After its slight downtick last week, “Scandal,” surely boosted by last week’s climax in which Mellie revealed President Grant’s affair to the American public, returned to its red-hot form by delivering series high demo and viewership numbers Thursday.<\/p>\n
The breakout ABC drama dominated the 10PM hour with a 3.2 adults 18-49 rating and 8.89 million viewers.<\/p>\n
In setting its own personal high marks, “Scandal” also topped long-time “ABC” flagship “Grey’s Anatomy” by a comfortable margin.\u00a0 “Grey’s” posted a 2.9 with 8.60 million viewers.<\/p>\n
(Update: “Grey’s” improved to a 3.1 rating with 8.97 million viewers in the final daily broadcast ratings. “Scandal” held steady at a 3.2, cementing its lead over the veteran ABC soap<\/i>)<\/p>\n
Following its lackluster, abbreviated inaugural season–and more lukewarm ratings in the early part of its current season–“Scandal” has exploded for ABC, delivering vastly-improved ratings and significantly greater buzz.\u00a0 It, at least for this week, reigns as the network’s number one drama series and number two overall program.<\/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":[212,228],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n