For comparative purposes, TV Land's best performance last week was repeats of Everybody Loves Raymond with many episodes in the 1.0 million - 1.2 million range. On average TV Land averaged around 800,000 viewers in primetime. Impressive numbers for the premiere...
Update: the 10:30pm encore drew an additional 2.4 million viewers.
TV LAND’S FIRST ORIGINAL SITCOM “Hot In Cleveland” SCORCHES IN THE RATINGS, MARKING HIGHEST RATED AND MOST WATCHED TELECAST EVER IN NETWORK HISTORY
Nearly 5 Million Total Viewers Tune In To The Series Premiere
Sitcom Posts 1.9 Rating Among Network’s Target Audience Of Adults 25-54
And 2.4 Rating Among Women 25-54
New York, New York, June 17, 2010 – TV Land’s critically-acclaimed first original sitcom “Hot In Cleveland,” got off to an extraordinary start for its premiere (Wednesday, June 16th at 10 p.m ET/PT), making network history as the highest rated and most watched telecast ever, according to Nielsen Fast National data. “Hot In Cleveland” broke network records and attracted nearly 5 million total viewers and gave the network stellar, significant triple digit gains across all demos for the night.
Starring Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White, “Hot In Cleveland” posted a 1.9 rating and 2.0 million viewers among the network’s target Adults 25-54 audience. TV Land averaged 4.75 million total viewers. Among Women 25-54, TV Land scored a 2.4/1.3 million. Among Adults 18-49, TV Land posted 1.5/1.6 million.
TVLand.com also experienced record-breaking traffic, attracting 287,000 unique visitors, making it the most-visited day in site history. There were 117,000 visitors alone to the “Hot In Cleveland” show pages, in addition to thousands of fans interacting with the show on Facebook.
Filmed in front of a live studio audience, “Hot In Cleveland” is executive produced by Emmy® Award-winner Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills Productions and is helmed by Emmy® Award-winning Suzanne Martin (“Frasier,” “Ellen”) serving as executive producer, show runner and writer.
“Hot In Cleveland” revolves around three fabulous best friends from LA – novelist Melanie Moretti (Bertinelli), eye-brow archer to the stars Joy Scroggs (Leeves) and former soap star Victoria Chase (Malick) – who find their lives changed forever when their plane, headed for Paris, makes an unexpected landing. When the friends discover that they are Hot In Cleveland, they decide to stay. Starting over, they rent a house that happens to come with a very feisty caretaker (White).
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I hope to see more of Betty White in future episodes!! She's the hottest one of them all!!!
GREAT start for Hot in Cleveland!
Tony Kornheiser, is that you? She went from just a guest spot in the pilot to being a series regular, so you'll get your wish..
Wow!
Good start to what is a very promising sitcom – I'll definitely be tuning in again!
Boy oh boy, that's insane! They must be throwing a party over at TV Land headquarters today. And is this release only referring to the 10:00 telecast because it aired again at 10:30 and 1 AM too. Regardless, this is enormous for them.
I thought it tried a little to hard for the first 10 minutes of the show but settled down into something I will watch again. Shocked at the numbers still. It definately has potential.
Great news.
Betty White is gold. I didn't care for the pilot nor did I find it funny, but I did loved Betty's parts. Hopefully the show improves greatly.
Go Betty White!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its a cute show.
I aint even in their target demo. Im 19. lol
If I'm reading this right, it looks like nationally to be around a 1.2 rating for Adults 18-49 (they're apparently using coverage ratings and TV Land is only in ~85% of the homes).
I thought the show was pretty funny!
I didn't see it, is it actually any good or just a case of Betty White being hottor than the sun these days?
Good for Betty and all the cast. It was a decent show. I can definitely see myself watching it again.
I thought it was very good – there are a handful of cliche sitcom lines and set-ups, but the cast works really well together. I'm especially enjoying Wendie Malick! You should check it out; it's a nice way to spend a half-hour!
Say what you will about Betty White — she deserves all the praise coming her way — but I tuned in to see Valerie B, a fellow 50-year-old whom I've enjoyed ever since she was Barbie Cooper!
It definitely had it's moments…when Joy (Jane Leeves) licked her arms the following morning because they tasted like the chili fries, I was cracking up! I'll tune in again…
It was a good show. The formula's a little tired, but it was watchable. I don't know if the show has got legs to go two seasons, though. I hope they find some support good actors to add to the flavor. I can't see it surviving without it.
Saw a billboard in Times Square for this show the other day. It has three of the four leading ladies on it. Betty White is missing.
It's a great show a breath of fresh air with all the reality crap out there, love Jane Leaves and Valerie Bertinelli It's rare that a critically-acclaimed is a hit and with fans. Hopefully they'll revive the sitcoms, haven't herd the words taped in front of a live studio audience in a long time. And it was a surprise seeing John Snyder.