The second episode of USA Network’s “Unsolved: The Murdes of Tupac and The Notorious BIG” endured a sharp week-over-week viewership decline.<\/p>\n
According to live+same-day data posted by Showbuzz, Tuesday’s “Unsolved” drew a 0.41 adults 18-49 rating and averaged 1.13 million overall viewers.<\/p>\n
While the numbers are still solid by modern cable standards, they markedly trail those posted by last week’s series premiere.<\/p>\n
That inaugural episode drew a 0.67 adults 18-49 rating and 1.60 million overall viewers.<\/p>\n
Reduced lead-in support from WWE SmackDown! Live (0.75, 2.590 million vs. 0.86, 2.69 million) obviously did not help matters, but it wouldn’t completely explain — let alone excuse — the entirety of the “Unsolved” drop.<\/p>\n
And while post-premiere drops are quite common (few shows are capable of hooking everyone<\/i> who sampled the initial episode), declines of this magnitude (39% in the demo, 29% in viewers) are atypical.<\/p>\n
As a point of comparison, the second episode of fellow USA Network Series “Shooter” fell by 22% in the demo and 13% in overall viewership. It aired in the same Tuesday at 10PM timeslot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Unsolved” was down substantially in adults 18-49 and overall viewership.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107988,"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":[1048],"tags":[7780,400],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n