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The Borgias - Sets Ratings Record

4 Apr 2011

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More good Sunday night ratings news: Showtime’s new series The Borgias had the pay TV network’s strongest drama premiere in seven years. The Jeremy Irons historical drama had 1 million viewers for its premiere, then added another 432,000 viewers during its encore for a 1.5 million tally. That’s up notably from the series debut of Shameless (982,000) and United States of Tara (881,000), but down from the debut of The Big C (1.2 million). (And, yes, I realize The Big C, like Nurse Jackie, is classified as a comedy by Showtime, but Showtime’s comedies are sometimes about as close to being comedies as Dante’s Divine Comedy is a comedy). Also, here are the ratings for The Killing and The Kennedys premieres.

AMC’s The Killing got off to a healthy start Sunday night in the ratings, with the two-hour premiere drawing 2.7 million viewers.

The Kennedys were certainly a boon to Reelz. The world premiere of the miniseries on Sunday averaged 1.9 million viewers — a record for the basic cable channel that reaches 60 million homes.

Source: EW
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10 comments:

  1. darq4 April 2011 at 21:59

    I wonder if more records will be broken when Game of Thrones airs in....

    13 days, 4 hours, 59 minutes and 00 seconds
    13 days, 4 hours, 58 minutes and 59 seconds

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  2. DarkUFO4 April 2011 at 22:10

    I think it could come very close :)

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  3. Bob4 April 2011 at 22:44

    2.7 for the Killing? How's that for AMC, good if I'm not wrong?

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  4. DarkUFO4 April 2011 at 22:50

    Good I think

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  5. LexterPedia5 April 2011 at 01:53

    far behind Walking Dead, but who can beat a deadly zombie uprising

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  6. Urinal Turd5 April 2011 at 06:57

    Nowhere near The Walking Dead, but that show broke a lot of records for AMC. But it's a lot better than Rubicon which has been AMC's weakest show ratings-wise so far.

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  7. Urinal Turd5 April 2011 at 06:58

    Glad to see The Killing had a proper start, it was a great premiere.

    The Borgias was not bad, but couldn't win me over yet.

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  8. DarkUFO5 April 2011 at 07:03

    Lil, very true, twd beat most records i believe

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  9. Clyde Johnson6 April 2011 at 18:35

    Yeah, I gave up halfway through The Borgias.

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  10. Urinal Turd7 April 2011 at 14:25

    It was weird. Some things felt incredibly rushed and fast-paced, other things could have moved forward quicker. The show didn't find its proper pacing at all. I find the topic of the show interesting, so I'll give it a few more episodes, hope it'll improve.

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