{"id":64145,"date":"2016-06-23T15:12:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=64145"},"modified":"2016-06-23T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T20:13:02","slug":"ratings-hbos-any-given-wednesday-premieres-softly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2016\/06\/23\/ratings-hbos-any-given-wednesday-premieres-softly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings: HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Any Given Wednesday&#8221; Premieres Softly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its Ben Affleck interview has gone viral, but the actual &#8220;Any Given Wednesday&#8221; premiere generated modest live+same-day ratings for HBO.<\/p>\n<p>According to national data posted by Showbuzz, Wednesday&#8217;s edition of the Bill Simmons-hosted series drew a mere 0.12 adults 18-49 rating and 0.26 million live+same-day viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations were not enormous for the series &#8212; a mid-week sports-related talk show is not going to draw &#8220;Game Of Thrones&#8221; numbers &#8212; but these numbers still seem rather light for a heavily hyped premiere.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if buzz over the aforementioned Ben Affleck interview results in a live+same-day ratings improvement for the next &#8220;Any Given Wednesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"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],"tags":[6704,78],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ratings: HBO&#039;s &quot;Any Given Wednesday&quot; Premieres Softly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Its Ben Affleck interview has gone viral, but the actual &quot;Any Given Wednesday&quot; premiere generated modest live+same-day ratings for HBO. 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