SHOWTIME® ORDERS SECOND SEASON OF RAY DONOVAN
THE NETWORK’S HIGHEST- RATED SERIES DEBUT EVER
Following Record-Breaking Premiere Week With Over 6 Million Viewers
Exciting news! Having made network history as its highest rated original series premiere ever and with continued ratings success in weeks two and three, SHOWTIME has picked up a second season of its critically acclaimed drama series RAY DONOVAN.Created and executive produced by Ann Biderman, the series stars Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award nominee Liev Schreiber in his first lead television role. RAY DONOVANdelivered the best debut of any freshman SHOWTIME comedy or drama series with six million viewers for its premiere across platforms (including replays, On Demand and Live+7). The series is also the first freshman drama in network history to improve on its series premiere in week two, up an impressive 15 percent in its second week on-air. The second season of RAY DONOVAN will return to SHOWTIME in 2014.
Don’t miss new episodes of RAY DONOVAN on Sundays at 10 P.M. ET/PT only on SHOWTIME.
Source: Showtime
THE NETWORK’S HIGHEST- RATED SERIES DEBUT EVER
Following Record-Breaking Premiere Week With Over 6 Million Viewers
Exciting news! Having made network history as its highest rated original series premiere ever and with continued ratings success in weeks two and three, SHOWTIME has picked up a second season of its critically acclaimed drama series RAY DONOVAN.Created and executive produced by Ann Biderman, the series stars Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award nominee Liev Schreiber in his first lead television role. RAY DONOVANdelivered the best debut of any freshman SHOWTIME comedy or drama series with six million viewers for its premiere across platforms (including replays, On Demand and Live+7). The series is also the first freshman drama in network history to improve on its series premiere in week two, up an impressive 15 percent in its second week on-air. The second season of RAY DONOVAN will return to SHOWTIME in 2014.
Don’t miss new episodes of RAY DONOVAN on Sundays at 10 P.M. ET/PT only on SHOWTIME.
Source: Showtime
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ReplyDeleteWell 2 first episodes were mediocore
ReplyDeleteI won't make it to season two if Ray's wife doesn't stop making me want to reach through my TV screen and strangle her.
ReplyDeleteShowtime, what is wrong with you? First, you cancelled Borgias and now you renew such crappy show.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing wrong with Showtime. They renewed a show that a lot of people watch. That's how it works. The Borgias, on the other hand, was a show that few people watched, garnered next to no buzz for the network, and that the creator didn't have an interest in continuing with. Both were easy calls for the network.
ReplyDeleteReally? I thought the second episode definitely stepped it up. This past episode also kept the trajectory with the mysterious "undercover agent." Not quite on bar with GoT/Walking Dead/Dexter/etc. but it's close and and potential. Being renewed is great news!
ReplyDeleteCreator had interest in continuing. Neil Jordan said few months ago that he wanted to end it with two hours movie. The only problem was network which didn't want to give money.
ReplyDeleteRight. He wanted an expensive movie to wrap it up. He didn't want to continue making any more seasons of the show.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen Sunday's Ray episode yet.
ReplyDeleteSecond episode was better that first, but still.. I'm a huge Showtime fan and been waiting for this show for a long time, but as of today i'm not impressed.
I agree with Brucey. Making a wrap-up movie never works for tv. It has to be something big to do that at least, and they still have problems with that. The Borgias was a small show.
ReplyDeleteYes, as I remember he said that there wasn't enough material for whole season, but if it was really all about money, wouldn't it be cheapier to make tv movie that 10 episodes?
ReplyDeleteIt would be less expensive to produce than ten more episodes but Showtime would take a bigger financial hit on a film because one-time wrap up films aren't easy to recoup expenses from like a standard season order is. That's why TV movies are a dying breed on broadcast TV and have migrated over to basic cable where they do them on the cheap at networks like Lifetime, Syfy, and the Hallmark channel.
ReplyDeleteI have no interest in watching TBH. The promos bored me, and If a promo can't catch my interest, I am not sure the show can.
ReplyDeleteyeah but couldn't they atleast give it a shorter final season like 4 episodes to wrap things up, they did with The Big C, and it's ratings where nowhere near the Borgias levels
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned previously, the creator of The Borgias, Neil Jordan, decided he didn't want to do another season, shortened or otherwise. He was only interested in a wrap-up film. I suppose Showtime could have done a shortened season without him but Jordan had written every single episode of the show so it probably wouldn't have been worth it anyway.
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