Sorry for being a bit tardy in posting this. We'll need to wait until Tuesday to see the numbers out to 3 decimal places to figure out who won our contest. Royal Pains wrapped up a great first season with 5.9 million viewers.
via USA Network press release:
Royal Pains ENDS RUN WITH RECORD BREAKING SEASON
After last night's season one finale, USA's new hit series Royal Pains is now the network's most-watched first season of an original series ever, beating prior record-holder THE 4400, with the season averaging 3.3 million P25-54, 2.9 million P18-49 and 7 million total viewers.
The season one finale of Royal Pains brought in 2.9 million P25-54 and 2.3 million P18-49, earning a 4.42 household rating with 5.9 million total viewers (Live+Same). Compared to the prior week, this episode was up +14% in P25-54, +4% in P18-49, +11% in households and + 10% in total viewers.
Royal Pains also outperformed a new episode of "Project Runway" on Lifetime by +41% in P25-54, +10% in P18-49 and 69% in total viewers.
SOURCE: NIELSEN FAST NATIONALS, 8/27/09
I love that little dig at Project Runway…of all the first run shows on last ngiht, they chose Project Runway…yea there’s no love lost lol
its nice to see shows do so well reatily tv stinks Royal Pains is great show
Burn Notice helped start the show, but I’m glad its able to hold so well on its own.
Burn Notice is good to and i am glad Royal Pains is holding is own to
I wonder if USA will eventually use Royal Pains as to launch another night of shows and as a lead in. I don’t think it will happen next season but it’s a possibility.
As a rough guess using Google calcuator and the figures provided by USA, I’m guessing Project Runway got 4.07m in total viewers but I’m not sure on the demo.
oh ya i’m in the running for the win! 5.951! cmonnnnn 5.951!
its held steady on its own but i think it needs to thank burn notice fofr helping lauching it. I dont think ot would of one that many if it dint have the lead in of burn notice to start with
hope it is ok to post this link .. I know you guys like burn notice .. and I think Garret Dillahunt is awesome in everthing I have seen him in … cant wait to see what they have in store for him on burn notice
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/08/28/garret-dillahunt-heats-up-burn-notice/
also apologize if this has already been brought up.
I know between each new season is a ccouple months, but I swore they said Royal Pains will be back next summer. I hope not so long. I think it’s the short seasons and long breaks that lead to Psyches dip in ratings.
@tj Royal Pains didn’t get the usual 16 episode order that Burn Notice or Psych gets so no split season this time. The second season order is for 16 episodes so I’d expect them to split the seasons up, especially if it stays paired with Burn Notice.
@Jon I’d expect them to eventually spin Royal Pains to its own night but it won’t happen any earlier than the third season, I’d imagine. First they’d need to find a companion show for it. Though it seems more likely that Burn Notice has a better pairing with new show Covert Affairs (if it makes it to series).
These days it’s pretty typical for first year series to only get 12-13 episodes on USA. While it’s true Psych got a 15 episode order for its first season in 2006, both Burn Notice and In Plain Sight only had 12 episodes in their first seasons.
Royal Pains did get a 16 episode 2nd season and I fully anticipate USA will follow the same patten as Burn Notice and air 9-10 episodes next summer and the rest in 2011.
what’s all the hate for project runway? It’s easily the best reality show on television. Top Chef is up there too.
Bravo is the only channel that makes good reality shows cuz that’s what they specialize in
Any truth to the rumor Evan has been written out of Season Two? I heard he will be replaced by a robot with a sense of decorum.
Travis over at pifeedback posted these numbers:
Royal Pains
- 5.88 million viewers
- 3.8/7 HH
- 1.7/5 A18-49
http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/63310451/m/373100732/p/5
Did USA counted the most current live+7 ratings into the average?
^ Yes,I think they did it for the season average, because, as you can see on the weekly ratings for this show reported on this site,it has never reached 7M viewers in its first airing.
Let’s say that as always, it was a good PR spin.
Hey there, no doubt that it ranked number one.. It has a terrific episodes and they totally knew how to get talents.. They are not popular but their personalities match with each other..