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Solid Start For Showtime’s Sunday Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 10, 2011 @ 12:37pm PSTTags: Cable TV Ratings, Californication, Dexter, Episodes, Showtime Ratings, The L Word, The Tudors, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

Showtime’s series were off to a good start last night. Leading the way was new racy drama Shameless, a remake of the acclaimed British series, which drew 982,000 at 10 PM (1.3 million overall for the 2 runs) to rank as the most watched Showtime drama series premiere in 7 years, since  Dead Like Me (1.11 million). It topped the debuts of The L Word (2004) – 936,000; The Tudors (2007) – 869,000; Dexter (2006) – 603,000.

Californication (848,000) at 9 PM delivered the dark comedy series’ best series premiere, topping the Season 3 premiere’s 821,000 which had the benefit of a Dexter lead-in. For the two airings combined, Californication averaged 1.12 million viewers.

At 9:30 PM, the showbiz-centric new comedy series starring Matt LeBlanc Episodes garnered 768,000 viewers (902,000 total), retaining 91% of its Californication audience. The premiere numbers are expected to get a boost from the pay cable network’s free cable and satellite previews this past weekend. The above numbers only factor in subscribers.

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‘Dexter’ Finale Ratings On Par With Last Year

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 13, 2010 @ 11:47am PSTTags: Cable Ratings, Dexter, Dexter Finale, Dexter Ratings, Showtime Dexter, Showtime Ratings, TV
Nellie Andreeva

Facing the monster football game on NBC, the finale of Dexter on Showtime drew 2.50 million viewers for the 9 PM telecast. That was down a fraction from last season’s finale (2.57 million), which  at the time became the most-watched … Read More »

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CABLE RATINGS: HUB OK In Debut, ‘Dexter’ Up & ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Down

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 12, 2010 @ 3:28pm PDTTags: Boardwalk Empire, Bored to Death, Cable TV Ratings, Dexter, Eastbound & Down, Hasbro/Discovery Kids Channel, Showtime Ratings, The Hub
Nellie Andreeva

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 … Read More »

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