Update 2:<\/b> Thursday’s two-hour edition of “Grey’s Anatomy” suffered a 7% week-over-week decline in the adults 18-49 demographic.<\/p>\n
A follow-up to last week’s momentous episode, which featured the death of Patrick Dempsey’s Derek Shepherd, this week’s “Grey’s” drew a 2.6 adults 18-49 rating with 8.74 million viewers.<\/p>\n
Last week’s one-hour installment, which benefited from hype over a gamechanger and (to an extent) a prematurely released interview confirming Derek’s death, drew a 2.8 with 9.55 million viewers.<\/p>\n
— Leading out of “Grey’s,” ABC’s “American Crime” posted a 0.9 with 3.63 million viewers in the 10PM hour.
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Update:<\/b> The two-hour follow-up to last week’s shocker of a “Grey’s Anatomy” episode endured a week-over-week ratings decline.<\/p>\n
While the performance was above average for the current “Grey’s” season, it did not match the marks set by last week’s episode. Hyped as a gamechanger, that episode featured the death of Patrick Dempsey’s Derek Shepherd.<\/p>\n
Per fast national data, this week’s “Grey’s” drew a 2.5 adults 18-49 rating with 8.680 million viewers from 8-9PM and a 2.6 with 8.676 million from 9-10PM. Both hourly marks trail those of last week’s hourlong broadcast, which posted a 2.8 and 9.55 million viewers.<\/p>\n
ABC’s Thursday also included “American Crime” (1.0, 3.765 million).
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Driven by hype over a gamechanging event, which turned out to be the death of Patrick Dempsey’s Derek Shepherd, last week’s “Grey’s Anatomy” delivered the show’s best performance since the September season premiere.<\/p>\n
This week’s two-hour follow-up was not quite as hot, at least as far as the overnights go, but it definitely drew a sizable audience.<\/p>\n
Airing from 8-10PM ET, Thursday’s edition of the ABC drama drew a 7.1 overnight household rating. While down from the 7.6 garnered by last week’s 8-9PM shocker of an episode, the number is well above what the show had been averaging this season.<\/p>\n
Details on how the show fared in adults 18-49 and total viewership will emerge by 11:30PM ET.<\/p>\n
Despite also besting last week’s “Scandal” in the 9PM hour, and thus providing a better lead-in, “Grey’s” did not lead ABC lead-out “American Crime” to an improved performance. Down from last week’s 3.3, this week’s edition drew a 3.1 overnight household rating.<\/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":[233,3767,76],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n