Thursday, March 29, 2012

‘Downton Abbey’ sets record for PBS’ ‘Masterpiece’ (ORLANDO SENTINEL)



— posted by halboedeker on March, 28 2012 3:00 PM

Isn’t it splendid when good things happen to great programs?

Season two of “Downton Abbey” was the most-watched miniseries in “Masterpiece” history. PBS shared figures from Nielsen that “Downton” reached a cumulative 17 million viewers, thus overtaking “The Buccaneers,” which brought in 14.9 million viewers in October 1995.

“Downton II” averaged 7 million viewers, surpassing “Downton I,” which had 5 million viewers. “Downton” more than tripled the the PBS prime-time average of 2.1 million viewers


READ MORE:  http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2012/03/downton-abbey-set-record-for-pbs-masterpiece.html


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