
Heather, Carole, Aviva, Andy Cohen, Ramona, Sonja & LuAnn
RHoNY Reunion – Part 1 8th October 2012
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Last night the Real Housewives of New York City entered uncharted territory as, with a 19th episode airing, its fifth season became its longest. The first tranche of the RHoNY Reunion only managed to attract an audience of 1,700,000 (and a 0.80 in the 18-49 demo). Sadly, in overall viewers that’s less than the 2nd reunion episode from last season that Andy Cohen said caused the major recasting this season. What’s more, is that that viewer total is lower than even Season One’s reunion way back in 2008.
For the last 16 weeks Miss Advised and then Gallery Girls took the 10pm time slot after RHoNY, and as for RHoNY’s first two Season 5 episodes, this week RHoNY repeated with the repeat airing scoring an additional 1,012,000 viewers (18-49 demo 0.4). While this boosts the cumulative RHoNY audience, it also diluted the 9pm first airing’s ratings which might give Bravo PR some leeway to explain away the ratings decline. Read more


