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RATINGS RAT RACE: TNT’s ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ Continues To Impress, Jennifer Love Hewitt Movie Does Solid Business For Lifetime

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 20, 2010 @ 2:24pm PDTTags: Angie Harmon, Cable TV, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lifetime Ratings, Ratings, Rizzoli & Isles, Sasha Alexander, The Client List, The Closer, TNT Ratings, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

In its second airing last night, TNT’s new drama series Rizzoli & Isles drew a big 7.3 million viewers, dropping only 4% from its record-setting debut last week. What’s more, the crime procedural starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander built on its Closer lead-in in total viewers (7.0 million). Last week, Rizzoli averaged 7.6 million viewers to Closer‘s 7.7 million. Just like last week, Rizzoli outperformed Closer in all key demos, including adults 18-49, in which the new series averaged 2.0 million viewers least night. Meanwhile, Closer continues to track higher than last season, with Episode 2 up 8% vs. last year.

Over at Lifetime, the original movie The Client List starring Jennifer Love Hewitt as a mom-turned-prostitute averaged 3.9 million in its premiere last night, 1.9 million of them in the 18-49 demographic, to rank as the second most-watched cable movie this year.

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RATINGS RAT RACE UPDATE: Big Debut For ‘Rizzoli & Isles’, ‘Closer’ Returns Strong

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 13, 2010 @ 11:30am PDTTags: Angie Harmon, Kyra Sedgwick, Ratings, Rizzoli & Isles, Sasha Alexander, The Closer, TNT Ratings, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE 11:30AM: TNT’s new original series Rizzoli & Isles drew some 7.6 million viewers for its premiere last night to rank as the most watched ad-supported cable series launch of all time with commercials. (Overall, it is close second to the commercial-free 2008 debut of the now-defunct TNT legal drama Raising … Read More »

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