{"id":43233,"date":"2015-07-14T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T14:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=43233"},"modified":"2015-07-14T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T14:50:10","slug":"ratings-masters-of-sex-ray-donovan-premieres-post-viewership-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/07\/14\/ratings-masters-of-sex-ray-donovan-premieres-post-viewership-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings: &#8220;Masters of Sex,&#8221; &#8220;Ray Donovan&#8221; Premieres Post Viewership Lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still the subject of ample media attention and critical acclaim, Showtime&#8217;s &#8220;Masters of Sex&#8221; cannot transform its buzz into strong live+same-day television ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s season three premiere was actually the least-watched episode yet.<\/p>\n<p>Airing out of the &#8220;Ray Donovan&#8221; season premiere, Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;Masters&#8221; drew a 0.13 adults 18-49 rating with 583,000 viewers.  Both series lows, the numbers markedly trail those of the season two premiere (0.32, 825,000) and season two finale (0.28, 889,000).<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned season three &#8220;Ray Donovan&#8221; premiere drew a 0.32 adults 18-49 rating with 1.035 million viewers.  Its performance was also the worst ever for the series.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly disappointing about the &#8220;Ray Donovan&#8221; performance is the fact that the series ended its second season on a ratings high note.  After opening its second season with a 0.4 rating and 1.22 million total viewers, the drama ended up closing the season with a considerably stronger 0.7 and 1.966 million viewers.  <\/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":[1023,447,503],"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;Masters of Sex,&quot; &quot;Ray Donovan&quot; Premieres Post Viewership Lows<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Still the subject of ample media attention and critical acclaim, Showtime&#039;s &quot;Masters of Sex&quot; cannot transform its buzz into strong live+same-day\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/07\/14\/ratings-masters-of-sex-ray-donovan-premieres-post-viewership-lows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ratings: &quot;Masters of Sex,&quot; &quot;Ray Donovan&quot; Premieres Post Viewership Lows\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Still the subject of ample media attention and critical acclaim, Showtime&#039;s &quot;Masters of Sex&quot; cannot transform its buzz into strong live+same-day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/07\/14\/ratings-masters-of-sex-ray-donovan-premieres-post-viewership-lows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-14T14:50:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ray-Donovan-S3-e1436885392548.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"552\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/07\/14\/ratings-masters-of-sex-ray-donovan-premieres-post-viewership-lows\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/07\/14\/ratings-masters-of-sex-ray-donovan-premieres-post-viewership-lows\/\",\"name\":\"Ratings: \\\"Masters of Sex,\\\" \\\"Ray Donovan\\\" Premieres Post Viewership Lows\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-14T14:50:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-07-14T14:50:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Still the subject of ample media attention and critical acclaim, Showtime's \\\"Masters of Sex\\\" cannot transform its buzz into strong live+same-day\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/07\/14\/ratings-masters-of-sex-ray-donovan-premieres-post-viewership-lows\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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