
What goes up must come down. There is no series whose ratings have kept growing indefinitely, and even MTV’s mega hit Jersey Shore is not immune from that, posting its first season-to-season decline in its finale last night. The closer of the Jersey gang’s Italian adventure drew 6.6 million viewers, reversing the upward trend of 4.8 million for the Season 1 finale, 6.1 million for Season 2 and 7.6 million for Season 3. The finale was also down from the fourth-season premiere, which drew some 8.8 million viewers, the most ever for an MTV series debut. Jersey Shore‘s demo ratings are still very potent. Last night’s finale posted a 3.7 rating in adults 18-49, beating everything on broadcast TV besides CBS’ The Big Bang Theory and Fox’s coverage of the World Series.
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It’s football season. Brutality and big-breasted beer temporarily trumps idiocy for the lowbrow set.
It’s pretty evident why… This season was a bore.
Not to mention,
Making a giant marketing add for Italy, while they were holding an American hostage with their legal system and extorting millions from her family and her supporters in legal fees, was pretty fricken tastless too.
You may think I’m stretching it. But I’m not.
This season was boring, they need to do away with Vinny he adds nothing to the cast.
People still watch this rot?
How in the hell are people still watching this garbage? Can reality shows get any worse than they are now?
watching!
“Immuned from that?” Really? Whoever wrote this has been watching too much television. Pick up a book. Take a class. Up your game, theoretically you’re supposed to be a journalist.
oh gawd when will this show just go away? beware, whoever watches this crap, you DO get dumber and dumber when you watch it.
Basically here is what happened to this show. Every season it seems to get watered down more as the producers seem to be afraid to draw more unwanted criticism about its content. Compare the horrible Season 4 to Season 1 and you will see how its like night/day. Teens and college kids will watch it because whether you think so or not, this sort of party culture is pretty much how alot of the 18-25 crowd act nowadays. Take it from someone who just recently grew out of that age group. This last season was a complete snooze and the ratings are starting to show. theyre still incredibly high, but will continue to fall if they dont get back to what made them a funny train wreck to begin with
Love jersey shore! It needs to go on!
Bring em back to Seaside–that’s where the real fireworks are.