The Big C scored Showtime's best original series premiere in 8 years with 1.154 million in its first telecast and 1.583 million counting its encore. Weeds kicked off its season with 1.26 million and a total of 1.9 million with its encore, the series' best-night ever in viewers.
via press release:
"The Big C" DELIVERS SHOWTIME'S HIGHEST RATED ORIGINAL SERIES PREMIERE IN 8 YEARS
Season Six of "WEEDS" Returns With Its Highest Rated Night Ever
The Big C PREMIERE – 1.154 million viewers at 10:30 p.m.
- The Big C delivered SHOWTIME's largest audience in 8 years for an original series debut (Previously: Odyssey 5 on 6/21/02 with 1.155MM)
- At 11:30 p.m.: The Big C delivered an additional 429,000. The total night 1.583 million viewers
- The premiere episode was made available for online sampling two weeks ago. To-date, the premiere has garnered record views with over 1.6 million online views.
WEEDS SEASON SIX PREMIERE – 1.262 million viewers at 10 p.m.
- With a total of 1.9 Million viewers last night, the season six premiere of WEEDS delivered the series' Best Night Ever in viewers
- WEEDS delivered 1.262 million at 10 p.m. (Up 4 percent from the season 5 premiere, 1.217MM)
- At 11:00 p.m. WEEDS added an additional 629,000 viewers.
