James Hibberd reports that HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" finale / "Seinfeld" finale redux was the most-viewed "Curb" finale in more than five years with around 2 million viewers for the combined two telecasts on Sunday night. That is 24% higher than last season's finale according to Hibberd.
We expect to see the results for just the initial airing hopefully sometime later today.
How can you do 24% better than zero? There was NO Curb season last year! ;p
I’ve been curious about this since I love Seinfeld, my favorite show all-time, but I still haven’t made the leap to watch it. I guess I’m afraid it’ll be horrible (even as a tongue-in-cheek thing) and I don’t want my view of Seinfeld ruined.
Brendan since you went all Billy “Nothing From Nothing Leaves Nothing” Preston on me, I changed it to “season”.
The final two episodes were very funny and rewarding to longtime Seinfeld viewers. The whole Curb setting took Seinfeld away from being a mainstream, mass audience thing and back to more of an acquired taste for its most passionate fans. It also aired against so much competition…we DVR’d it and watched later. Even if this had been on NBC, I don’t think the ratings would have been that big.
A 24% increase isn’t exactly an earth-shattering ratings boost. One would think a Seinfeld reunion would lead to 500% ratings increase for such a small show, but I guess not a lot of people even knew about it.
Sloan, To me 24% seems quite an increase. Seinfeld fans who have HBO are generally watching “Curb” anyway.