{"id":33956,"date":"2015-01-22T17:45:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T21:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=33956"},"modified":"2015-01-22T17:45:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T21:45:47","slug":"ratings-american-horror-story-rises-freak-show-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/01\/22\/ratings-american-horror-story-rises-freak-show-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings: &#8220;American Horror Story&#8221; Rises for &#8220;Freak Show&#8221; Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After premiering to the series&#8217; all-time best ratings, &#8220;American Horror Story: Freak Show&#8221; fell victim to a creative and commercial cold streak.<\/p>\n<p>The lowest-rated and least-watched episode since the 2012-13 &#8220;Asylum&#8221; season, which famously underperformed, last week&#8217;s penultimate &#8220;Freak Show&#8221; installment was one of only two &#8220;AHS&#8221; episodes since early 2013 to attract fewer than 3 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Debate exists over whether the fourth &#8220;AHS&#8221; concluded on a creative high note.  The FX drama can, however, celebrate a welcome ratings uptick for its season finale.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s &#8220;Freak Show&#8221; closer drew an improved 1.6 adults 18-49 rating with 3.27 million viewers.  Both figures best those of last week&#8217;s broadcast, which drew a 1.4 rating with 2.94 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ratings downturn, &#8220;AHS: Freak Show&#8221; reigned as cable&#8217;s highest-rated Wednesday program for the duration of its run.  A fifth season, meanwhile, has already been confirmed.<\/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":[2827,608,519],"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;American Horror Story&quot; Rises for &quot;Freak Show&quot; Finale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After premiering to the series&#039; all-time best ratings, &quot;American Horror Story: Freak Show&quot; fell victim to a creative and commercial cold streak. 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