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The new Hasbro/Discovery kids channel The Hub launched Sunday with solid increases vs. its predecessor Discovery Kids, but it still has long ways to go to catch up with the leaders in the space Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. For its first day, the Hub drew an average of 135,000 viewers, an increase of 650%. In primetime, Hub’s audience was 217,000, up 1347%. Over at Showtime, Dexter (1.9 million viewers) was up 10% from last week, while HBO’s Boardwalk Empire (2.6 million) slipped 26%. Similarly, Bored to Death (859,000) was down 22%, Eastbound & Down (1.2 million) was down 31%. Sunday’s cable primetime was dominated by TBS’ baseball playoff coverage, which drew 4.7 million viewers.
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The HUB day # 2… a big fat 0.0 HH average for total day. GREAT SUCCESS!
Wow. Hard to type while axe grinding? New player in town is great for everyone.
Episode 4 of Boardwalk Empire was great. It was the best episode yet. The scene where Chalky White gave that speech was incredible. A real turning point for the show.
I agree with Jack. This episode flew. Buscemi’s opening scene in front of the mirror practicing how to look “surprised” was an instant classic. It was Nucky and finally Margaret’s show. I love how the writers are threading them together. The look of the party was visually stunning. I would like a lot less of Al Capone. as sociopaths like him get boring fast. I could also care less about Mickey Doyle. Boring mobster stuff we’ve seen a million times. Jimmy’s mom and Lucky were really sexy. I must say I like the women more than the men. Their stories seem much more compelling to me.
Boardwalk raised its game with this episode. I thought it defined what the series was capable of. In this episode the characters had some psychological depth. Everything with the Margaret story line was cooking and Kelly Mc Donald and Buscemi have genuine chemistry. The choice of “Alice Blue Gown” was very clever and her speech on suffrage was a turning point for the character.
Jeremy Podwesa did an excellent job helming. The writing was strong.
The female characters are engaging now that they are getting some screen time.
Boardwalk Empire is lousy. A cartoon. Seriously miscast (Steve Buscemi? For that role? Really? He always does the same thing in every role, the same guy. Just not convincing in this role in the least). I like period stuff a lot, but this feels fake, paper thin. Not at all surprised the numbers dropped that dramatically.
You and ‘posting’ isn’t really working out so well, is it? Steve Buscemi is what makes this show! And who else is “miscast”. Surely not Michael Stuhlbarg as Arnold Rothstein, Michael Shannon as Nelson Van Alden or Michael K Williams as Chalky White. This cast is one of cable’s finest, and it shows in every episode.
Have you seen anything past the premiere? I was in your shoes after watching the first episode. I suggest you keep watching and educate yourself a bit before you go and bash a show based on your first impression.
For the love of the Wonder Years, the Hub better survive.
Boardwalk is the finest written and directed show on TV right now. I am blown away by the level of quality. Football has dominated Sunday nights leaving the majority of the fans to watch BE on their DVR’s.
Episodes 3 and 4 were the best episodes by far. I agree that episodes 1 and 2 were slow but still brilliant. Gretchen Mol and Kelly McDonald were fantastic in 4. The women in BE are the show.
I don’t know man. I thought this last episode was absolutely brilliant with that speech that Michael K Williams. The writing in this last episode was great. The pace picked up significantly.
The speech Margaret gave when she spoke to those political goons opened us up to the world inside that brain of hers. It was a dramatic reveal on every level into his character. Women so often can’t let on how smart they really are in the company of men especially in much of the world at that time. They had no power and had to be deeply submissive to survive. Sort of like women in Hollywood now. Anyway it was a brilliant scene with truly excellent writing and so well played by that actress. I hope they don’t screw her up and turn into a whore like Lucy who is beyond irritating.
Between Chalky’s speech and Margaret’s scene this episode gave some real screen time to what it is to be oppressed. I am digging that.
I don’t know man. I thought this last episode was absolutely brilliant with that speech that Michael K Williams gave. The writing in this last episode was great. The pace picked up significantly.
WHAT ABOUT SHOWTIME’S NEW SERIES “LOOK” …HOW WERE IT’S NUMBERS SUNDAY NIGHT??
I LOVE BOARDWALK. The last two episodes were off the charts friggin fantastic. Everyone knows the show is replayed on HBO 24/7 so there is no need to watch on Sunday nights. It is all anyone is talking about at work. Did this count DVR ratings? What about football? Doesn’t that run during the show as well?
Boardwalk is the most ambitious show on television. It has set the bar as high as it can go. I love how cinematic and far reaching the story telling is. May it run for years. hank you HBO. I am hooked.
Last weeks Boardwalk Empire and this weeks were superb. I watched both on my DVR… twice. What are the ratings on multiple dvr viewings?
The characters, the dialogue, the production design are out of this world. I think the writers have built a richly layered and textured universe we aren’t used to experiencing. It is wholly original. The whole first year seems structured like a movie. Act One ended at the end of Episode three when Jimmy left on the train for Chicago.
Act two opens (episode four) with Jimmy in his new life with Capone and Nucky dealing with the politics of New Jersey. I think the show is deliberately structured in this way. Whatever– I appreciate the originality of the ride.
It is a far cry from Law and Order. Or CSI.
Boardwalk Empire shows it can pick up the pace. Michael Shannon gave a crazy bad ass performance in last weeks episode. The torture scene in dirty Yiddish was sick and funny and shocking. This week was the best with Nucky and Margaret. I am enjoying how their relationship is getting teased out. Gillian and Lucky have real chemistry too. Both a so talented. I love how the show is slowly building to a ride to who knows where.
It is not clear to me if these ratings were for the 24hr cycle or just the one Sunday night airing. I subscribe to HBO and use HBO on Demand to watch my shows. Last weeks episode was watched three different times at my house.
For a few weeks now Boardwalk Empire has been building up and trying to find its footing. However, I think people might eventually look back at the episode Anastasia as the episode where Boardwalk Empire became a great show.
Yes, Tim I completely agree. Margaret’s scene with Senator Edge was the best writing in the whole series. Enough with the gangster bull. It was written by Lawrence Konner and Margaret Nagle and directed by Jeremy Podewsa.
Boardwalk Empire’s last two episodes were incredible. The BF and I watched them back to back on our DVR. I hope thse numbers count for something other than relying soley on data from people glued to their television sets on Sunday nights.
They were amazing- so good- and the characters are developing nicely- I’m loving Jimmy in Chicago with Al and Lucky in Atlantic City with his new lady friend.
Very well done- and Nucky helms it all.
Please keep this show going. I love it.
“Boardwalk Empire” is not very good. Just like “Treme” both have bloated cast and too many stories and nobody to care about.
Stan, Margaret is easily a great strong character that we the audience root for. Did you see her scene with Senator Edge where she told him what she thought of the womens right to vote? That scene had great writing.
There is no comparison with the second two episodes against the first two. Terrence Winter is talented but the first two episodes dragged horribly. I realize he was setting many characters and plot lines up. My only complaint is that there was next to no restraint in the violence and the nudity was gratuitous.
I love the show and think the female characters got a chance to shine in the last two which gave the show a real lift.
Nagle wrote three> I felt the violence of the torture scene as good as it gets. Konner and Nagle wrote four both of which were funny and moving and the violence worked. This last episode of four was a culmination of a super wild ride. It was far more satisfying because now we know these characters.
It takes a while to get this show going but it is happening. Everyone needs to chill.
I’m currently watching both Dexter and Boardwalk Empire and enjoying both of them.
There’s only one thing I don’t like about Boardwalk, and that’s the modern music used in the opening credits. It just doesn’t fit the period setting for the show. Anything else: Roaring 20′s jazz, Dixieland, ragtime, the blues… but the current choice of music is terrible.
Otherwise, great show.
( And don’t think that music doesn’t count. You wouldn’t believe how many people I’ve heard say that they can’t wait to hear the Dexter theme that opens that show…)
Boardwalk is stunning TV. I just watched epsiode 4 on my DVR and all I can say is that I am blown away. Great writing by Naegle and Konner. The whole Nucky surprise party was hilarious and scary. Kelly McDonald finally steps forward into this part in a HUGE way. When she and Nucky danced it was transportive.
It’s like watching a novel come to life. The whole rhythm of the show is original. I can feel that the different pieces will add up to great effect.
Shout out to Omar as Chalky White for some fine work. What a cast this show has.
You have to think all the praise for Boardwalk is suspect, perhaps even HBO employees. The fact is the show is so forced and contrived week to week that it is no wonder ratings are down. It is just not that good and almost everybody is either miscast or forcing their performance. Without blind faith the show is almost unwatchable.
They need to change the leading role to an actor that is more believable. Buscemi is great at assisting roles, but not leading roles (especially of this caliber). His best roles were in Adam Sandler comedy films. That is his best Niche, not a 1920s Mobster.
I love Boardwalk empire but it is a show with a lot going on, so I think some people may have a problem with that.
As for Dexter- BEST DAMN SHOW EVER! I love that freaking show to death. Micheal C. Hall is such a great actor, maybe a little too good. Watching him play a serial killer so well makes me wonder what he’s like when he’s mad in real life ( and no, I’m not asking if he’s homicidal.