The prognosis for Showtime’s The Big C is excellent. I’m hearing last night’s debut of Laura Linney’s cancer dramedy scored the cable net’s best premiere rating in eight years and its best half-hour opener in 12 years. The official Showtime press release is after the jump…
“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 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.
Even though I had already seen most of the scenes in various promos and trailers for the show, I enjoyed The Big C a lot and am really looking forward to this season. I’d rather see it on with Nurse Jackie and/or United States of Tara though. Weeds blows these days.
Great show, making fun of cancer always cracks me up:)
It doesn’t make fun of cancer. You must be mildly retarded.
News of the ratings for “Weeds” assuages my fears that this year will be the final season. A seventh season looks imminent, thank God. Take that, haters!
I really enjoyed this show. Will be watching everyweek.
Weeds really improved and The Big C has potential. Excited to see where both go.
The season opener of Weeds was tremendously better than the last two seasons put together. Things are looking up
Agree completely. I was thinking about skipping this whole season of weeds since the last two were so awful. I actually only watched it because the big c was on afterwards. Glad I did. It was quite good.
Weeds has been wearing on for several years, but I thought last night’s episode was great.
Happy for Gabby Sidibe (co-star in The Big C). Would love to see her have a good run on this show and stick around in the super-skinny celebrutal world. I like her.
Loved The Big C!!! Hilarious and touching all in 30 min?..can’t wait for more!
WEEDS is awesome!!!
Shane is the biggest freak–so excited for season 6!
Hi, off topic, can somebody tell me the song that is played during the Dexter promo? Thanks very much.
Lux Aeterna. I think it was from Requiem for a Dream.
It’s called “Dexter Main Title” by Rolfe Kent – check it out on I-Tunes.
Who’d thunk Terminal Cancer could be so damn fun?!
Another winner for Showtime. I thoroughly enjoyed the opening and have set the DVR to record weekly.
BRAVA……GREAT WRITING,ACTING…CAN’T WAIT FOR THE NEXT EPISODE !
Love weeds will always love that show… big c was stupid.. will not be watching
Bring back Dead Like Me and see the ratings you get then, bunch of idiots.
Great GREAT show. I really loved it. I wish it was called “The C Word” but whatever.
How I also love the fact it got the highest ratings since Odyssey 5… a show that was canceled shortly after it’s ratings high!
“The Big C” is a better name. It’s a phrase people use. No one calls cancer “the C word”.