{"id":31021,"date":"2014-11-11T11:47:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=31021"},"modified":"2014-11-11T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:47:56","slug":"ratings-affair-suffers-first-viewership-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/11\/11\/ratings-affair-suffers-first-viewership-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings: &#8220;The Affair&#8221; Suffers First Viewership Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time this season, Showtime&#8217;s &#8220;The Affair&#8221; endured a week-over-week viewership decline.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s episode, which was the critically acclaimed show&#8217;s fifth broadcast, drew an average of 673,000 viewers.  While better than the marks delivered by the series&#8217; first three episodes, it narrowly trailed the 692,000 average garnered by episode four.<\/p>\n<p>Down slightly in viewership, the episode nonetheless matched last week&#8217;s 0.18 adults 18-49 rating (rounded to a 0.2).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the night, Showtime aired &#8220;Homeland.&#8221;  The latest installment of the fourth-season drama drew a 0.52 adults 18-49 rating (rounded to a 0.5) with 1.55 million viewers.  The performance was on par with that of the previous episode, which delivered a 0.53 rating (rounded to a 0.5) and 1.54 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Both &#8220;The Affair&#8221; and &#8220;Homeland&#8221; have already been renewed for next season.<\/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":[1048,437],"tags":[865,3054],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ratings: &quot;The Affair&quot; Suffers First Viewership Drop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For the first time this season, Showtime&#039;s &quot;The Affair&quot; endured a week-over-week viewership decline. 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