While lead-in “Suits” enjoyed week-to-week gains in adults 18-49 and total viewership, USA Network’s “Mr. Robot” fell to new live+same-day lows this week.<\/p>\n
According to live+same-day data, Wednesday’s edition of the Emmy-nominated series drew a mere 0.26 adults 18-49 rating and 637,000 total viewers. The numbers trail the 0.30 adults 18-49 rating and 799,000 viewer mark drawn by last week’s broadcast, both of which then ranked as lows for the critically acclaimed drama.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s episode did face competition from the Democratic National Convention. DNC viewership was far from trivial.<\/p>\n
At the same time, it was not massive enough to warrant overlooking this week’s “Mr. Robot” performance. Despite the immense buzz, rave reviews, and Emmy nominations, “Mr. Robot” is simply not a live+same-day draw.<\/p>\n
And it has apparently become less of one this year. Whereas no first season episode drew fewer than 1.15 million live+same-day viewers, two of the three second season installments have drawn considerably fewer than 1 million.<\/p>\n
Hurting this week’s narrative is the fact that lead-in “Suits” posted week-to-week gains (granted, “Suits” did not air during peak convention coverage). This week’s broadcast drew a 0.54 adults 18-49 rating and 1.778 million total viewers, besting the 0.49 rating and 1.652 million audience figure posted last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66188,"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":[4423,510,400],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n