According to The Hollywood Reporter:
HBO announced the renewal of its entire summer original programming lineup, ordering another round of freshman comedy “Hung,” veteran comedy “Entourage” and hit vampire drama “True Blood.”
With ratings numbers like these for last week’s episode, “Hard-Hearted Hannah” is there any doubt that it would be renewed?:
True Blood (9:03pm, 50 minutes)
– 4.0 million viewers
– 2.4/4 HH
– 2.0/6 A18-49?
At a wild guess, HBO was waiting for a decision on “Hung” in order to decide if they whole line up could be announced at once.
According to THR:
“True Blood” has averaged 3.8 million viewers (11.2 when you add repeats, DVR and On Demand viewing), “Hung” has averaged 3.1 million (10.2 million cume) and “Entourage” brings in about 3.0 million (7.4 million cume).
But you can’t really ‘average’ a series whose numbers are climbing weekly. Oddly, those numbers would have shot True Blood into the top 20 cable shows nestling in between ‘The Food Network Star 5″ and one of the million “Spongebob”s except they only list the ‘advertising supported shows’
Top 20 advertiser supported cable network television shows for the week ending July 26, 2009:
Rank Programs Net Day Viewers (Live+SD) (000s) 1 BURN NOTICE USA Thu 6,803 2 THE CLOSER TNT Mon 6,601 3 NASCAR SPRINT CUP ESPN Sun 6,487 4 ROYAL PAINS USA Thu 6,205 5 WWE ENTERTAINMENT USA Mon 5,275 6 WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE DSNY Fri 5,047 7 WWE ENTERTAINMENT USA Mon 5,036 8 NCIS USA Mon 4,871 9 NATIONWIDE POST RACE ESPN Sun 4,869 10 HANNAH MONTANA DSNY Sun 4,797 11 LAW & ORDER: CI (ORIG) USA Sun 4,633 12 LAW & ORDER: SVU USA Sun 4,172 13 IN PLAIN SIGHT USA Sun 4,163 14 SPONGEBOB NICK Mon 4,158 15 HANNAH MONTANA DSNY Tue 4,083 16 SPONGEBOB NICK Tue 4,056 17 SPONGEBOB NICK Mon 4,018 18 FOOD NETWORK STAR 5 FOOD Sun 4,008 19 SPONGEBOB NICK Mon 3,834 20 SONNY WITH A CHANCE DSNY Sun 3,805 –
Nielsen Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
Congratulations to Alan and all the hard working, talented and wonderful cast and crew (and behind the scenes folks) who make True Blood the best show on TV! [Editor’s Note: Not that I’m prejudiced or anything…] Congratulations to HBO for a winning Sunday lineup. But most of all, YAAAY FOR US, THE FANS! We get another year of incredible TV.
Sources: THR and TV by the Numbers
(Photo credit: HBO)
Mckell Thompson
i love true blood plx hurry up with the next season i’d very much like to know who kidnap bill.