SAMCRO fans, grab your cut and let your bike roar in the streets to celebrate the extremely good ratings the premiere of Sons of Anarchy received yesterday.Last night at 10pm on FX, nothing less than 4.94 million viewers watched the 90-minute premiere (59 minutes without the commercials) from 10pm to 11:30pm ! This is simply the best ratings of the show. Also, another record was broken since 2.4% of people in the 18-49 demographic were watching SoA (only NBC with America's Got Talent did better with 3.1% on the key demo).
Including the 11:30pm and 01:00am reruns, an impressive total of 7.25 million viewers (4.76 million of them in the 18-49 demo) watched the premiere on FX last night ! And including the +7 days viewings, FX is projecting that episode 4.01 of Sons of Anarchy will be the most watched episode ever of one of their original series ! FYI, seasons 2 and 3 of Nip/Tuck currently hold the best ratings of any FX series, with episode 2.16 (5.2 million), episode 3.01 (5.3 million) and episode 3.14/3.15 (5.7 million viewers).
To compare with last night's outstanding ratings (I'm sure the episode deserves it), I gathered the ratings of all previous 39 episodes of Sons of Anarchy (I couldn't find the ones for episode 1.04 though). Here they are :
Tuesdays at 10 on FX :
Episode 1.01 (September 3rd, 2008) : 2.53 million viewers.
Episode 1.02 (September 10th, 2008) : 2.20 million viewers.
Episode 1.03 (September 17th, 2008) : 2.10 million viewers.
Episode 1.04 (September 24th, 2008) : unknown.
Episode 1.05 (October 1st, 2008) : 2.19 million viewers.
Episode 1.06 (October 8th, 2008) : 2.09 million viewers.
Episode 1.07 (October 15th, 2008) : 1.87 million viewers.
Episode 1.08 (October 22th, 2008) : 2.14 million viewers.
Episode 1.09 (October 29th, 2008) : 2.06 million viewers.
Episode 1.10 (November 5th, 2008) : 2.15 million viewers.
Episode 1.11 (November 12th, 2008) : 2.22 million viewers.
Episode 1.12 (November 19th, 2008) : 2.46 million viewers.
Episode 1.13 (November 25th, 2008) : 2.48 million viewers.
Episode 2.01 (September 8th, 2009) : 4.30 million viewers.
Episode 2.02 (September 15th, 2009) : 3.75 million viewers.
Episode 2.03 (September 22th, 2009) : 3.50 million viewers.
Episode 2.04 (September 29th, 2009) : 3.76 million viewers.
Episode 2.05 (October 6th, 2009) : 3.66 million viewers.
Episode 2.06 (October 13th, 2009) : 3.31 million viewers.
Episode 2.07 (October 20th, 2009) : 3.70 million viewers.
Episode 2.08 (October 27th, 2009) : 3.39 million viewers.
Episode 2.09 (November 3rd, 2009) : 3.52 million viewers.
Episode 2.10 (November 10th, 2009) : 3.38 million viewers.
Episode 2.11 (November 17th, 2009) : 3.48 million viewers.
Episode 2.12 (November 24th, 2009) : 3.44 million viewers.
Episode 2.13 (December 1st, 2009) : 4.33 million viewers.
Episode 3.01 (September 7th, 2010) : 4.14 million viewers / 2.1% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.02 (September 14th, 2010) : 3.37 million viewers / 1.8% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.03 (September 21th, 2010) : 3.48 million viewers / 1.8% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.04 (September 28th, 2010) : 2.98 million viewers / 1.6% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.05 (October 5th, 2010) : 3.12 million viewers / 1.6% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.06 (October 12th, 2010) : 2.85 million viewers / 1.6% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.07 (October 19th, 2010) : 2.60 million viewers / 1.3% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.08 (October 26th, 2010) : 2.67 million viewers / 1.4% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.09 (November 2nd, 2010) : 3.35 million viewers / 1.7% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.10 (November 9th, 2010) : 3.18 million viewers / 1.6% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.11 (November 16th, 2010) : 3.40 million viewers / 1.7% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.12 (November 23th, 2010) : 3.27 million viewers / 1.7% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 3.13 (November 30th, 2010) : 3.60 million viewers / 1.8% of the 18-49 demo.
Episode 4.01 (September 6th, 2011) : 4.94 million viewers / 2.4% of the 18-49 demo.
Average season 1 : 2.21 million viewers.
Average season 2 : 3.65 million viewers.
Average season 3 : 3.23 million viewers.
The best basic cable channel (imo) is busy this week : after the premiere of their one true hit last night (Justified and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, although rather successful, are nowhere near the Sons), the 93rd and final episode of Rescue Me airs in a few hours and the season finale of both Wilfred & Louie will air tomorrow night (both these outstanding comedies are renewed).
Awesome news!! :DD
ReplyDeleteOn a side note, can we have SoA badges? :P
This is great news. Loved the episode and glad so many people tuned in to see it.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me happy.
ReplyDeleteI read on his blog that Kurt Sutter is planning on doing 3 more seasons. With huge ratings like this, I'm sure FX wouldn't mind at least fifth season, and since this channel sometimes renew its shows for multiple seasons at a time (Damages seasons 2 and 3, Sunny seasons 8 and 9), a two-season renewal can definitely happen on FX, it would be nice to know, and also the writers will be able to plan things nicely.
But anyway, renewal for 2 seaosns or not, there's absolutely nothing to worry about for the Sons' future, the show is still one of the biggest hit on the 18-49 demo on basic cable. Only The Walking Dead is doing better, actually, and there's True Blood on HBO, too. All the TNT and USA Network shows are behind Sons of Anarchy on the 18-49 demo, that's quite impressive.
I watched season 3 last week, all 13 episodes in a row on 4 days, and whao, that was great. I think I'm going to wait November 29 to start watching season 4. It'll be tough, but it'll be worth it. Having stopped watching after 6 episodes in Autumn 2010, I never found time to fully get into it ever since, although I'm a huge fan. Sons of Anarchy is the first show I got into in its first season, with Fringe and True Blood, in September 2008 ; all three are still here and they're still wonderful - although SoA is the only one I was truly very enthusiastic about from the get go.
I love watching this series that way too. I tend to let a few episodes accrue and then do a mini-marathon... like 2 or 3 times a season.
ReplyDeleteYeah, SoA had me hooked from the Pilot and I didn't really expect to like it because I have no real interest in the MC culture. So glad I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to SOA i knew a lot of ppl that were tuning in
ReplyDeleteThat's great news and that episode was great as well, the club didn't waste any time jumping back into business!
ReplyDeleteare u going to be doing a ratings recap for other series too i love this and am glad that sons of anarchy scored its biggest premiere ever the question remins though how much will it drop in episode 2 the pattern ive noticed with FX ratings is they do better in premieres then the remainder of the season and typically drop 20-30% after the premiere FX series always drop big episode 2 so with new series i never let a premieres ratings fool me but obviously with Sons of Anarchy im not worried the question remains will it fall lower then last seasons 2nd episode or will it drop lighter?
ReplyDeletegreat news, thanks :D
ReplyDeletegreat! thanks!
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