{"id":113645,"date":"2018-06-05T10:52:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=113645"},"modified":"2018-06-05T12:55:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T16:55:49","slug":"ratings-hbos-westworld-rises-series-low-anthony-hopkins-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/06\/05\/ratings-hbos-westworld-rises-series-low-anthony-hopkins-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings: HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Westworld&#8221; Rises From Series Low As Anthony Hopkins Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time this season, an episode of &#8220;Westworld&#8221; enjoyed gains in adults 18-49 and overall viewership.<\/p>\n<p>According to live+same-day data posted by Showbuzz, Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;Westworld&#8221; drew a 0.50 adults 18-49 rating and averaged 1.39 million overall viewers.<\/p>\n<p>While the numbers are modest in comparison to the show&#8217;s historical standard, they reflect gains from the 0.39 rating and 1.11 million viewer mark posted by last week&#8217;s episode (both were series lows).<\/p>\n<p>Neither episode aired in ideal circumstances.  Last week&#8217;s broadcast aired on Memorial Day Weekend and faced game seven of the NBA Eastern Conference Championship.  This week&#8217;s broadcast faced competition from game two of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s episode also offered the follow-up to last week&#8217;s closing development:  the surprise return of season one star (and entertainment icon) Anthony Hopkins, who plays Robert Ford.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;Westworld&#8221; led into the series premiere of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Succession&#8221; (0.15 rating, 0.58 million viewers).  &#8220;Last Week Tonight&#8221; followed with a 0.40 in the demo and 1.14 million in viewership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Westworld&#8221; enjoyed a viewership gain despite competition from the NBA Finals.","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":[1048],"tags":[78,7617],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ratings: HBO&#039;s &quot;Westworld&quot; Rises From Series Low As Anthony Hopkins Returns<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For the first time this season, an episode of &quot;Westworld&quot; enjoyed gains in adults 18-49 and overall viewership. 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