The second season premiere of HBO’s “The Leftovers” was by far the series’ least-watched and lowest-rated episode yet.<\/p>\n
Airing against a full fall slate for the first time in its run, Sunday’s episode drew a mere 0.3 adults 18-49 rating with 713,000 total viewers.<\/p>\n
No first season “Leftovers” episode drew fewer than 1.38 million viewers; Sunday’s season premiere, therefore, barely drew 50% of the weakest first season audience.<\/p>\n
The June 29, 2014 series premiere posted a 0.8 rating with 1.767 million total viewers. The September 7, 2014 first season finale, which faced Sunday Night Football, drew a 0.7 rating with 1.531 million total viewers.<\/p>\n
Of relevance is the fact that this week’s “Leftovers” was the first to ever face a full slate of fall competition. Last season’s finale aired opposite a Sunday Night Football game, but it dealt with neither AMC’s “Fear The Walking Dead” nor in-season programming on FOX, ABC, and CBS.<\/p>\n
That does not, however, entirely excuse the dismal performance. It certainly fails to provide optimism about the show’s prospects moving forward — instead of dealing with “Fear The Walking Dead,” it will face the original “The Walking Dead” in the coming weeks.<\/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":[78,2487],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n