Friday night's Spartacus: Blood and Sand, its third episode averaged .858 million viewers and a .4 adults 18-49 rating in its initial airing on Starz.
Last week, the second episode of Spartacus: Blood and Sand averaged a .4 adults 18-49 rating and 0.773 million viewers on Starz Friday night. Like the first episode though, it was widely available online and On Demand (also through Encore) before the episode aired. This past Friday night's episode was not available prior to the telecast.
Update: Additional info via Starz:
Spartacus Episode 103 2/05 10PM telecast:
*Exceeded the first two episode premieres in HHs, P2+, and A18-49
*Grew total audience (P2+) 11% over Episode 102
*Increased A18-49 audience by 15% over Episode 102, and 45% over the series premiere
*Ranked #1 among HHs for all premium programs for 2/05, the third week in a row
| Demo | Ep. 103 Live + SD AA Projections (000s) | Ep. 102 Live + SD AA Projections (000s) | Ep. 101 Live + SD AA Projections (000s) | % Increase over Ep. 102 Fri 10PM | Ep. 103 Live + SD Coverage Area Rating | Ep. 102 Live + SD Coverage Area Rating | Ep. 101 Live + SD Coverage Area Rating |
| HH | 604 | 595 | 461 | 2% | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| P2+ | 858 | 773 | 659 | 11% | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| A18-49 | 535 | 465 | 369 | 15% | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| M18+ | 487 | 490 | 327 | -1% | 2.1 | 2.2 | 1.5 |
Starz found its hit series. The critical reviews for the show also went up with each new episode. I’ve yet to watch the 3rd episode!
1 million for next episode!
Is the title for this post a euphamism?
Looks like Starz has a found a hit series and it seems wise that Starz renewed it before the first season began.
How long before it starts beating Caprica?
Considering this is premium cable, think of Caprica already beat.
Indeed, its doing as well with adults 18-49 and its available in ~74 million fewer homes than Syfy
sigh
Starz has to be p*ssing with joy at this. They finally have a show to put them on the map. Plus, I’ve heard the next two episodes – 4&5- are pretty awesome.
I would hardly call 858,000 viewers “on the map.” Outside of those who already have Starz and folks interested in ratings, has anyone even heard of this show?
0.85m viewers is pretty good considering Crash got 0.092m and similar to what Showtime original programming gets with the exception of Dexter, Weeds and Nurse Jackie. I think the L Word was getting 0.4m when it started.
Doghouse Reilly, it’s all relative. The L Word first-runs were pulling in the same numbers at what Spartacus is getting, if not slightly less at this point, and that was on Showtime. L Word lasted 6 years. Also figure in foreign sales and old fashioned “buzz,” which is more for this show than any other by Starz. It’s not the 10 million of HBO’s Soprano’s but it’s enough to have people talking and viewer numbers consistently going up.
I actually ordered Starz just so that I could watch this show, assuming that I am not the only one, its a big sucess for them
Why are the ratings only one point behind the comma?
point = digit.
please restate your question with a specific example using numbers from the post above.
The ratings for Spartacus: Blood and Sand 1.03 were 0.4, why not 0.41 or 0.48?
“Friday night’s Spartacus: Blood and Sand, it’s third episode averaged .858 million viewers and a .4 adults 18-49 rating in its initial airing on Starz.”
Robert: “It’s” should be “its”.
Glad to see the ratings go up each episode. Especially since the first episode was horrible, however the series has slowly gotten better. Good for Starz, hopefully the series can do a lot better then Crash did.
U.N. Owen the number of minutes viewed by adults 18-49 divided by the duration of the show came in at less than 41/100ths of 1% of the adults 18-49 population thus not .48, with rounding it might go up to .41, but generally we only see tenths of ratings points, rather than 100ths, so we’d still typically only see a .4. I wound up seeing the actual number of 18-49 viewers though, and could do the calculations. It’s less than .41, and well less than .48.
I’m not saying it was .48, but Caprica also had a .4 rating and with only one digit after the comma there could be a difference of almost .1. I’m assuming the numbers get rounded to the nearest tenth, but with rating under 1.0 the difference between .36 and .44 is quite big.