By Hal Boedecker
American viewers flocked to the finale of “Downton Abbey.”
The lesson: A great love story will hook viewers every time.
The two-hour episode, which aired Sunday on PBS’ “Masterpiece,” averaged 5.4 million viewers. That number, PBS stressed, does not include station replays, DVR viewing or online streaming. It was a remarkable showing for PBS. The finale scored the biggest rating for public television since the premiere of Ken Burns’ “National Parks” in September 2009. The second season of “Downton Abbey” often brought in an audience more than double the PBS average in prime time. Season two bettered the average rating of season one by 25 percent.
Read further: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2012/02/downton-abbey-scores-big-ratings-for-pbs.html
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