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Ratings: “The Newsroom” Hits Series Low, “Comeback” Flops

The third and final season of HBO’s “The Newsroom” got off to a very poor start.

Sunday’s episode, which was the first of the show’s premieres to air head-to-head with Sunday Night Football, drew a series low viewership average of 1.21 million. Also disappointing, its adults 18-49 rating clocked in at a paltry 0.5 (since HBO is subscriber-based, adults 18-49 performance is not as relevant as it is for ad-supported programmers; the rating still carries weight for benchmarking purposes).

The performance paled in comparison to those of the season two premiere (0.9, 2.22 million) and season two finale (0.7, 1.67 million).

— HBO followed “The Newsroom” with the premiere of revived “The Comeback.” A flop, the episode drew a mere 0.1 adults 18-49 rating with 300,000 viewers. The season premiere of lead-out “Getting On” performed about as poorly–it drew a 0.1 rating with 309,000 viewers.

Brian Cantor

Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. He has been a leading reporter in the music, movie, television and sporting spaces since 2002. Brian's reporting has been cited by major websites like BuzzFeed, Billboard, the New Yorker and The Fader -- and shared by celebrities like Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj. Contact Brian at brian.cantor[at]headlineplanet.com.

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