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Lifetime’s new Jennifer Love Hewitt drama series Client List got off to a solid start last night with 2.8 million viewers tuning in for the premiere. That is Lifetime’s most watched series debut since the 2009 premiere of Drop Dead Diva, which also averaged 2.8 million viewers, and the second largest premiere viewership in the last 5 years, only behind the 2007 launch of Lifetime’s flagship drama Army Wives. The Client List did far better than the premieres of Lifetime’s two most recent drama series, The Protector (1.9 million) and Against The Wall (1.8 million). Considering The Client List opened on Easter night with lower HUT levels and strong cable competition, its delivery was encouraging for Lifetime, which needs another scripted hit, and a testament to the drawing power of Hewitt in lingerie.
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I’m happy for Hewitt, I think she’s great. These are great numbers for the “Man Hater” network.
Hogans Heroes!
I have always enjoyed watching the original JLo. Don’t know why she’s not a bigger star but those are the breaks.
She’s like Eliza Dushku in that she’s got a limited range of characters that she can play convincingly.
I wonder how this one will hold up. A commercial for the show has been playing in movie theaters and has elicited laughs where the producers seemed to be going for seriousness. Did people check it out because they’re curious about just how bad it would be?
It’s a dramedy, dude. Supposed to get laughs. I thought it was a blast.
Too bad the show is gar-BAGE. Good and terrible, JLH’s body be damned.
Good for her.
Looks like Lifetime is marketing to men now, too.
JLW looks sexy as hell.
I have nothing against JLH and have enjoyed her work in the past, but I am involved in an organization of Licensed Massage Therapists that are trying to get this show off the air. We spend years training and updating our training constantly to provide a valuable component of someone’s overall healthcare. Our profession cannot be viable while shows try to portray a legitimate massage therapist having to give happy endings just to survive in the business — like The Client List does. Please help support us by not supporting this show. Thank you!
I agree. I am also a serious massage therapist and it is very dis-heartening to see a tv show portray a legitimate health benefit as a sex act!!,
Massage therapists train long and hard and should be part of the respected health community. T.v. shows like the client list take us back ten years and also give the public the wrong idea of what a massage is!!
I for one will not be watching this show!!
This disgusts me!! Do u know how many girls are actually forced into the line of work?! Most of them. We should be bringing a voice to trafficking, not glamorizing this!!!
That’s 1.4 million per.
Not bad, Jenny.
To:
Massage Therapists Against The Client List
and
Casey.
Get a grip, it’s a TV show. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. Oh and by the way your “careers” as massage therapist are not affected whether this show is on the air or not. Stop pointing the finger at someone or something else because your not successful.#stop being a victim.
It’s a sad day for all licensed massage therapists–especially female therapists!!
Massage therapists have to deal with what everybody else is watching, regardless of whether they themselves watch it. So we care about it if a major network is producing a series whose bulwark consists of an outdated stereotype that gives men the impression that they should EVEN BE CONSIDERING asking for a happy ending. (Nevermind some of the looks I get when I tell people I’m a massage therapist.) It’s degrading and obnoxious and the least people outside the profession can do is not perpetuate history’s misconceptions.
(And for your information, my business is very successful. I’m not objecting because I’m looking to avert blame—I’m blaming nobody for anything here—but because it does a disservice to massage therapists who regularly have to explain to people why it is not shameful to have a massage. It would be nice if current TV shows—especially those being shown on a network that (supposedly) promotes awareness of women’s issues—weren’t shamelessly reifying the misconceptions we are forced to address on a regular basis in our profession.)