{"id":10692,"date":"2011-03-29T21:48:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T02:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=10692"},"modified":"2011-03-29T21:48:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T02:48:25","slug":"hard-times-of-rj-berger-ratings-return-softly-but-did-jersey-shore-help-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2011\/03\/29\/hard-times-of-rj-berger-ratings-return-softly-but-did-jersey-shore-help-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hard Times of RJ Berger&#8221; Ratings Return Softly, But Did &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221; Help At All?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTV made sure its scripted comedy &#8220;The Hard Times of RJ Berger&#8221; returned for season two with help from the &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221; juggernaut.  It premiered the season after Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;Shore&#8221; season finale, giving &#8220;Berger&#8221; its highest viewership to-date.  Then, on Monday, its first episode in the regular timeslot featured a guest appearance from &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221; star Vinny.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there is only a hint of evidence to successfully claim &#8220;Shore&#8221; boosted mass interest in the risque MTV comedy.  Save for its performance in one important demographic, &#8220;Berger&#8221; barely returned up from where it ended its first season last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s episode posted a 0.6 adults 18-49 rating with 1.367 million viewers, according to Travis Yanan Watches TV. That marked only a slight increase from the 0.5 rating and 1.288 million viewers for the season one finale.<\/p>\n<p>The comparative season one episode, the second of the season and the first that aired in the Monday timeslot, posted a 0.5 rating with 1.172 million viewers last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as noted, there was still a bit of &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221; impact on &#8220;RJ Berger.&#8221;  Unless the data being reported is in error, the show improved dramatically in the women 18-34 demographic, moving from a 0.4 for the season one finale and 0.5 for the second season one episode to a 0.9 Monday night.  Women 18-34 is one of &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221;&#8216;s target demographics, so it is possible the cross-promotion played a role in reaching that demo.<\/p>\n<p>Still, even considering the difficulty facing cable series that air in the regular season (as opposed to the summer), one would think MTV was, ultimately, hoping for a bit more of a boost in the overall viewership numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Hard Times of RJ Berger&quot; Ratings Return Softly, But Did &quot;Jersey Shore&quot; Help At All?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MTV made sure its scripted comedy &quot;The Hard Times of RJ Berger&quot; returned for season two with help from the &quot;Jersey Shore&quot; juggernaut. 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