Tuesday, April 21, 2015

10 Ratings Blurbs: 4/21/15 Edition


This is basically an all-cable list this week. I'm trying to stay away from broadcast shows because the finales are coming up in a couple of weeks and there isn't much to say about those shows.

1. Love & Hip Hop Atlanta (3.545 million 1.9)- This is down from last season’s premiere but it is a good start. Even if the numbers go down from here, it will be nearly impossible for this show to not end the year as VH1’s highest rated show for the fourth straight year (because they don’t have any other shows that can or will come close to beating this one). To solidify my point, before this week, VH1’s highest rated show this year to date was Black Ink Crew with a season average of 1.9 million viewers. Every show after that doesn’t break the 300,000 viewer mark which shows how far ahead this show is from everything else on the network.

2. Real Housewives of Atlanta (2.979 million 1.3)- For any other show on Bravo, these would be really good finale ratings. For this show, it isn’t all that great and I’m just taking how the show started this season into consideration. It is an old show so you can’t expect records to be set at this point but it probably is a bit disappointing that this show struggled to get nearly 3 million viewers for the finale.

3. Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (1.965 million 0.8)- I’m fully aware a clip show will be airing tonight but I don’t care about clip shows. Those always have much lower rated episodes than the rest of the season so I’ll end my mention of this season by saying it deserves to get renewed, I can’t see how it won’t get renewed and the numbers didn’t really trend in a good or bad direction.

4. Justified (2.242 million 0.7)- This always felt like the forgotten FX drama. The show always seemed to skew older than the other scripted shows and that may be why it didn’t get as much attention as the other shows. FX got what they wanted out of this show and that was a successful show with a long run. It may not leave any lasting impressions on anyone other than fans but that’s ok.

5. Being Mary Jane (9pm: 1.296 million 0.6; Finale: 1.459 million 0.6)- What I see here is that people may not have been aware that this was a 2 hour finale. That being said, these finale numbers are way down from last season and they are down from the premiere. Obviously, BET hasn’t been overjoyed with these numbers either but that’s their problem because now all three of their scripted shows are pulling the same numbers and one of them (The Game) will be going into its final season when it returns.

6. Blood, Sweat and Heels (1.023 million 0.4)- These numbers are up a little bit from last week and they are still a huge concern for me. The retention from RHOA is pretty awful and in a few weeks, this show won’t have the glow of that show to depend on. I know Bravo has been messing with the schedule (shifting Watch What Happens Live to an earlier time on Sundays to basically create a makeshift RHOA aftershow) but that doesn’t ease my concern because the numbers are already hovering near the low end of the safe zone.

7. Bates Motel (1.693 million 0.7)- So the numbers have taken a bit of a dip since the premiere but they have been steady over the last few weeks. It is doing much better than their new freshman show The Returned and these aren’t terrible numbers. I think the show is marching towards earning a 4th season. The spring hasn’t been very kind to A&E so far. This is a bright spot for them.

8. Teen Mom OG (1.657 million 1.0)- MTV is probably thrilled that the numbers haven’t collapsed after the premiere. This is currently their highest rated show (which is why I suspect they resurrected it in the first place). Nothing has been going well for MTV for a while so it helps that there is still some interest in this show even if it will never see the type of numbers it saw at its peak ever again.

9. Love & Hip Hop Atlanta: The Afterparty Live (2.596 million 1.4)- I kinda just threw this in here only because it’s the first outing. I don’t like highlighting aftershows mostly because a lot of them don’t get great ratings. These numbers are good though the retention could probably be better. I suspect this may only be a test or a space filler until Hit the Floor is ready to return. By then VH1 can either retool this so they can have this airing nearly year-round with their other Love & Hip Hop shows or scrap it completely (like they did with the Mob Wives aftershow a couple years ago).

10. Walk of Shame Shuttle (146,000 0.1)- These numbers aren’t good and they haven’t been good all season. They have been better than Barely Famous but still not good enough to earn a renewal. VH1 has been and continues to try a lot of concepts on Wednesday and they should keep trying because settling for less than 200k viewers and a 0.1 demo is essentially admitting defeat. They would do better just airing movies or marathons of their Monday shows than accepting numbers this low for new episodes.

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