PBS had to dust off its forms and sharpen the quill pens it uses to announce big ratings news, because DOWNTON ABBEY came back strong in its Season 2 debut.
The network announced that Downton's premiere was watched by 4.2 million viewers. Apart from doubling PBS's usual primetime average--which is no surprise--it was up 18% from the Season 1 average. (That doesn't count reruns, DVR viewing or online streams.) As a basis for comparison, that's a big enough number to put it in the broadcast network Top 15 for the week among all viewers (PBS didn't report the 18-49 numbers, and one assumes the show skewed on the old side.) That's more viewers than Desperate Housewives and Hawaii 5-0 had last week, and not far below NCIS LA. If you consider PBS a niche network more akin to cable, it crushes the 1 million or so viewers Showtime had for its launches of Shameless and House of Lies that same night.
So, jolly good show! In all senses of the phrase.
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