BET’s “The Game” Premiere Episode Draws 7.7 Million Viewers!!!
Posted by Media Outrage on January 12th, 2011
Tia Mowry, Pooch Hall, Coby Bell, Wendy Raquel Robinson and Hosea Chanchez helped BET score their second highest rated program in the network’s history with 7.7 million viewers last night.
BET scored a major ratings victory last night (Jan.11) with the debut of their new night of scripted series.
‘The Game,’ which was previously cancelled in 2008 by The CW and picked up by BET, pulled in 7.7 million viewers to become the cable network’s biggest audience for a scripted series debut.Although The New York Times cited dismal ratings as the reason The CW canned the show,’The Game’s premiere surpasses ratings for last October’s BET Hip Hop Awards, which drew 3.5 million viewers and even the network’s tenth annual BET Awards, which drew just over 7 million viewers. It is the second most watched program in the history of the network behind the 2009 BET Awards, which took in 10.6 million viewers.
Last night, topics related to the show including ‘Tasha Mack,’ ‘Derwin,’ ‘Rick Fox,’ ‘Melanie’ ‘GameOn’ and ‘The Game’ generated between six and seven of the top-10 Twitter Trending Topics throughout the hour of the show’s first broadcast.
The dramedy, which follows the relationships of football players — and the women who love them, was created by ‘Girlfriends’ creator/producer Mara Brock Akil. Yesterday’s episode marked the premiere of the series’ fourth season having already aired for three seasons on the CW. The half-hour sitcom stars Tia Mowry-Hardrict,Pooch Hall,Wendy Raquel Robinson, Coby Bell, Hosea Chanchez, and Brittany Daniel.
BET has been very aggressive in their marketing push of ‘The Game’ airing marathons of the previous three seasons for two consecutive weekends, buying commercial spots on major networks, including FOX, and even showcasing the show at the Television Critics Association’s winter show preview last week in Pasadena. The New York Times even did a feature on ‘The Game’ calling it “more real than reality TV.” There were also screening parties held around the country.
In addition, the Queen Latifah produced ‘Let’s Stay Together’ drew 4.4 million viewers. It follows the relationship challenges of five young African-Americans.
‘The Game’ airs on BET Tuesday at 10 pm EST. ‘Let’s Stay Together’ airs immediately after at 10:30pm EST.
Mediaoutrage- It will be interesting to see what the numbers do in the next few episodes. It’s great to see one of “our” shows making real waves!
January 12th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I agree MO about “our” shows, we need more of them. Hate to say it but in about 2 weeks “lets stay together” will have 47 viewers and thats gon be cast and crew. hot garbage
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Media Outrage Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 12:13 am
lol @ cast and crew
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January 12th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
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joneblaze Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 5:02 am
I AGREE
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January 12th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Whoa!!! Those are mega ratings but you are right MO, let’s see how the ratings will look after 5-6 episodes.
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January 13th, 2011 at 12:08 am
Too bad I was at work. But I heard the season premiere was somewhat dry.
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January 22nd, 2011 at 1:18 pm
I was really looking forward to the new season of The Game. It was a BIG let down. Everythinhg is sooooo Hollywood. What happened to the original down to Earth vibe it had?
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Media Outrage Reply:
January 22nd, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Our sentiments EXACTLY!
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January 3rd, 2012 at 3:36 pm
All I wanted was the show back and stay in a positive direction and I couldn’t get that from BET. I love the way CW was going and now it seems like a stereotype. I don’t know if I’m going to watch this season or not. I think the only reason I would is to put my Sling adapter to use. I love my Sling adapter. It allows me to watch LIVE TV everywhere I go on my phone or laptop. It’s truly the best thing ever. But you can’t go wrong with DISH. As a customer and employee I do highly recommend it for all you that like to watch your favorite shows like The Game. You’ll never miss what is going on with Tasha, Melanie, Derwin or Malik!
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February 29th, 2012 at 10:29 pm
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