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Ryan Murphy and Brad Falcuk’s new FX drama series American Horror Story launched with 3.2 million viewers and 2 million adults 18-49 at 10 PM last night. It matched the premiere demo rating of Murphy’s previous FX series, the hit Nip/Tuck, and was up 33% from the series debut of FX’s current flagship drama Sons of Anarchy (1.5 million). It is running behind the all-time FX champ — the series premiere of FX’s signature cop drama The Shield, which collared 3.2 million viewers in 18-49 — but that might change, according to FX president and general manager John Landgraf. “We’re really thrilled by the premiere ratings performance of American Horror Story,” he said. “We know that when the Live+7 ratings come in, that of the 13 drama series FX has premiered, AHS will rank at least No. 2 all-time in adults 18-49 behind The Shield, and there is a possibility that it could be our highest ever.” Landgraf also noted the spike in social media traffic triggered by the AHS premiere. For its premiere night, including two encores, AHS averaged 5 million viewers, 3.2 million of them in the adults 18-49 demo.
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Was expecting a little more. :/
Loved every minute of it. It had everything I hoped for. My new favorite show this year!!!!
Smart people don’t stay in haunted houses nor will they watch this show.
Agreed. I found it too predictable. I guess this is for kids.
Working in post on this show is an American Horror Story
I also loved it. Creepy, interesting, great cast.
I think what this show needs is even more masturbation in it and even more people with burnt faces watching people do it.
Is Conan O’Brian exec producing this?
The Masturbating Bear and Self-Pleasuring Panda should guest next week as evil spirits and kidnap Connie Britton and the daughter. Dylan McDermott should have to prove his masturbation mastery in order to rescue them.
AHS is easily the best hour-long comedy on cable.
God was that a mess. I love scary movies & TV, LOVE Connie Britton… maybe my expectations were too high. But what an epic disappointment.
it’s certainly trying very hard to be edgy, scary, complex. many of the scenes last night were derivative of the shining and various hitchcock flicks. music queues and sound effects were seemingly lifted right out of Insidious. Let’s see if it finds an identity…
The music was lifted from Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” in episode 1 and additional music from “Psycho” in episode 2.
can someone please explain what live +3 or live +7 is? I’m guessing I know but would like for it to be clarified. and how is it calculated? also through neilson?
Ryan Murphy has created his own personal genre of television that transcends issues of taste, quality, narrative coherence, even basic dramatic construction. Moment to moment, his stuff is more vivid and entertaining than 90% of what’s out there. But make no mistake, American Horror Story’s pilot was just plain BAD. It might be varied and wacky enough to hold our attention, and it might improve as it goes, but that pilot was egregiously slapdash and chaotic, with lots of “style”–what was up with those jumpy hairtrigger zooms?–but no real interest in character or emotional/dramatic continuity. A scene where the daughter is circumspect about getting bullied is immediately followed by a scene where she’s raging against her abuser, screaming for vengeance. Connie Britton walks into the kitchen from outside the house to join a scene with Dylan McDermott, and the show doesn’t bother to tell us where she’s come from…in fact, we have no idea how many days have passed since we last saw her character. It’s disheartening how little Murphy appears to value the opportunities he’s been given–that he has, admittedly, earned. He’s one of three or four creators who can do pretty much whatever he wants and what he does is…this. Dylan McDermott masturbating himself to tears, Frances Conroy as a masturbating succubus, Dennis O’Hare drooling through latex lips, Connie Britton getting violated by a leather-clad ghost gimp.
Like Nip/Tuck and Glee, once again this is totally over the top, with way too much PACKED into every second and little to no room to simply breathe… that said, it was FANTASTIC, there – I said it! I hate myself for loving it so much – and Jessica Lange??? GET OUT OF TOWN, she is perfection, total perfection! She could read the phone book for all I care. I’m hooked to the overstocked and badly needed TV thriller series.
Gee, maybe cause it had TOO much mad-ass, and no woman ass or even nip slips! A woman from the 1920′s showing off some thigh doesnt equal Murphy’s gay obsession with the male posterior!
I liked the show. We haven’t even gotten started yet. How is it for kids? You clearly didn’t watch the whole episode.
Right — because SMART people decongest believe in ghosts and haunted houses.
I thought it was legit. Creepy, w good character developments. Loved the 7-esque intro. Prob the best new show I’ve seen this fall. Def was getting Nip/Tuck mixed w The Shining & Rosemary’s Baby.
OH MY GOD, THE SHOW WAS UNBIELABLE, I SAT THERE FROZEN TO MY SOFA. LOVED IT. OH MY GOD……
Really enjoyed the show… Hope it keeps going like this… very fast paced and entertaining.
This show is terrible. It takes trying too hard to a new level. The senseless jump cuts were simply annoying and the pacing in general was so disruptive–it could pass for a low budget film school project. I will admit the show got better as it moved along, but was still a cheap knockoff of more successful visions that it wanted to be–Twin Peaks, The Shining and anything Kathy Bates has ever been in. The use of the gimp is shameless. However, the maid’s plot is pretty interesting, I will admit.
With all do respect to the posts already listed…did you watch this piece of shit??? it was complete crap…and I think that’s what Murphy, with his chip on his shoulder, actually intended it to be.alot of anger in that guy… He gave the audience and John Landgraff…the finger.All of you need to get over yourself and your desperation.
Was there something supernatural going on? I couldn’t tell from…
1) Black rubber suit guy who impregnates the wife
Creepy old maid appears as sexy young chanteuse to husband (the only cool thing, imho)
2) Next door neighbor is psycho lady with down’s syndrome daughter/seer
3) demon monster and demon witch lady in basement
4) murderer with half his face burned off
5) Psychotic teenager
6) Crazy ghost twins
7) Creepy old maid shows up, inexplicably gets hired on the spot even though they only have one teenage daughter and wife doesn’t have a job
Think they maybe front-loaded it a tad?
Do they realize truly scary horror is about a measured pace and what’s NOT shown as we slowly learn the dark secrets behind a dramatic situation?
I don’t think they do, considering they just grabbed a bunch of horror movie cliches and threw them in a pot.
And I’ve seen the next two episodes and it only gets worse.
You might want to look up “chanteuse” before you use it again.
Other than that, I’m with you 100%. The only one masturbating more than McDermott and the maid was the director.
But as cliched as his character was, I did like the wacko kid. He had a kind of young Malcolm McDowell vibe to him.
Loved it!
It didn’t average, it cumed. Big difference. And everyone knows that adding ratings is totally uncouth. FX is just showing how desperate they’ve become.
The AHS pilot had a lot of characters, plot points and back story to establish in one episode. Not only did Ryan Murphy(and crew) make the introduction to the Harmon’s an interesting and thrilling TV viewing experience, he made you want to continue on this journey and come back for more.
P.S…..Don’t make me kill you again!
Why did they need to establish ALL of those elements in the pilot? Are they selling action figures?
‘…he made you want to continue on this journey and come back for more…’
Want to bet?
A TV show that made me think? I’LL TAKE IT. It’s so rare these days. It really doesn’t hurt that AHS had some of that Aronofsky flair to it too. Yum.
I may love horror, but I’m not going to go on the bandwagon and love it, just because it was horror. The story was awful. The directing and editing was terrible. It was a terrible horror movie you’d see on the Sci Fi channel.