and if a third season is to eventuate it will probably need something more dramatic than just everyday life to occur to boost audience interest.
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Debuted on Bravo TV This Week
Without any doubt the Big Bravo story of the week was the highly successful debut of Married To Medicine, which became the highest rated premiere for any Bravo TV show (excluding spin-offs). We had predicted that for its premiere it would retain between 60% & 70% of the strong lead-in provided by The Real Housewives of Atlanta and it was towards the top end of that, holding on to 67.5% of it. With an opening audience of 1,892,000 (1,196,000 aged 18 to 49 years – Demo 0.9), it beat out the Season 1 premier of The Real Housewives of New Jersey which debuted to 1,720,000 in May 2009, but not Bethenny Frankel’s spin-off. Frankel’s solo show grew out of the third season of The Real Housewives of New York; and in its first season was called Bethenny’s Getting Married?, which attracted an audience of 2,096,000 (1,350,000 aged 18-49, Demo 1.0) in June 2010. Read more
Andy Cohen, Caroline Manzo and Bobby Moyhnihan
WWHL S09E54 28 March 2013
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Although Bravo Media tout themselves as offering five nights of original programming, Thursday nights have for a long time been their weakest night; both for the number of hours of original programming aired as well as their ratings. Yesterday, in what may turn out to be an astute programming move, next Tuesday’s episode of Millionaire Matchmaker was aired at 10pm, and gave a great boost to the two programs that followed.
With Patti Stanger’s Matchmaker added to the schedule and drawing 986,000 viewers at 10pm, that propelled Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live to his best Thursday ratings in a long time and it was up almost 17% versus the previous Thursday. In fact, the 664,000 that tuned into to watch Caroline Manzo and Bobby Moyhnihan was even higher than the number who tuned into to see Kathy Griffin when she was on Tuesday night (also following an episode of Matchmaker). Read more