Here’s some ratings detail on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The League via FX (note the ratings noted are “coverage ratings” but the viewer averages still are comparable to other data you normally see on the site):
Sunny posted a 1.51 P18-49 rating for episode eight. A lift of +68% over last week and the highest rating since week one. Among M18-49, last night’s episode delivered a 1.94 rating or more than a million impressions. Equally, if not more impressive, were M18-34 which notched a 3.06 rating or 853,000 impressions – highest since the premiere.
The League delivered a 1.10 rating among P18-49 for episode two, up +56% from its premiere (0.71). Men 18-49 posted a 1.58, while M18-34 generated a whopping 2.61 rating — retaining 85% of its Sunny lead-in.
| It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia |
HH |
P2+ |
P 18-49 |
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| Season 5, Thursday 1000 – 1030P |
Rtg |
000’s |
000s |
Rtg |
000s |
| 11/5/09 |
1.35 |
1,298 |
1,991 |
1.51 |
1,657 |
| 10/29/09 |
0.95 |
911 |
1,353 |
0.90 |
989 |
| 10/22/09 |
1.07 |
1,032 |
1,616 |
1.12 |
1,230 |
| 10/15/09 |
1.02 |
978 |
1,612 |
1.16 |
1,281 |
| 10/8/09 |
1.12 |
1,082 |
1,512 |
1.07 |
1,179 |
| 10/1/09 |
1.38 |
1,324 |
2,018 |
1.47 |
1,623 |
| 9/24/09 |
1.26 |
1,207 |
1,790 |
1.26 |
1,383 |
| 09/17/09 [P] |
1.50 |
1,440 |
2,245 |
1.62 |
1,781 |
| It’s Always Sunny Season 5 To-date (8x) |
1.21 |
1,161 |
1,771 |
1.27 |
1,393 |
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| Key Benchmarks |
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| Lead-in: 9:30 – 10:00P (Movie: Shallow Hal) |
1.21 |
1,159 |
1,564 |
0.95 |
1,048 |
| % Change |
+12% |
+12% |
+27% |
+59% |
+58% |
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| Lead-in: 9:30 – 10:00P (8x) |
0.95 |
912 |
1,220 |
0.67 |
742 |
| % Change vs. Season 5 Average |
+27% |
+27% |
+45% |
+90% |
+88% |
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| Year-Ago Time Period |
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| 9/4-10/23/08: Sunny (6x), Movies (2x) |
1.01 |
957 |
1301 |
0.80 |
874 |
| % Change |
+20% |
+21% |
+36% |
+59% |
+59% |
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| FX Prime (M-SU) |
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| 4Q09 thru 11/05/09 |
1.02 |
977 |
1,326 |
0.71 |
785 |
| % Change |
+19% |
+19% |
+34% |
+79% |
+77% |
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| Season Average |
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| It’s Always Sunny – Season 1 Average |
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| 08/04/05-09/13/05, Tue.,Thu. 1030-1130P |
0.94 |
811 |
1,139 |
0.73 |
747 |
| % Change |
+29% |
+43% |
+55% |
+74% |
+86% |
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| It’s Always Sunny – Season 2 Average |
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| 06/29/06-08/17/06, Thu., 10:00-11:00P |
1.03 |
911 |
1,243 |
0.79 |
832 |
| % Change |
+17% |
+27% |
+42% |
+61% |
+67% |
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| It’s Always Sunny – Season 3 Average |
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| 09/13/07-11/15/07, Thu., 10:00-11:00P |
0.93 |
874 |
1,278 |
0.87 |
967 |
| % Change |
+30% |
+33% |
+39% |
+46% |
+44% |
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| It’s Always Sunny – Season 4 Average |
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| 09/18/08-11/20/08, Thur. 10:00P-11:00P |
0.98 |
926 |
1,318 |
0.85 |
935 |
| % Change |
+23% |
+25% |
+34% |
+49% |
+49% |
| The League |
HH |
P2+ |
P 18-49 |
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| Season 1, Thursday 1030 – 1100P |
Rtg |
000’s |
000s |
Rtg |
000s |
| 11/5/09 |
0.90 |
864 |
1,414 |
1.10 |
1,207 |
| 10/29/09 [P] |
0.72 |
695 |
994 |
0.71 |
779 |
| The League S1 To-date (2x) |
0.80 |
772 |
1,185 |
0.89 |
973 |
| % Retention |
125 |
124 |
142 |
155 |
155 |
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| Key Benchmarks |
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| Lead-in: 10:00 – 10:30P (It’s Always Sunny) |
1.35 |
1,298 |
1,991 |
1.51 |
1,657 |
| % Change |
-33% |
-33% |
-29% |
-27% |
-27% |
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| Lead-in: 1000 – 1030P (2x) |
1.15 |
1,104 |
1,672 |
1.20 |
1,322 |
| % Change vs. League Season 1 Average |
-30% |
-30% |
-29% |
-26% |
-26% |
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| Year-Ago Time Period |
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| 4x Testees (10/30-11/27/08) |
0.73 |
692 |
982 |
0.56 |
616 |
| % Change |
+10% |
+12% |
+21% |
+59% |
+58% |
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| FX Prime |
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| 4Q09 thru 11/5/09 |
1.02 |
977 |
1,326 |
0.71 |
785 |
| % Change |
-22% |
-21% |
-11% |
+25% |
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+24%
After a terrible pilot last week, the second episode of The League was really funny. I hope more people check this out because this is the pairing with It’s Always Sunny that FX has been searching for.
I heart Sunny!!! I have since season 1 baby!!
Glad SUNNY is keeping it real!
I’m glad the League was up. I watched the pilot and laughed my ass off. The second episode was just as good if not better. Jon Lajoie is absolutely perfect. Good to see Sunny has a good pairing.
It’s kind of good that less people watched last week for the Sunny wrestling episode (bad) and the League premiere — because they were both pretty terrible. Last night was much better and more of what they probably want people to take away from watching.
Good for Sunny, but I couldn’t care less about the League.
Hope FX realizes they have a winner on their hands with “The League” and gives it a lot more than 6 episodes to grow. Besides, I need my Nadine Velazquez fix. That soundalike they got on the lousy “My Name Is Earl” clone FOX is trotting out this January isn’t gonna cut it.
The League rocks!
Sunny is an awesome show and has been from the start. I like League for the Fantasy football jokes, otherwise it comes off like an extended commercial of the cliche slobby looking white guy with a hot wife, and he always has to “escape” from her and her activities. it’s just been overdone to death in movies, TV, and commercials.
And then every new TV show or commercial (like nfl.com, Office, COmmunity, Parks & Rec, etc.) has the same exact type of joke, where people are in a normal environment and then someone says something dorky or weird but doesn’t realize they are weird, and then everyone looks at each other like Jim and Pam. It was funny the first time, but I can’t escape it anymore. I think comedy needs to evolve a bit in advertising and TV, with shows like Sunny and The Dating Guy.