Sunday Cable Ratings: NASCAR Wins Night, 'Breaking Bad', 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians', 'Leverage', 'Hell on Wheels', 'Married to Jonas', & More

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1. RyanCanada

   Posted September 5, 2012 at 11:46 AM

   how is Web Therapy still on the air?

2. UKTVFan

   Posted September 5, 2012 at 11:49 AM

   Wow, 1.555 million for Doctor Who is spectacular! The companies like Fios that added BBCA HD in time for Copper must have helped Doctor Who (I have Fios, and for the first time, I watched last Saturday’s Doctor Who in HD on BBCA, while in the past I would “find” the HD version online soon after the UK broadcast).

   And Copper actually went up a little (in viewers), despite it being Labor Day weekend:

   Week 1 – 1.107 million/0.36 demo
   Week 2 – 0.874 million/0.27 demo
   Week 3 – 0.901 million/0.27 demo

   I’m sure BBCA is writing a press release as we speak for Doctor Who, as that is now the highest-rated single broadcast of any program in the channel’s history (note that the 1.8 million Copper was the sum of the premiere and three immediate repeats).

3. tv#1

   Posted September 5, 2012 at 11:53 AM

   I hope that Hell on Wheels will be able to at least maintain its current ratings without having Breaking Bad as its lead out. It’s a great show; more people should be watching.

4. Mary

   Posted September 5, 2012 at 11:53 AM

   I’m noticing that Showtime shows don’t do very well. I wonder what kinds of numbers Homeland will get?

5. CCV

   Posted September 5, 2012 at 2:35 PM

   Homeland will get over 2 million. It had a relatively monster season last year, both in terms of critical success and in the “Showtime” ratings department. It’s going to supplant Dexter (if it already hasn’t…?) as Showtime’s most watched show, and it’s certainly Showtime’s best (with Dexter well past its prime and The Borgias a pretty damn good but not great show). The ad campaign and word-of-mouth are going to lead Homeland to a 2+ mil premiere–the first episode last year got about 1 mil, and the number consistently went up all the way through the finale. Homeland’s going to be huge this year.

   @tv#1…
   Hell On Wheels has been pretty consistent so far this season, which is surprising me a little. It’s still not a great show, nowhere near MM and BB, and it’ll never be Deadwood–no matter how much it wants to be–but this season is much, much stronger than the first so far. I was a little reluctant to tell my friends I watched it last season, simply because large portions of it were so competently mediocre. I don’t feel that way anymore. If the numbers maintain, it will be fine. Averaging around 2.5 mil will put it on par with AMC’s premiere shows, and will definitely warrant a third season renewal.

6. OWN Fan

   Posted September 5, 2012 at 2:36 PM

   Hey @Nick. What do you think on a business level now that ALOT of small cable channels are looking to fridays + saturdays to build there cable channels. Because I’ve seen that’s were Animal Planet, CMT, and OWN have gotten alot of their steadily ratings from. Why do you think that is?

7. joss

   Posted September 5, 2012 at 4:43 PM

   You dont want to wait til next year for last episodes of Breaking Bad ?
   Tell AMC

   info@amctv.com
   AMC Viewer Services
   11 Penn Plaza, 15th Floor
   New York, NY 10001
   646-273-7105

8. Dan

   Posted September 5, 2012 at 9:27 PM

   “You dont want to wait til next year for last episodes of Breaking Bad ?
   Tell AMC”

   Don’t waste your time people. I don’t even think they’ve filmed the final 8, and even if they have, AMC isn’t going to completely alter their schedule.

9. Greg

   Posted September 5, 2012 at 9:56 PM

   The final episodes have not been shot yet. Consider this 16-episode season as two 8-episode seasons. That’s what I’m doing.

   I’m not confident about a Hell on Wheels renewal. When fall season starts, the show’s gonna get crushed.

10. mArS

    Posted September 6, 2012 at 9:31 AM

    One Car Too Far (DISC) ?

11. Yep

    Posted September 9, 2012 at 2:45 PM

    Hell on Wheels story lines are still meandering all over the place. The individual plots aren’t overlapping at all hardly – I mean, how am I supposed to get involved with a character when they’re on screen for what? 30-40 seconds? And then it moves on to the next character’s story – another 40 seconds. It’s like reading 2-3 pages of every chapter of a book and expecting to stay interested. And FFS, where is Rev Cole going? Noonan is one of the two actors (other is Heyerdahl, of course) in HoW that are keeping me watching. Mount’s performance wasn’t bad in Ep 201, but now it’s just…eh.

    I think I’m done with this series now. If it makes it another couple seasons maybe I’ll download or something. Otherwise…good riddance.

    Besides, who needs to watch a crappy civil war period drama when there’s a perfectly good (and getting better) substitute – why, ‘ello Coppuh!