Cablemetrics: Cable Series vs. The Olympics

These numbers are current through Wednesday, August 10.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Not many of the top broadcast series have had to face off with the Summer Olympics, but pretty much everything on cable has stayed on. There seems to be some general impact; the vast majority of series have been down, with the average week-to-week trend over the last week at around -9%. Anything that goes a long way from that average is likely just random noise, but there have been some surprising outliers:

• On the positive side included Tuesday dramas Pretty Little Liars (0.60) and the Animal Kingdom (0.48) season finale, which both had their second-best ratings of the season despite going up against the biggest Olympic night.
• And the negatives included USA's Suits (0.39), which took a rather large downswing after hanging in the low 0.5's for the first month of the season. Even worse was the Starz Sunday comedy Survivor's Remorse (0.25), which took last week's 0.47 series high and shed almost half of it. It went from retaining over half of its Power lead-in last week to less than a third this week.

FULL TABLE:
 

Name	Net	Ep	A18-49	Last	Seas	Avg	y2y	Proj	ProjPlus	Skew	Male
Power	STAR	4	0.78	-12%	3	0.90	+65%	0.93	64	60%	43%
The Haves and the Have Nots	OWN	19	0.85	-4%	3	0.82	-8%	0.85	58	37%	32%
Ballers	HBO	4	0.54	-10%	2	0.64	-29%	0.60	41	61%	66%
Greenleaf	OWN	10	0.65	+2%	1	0.61		0.62	43	37%	29%
Pretty Little Liars	FREE	7	0.60	+11%	7	0.58	-32%	0.61	42	61%	23%
Suits	USA	5	0.39	-28%	6	0.50	-18%	0.50	34	37%	48%
The Night Of	HBO	5	0.47	-6%	1	0.43		0.44	30	47%	61%
Animal Kingdom	TNT	10	0.48	+9%	1	0.43		0.43	29	43%	48%
Vice Principals	HBO	4	0.33	-21%	1	0.42		0.35	24	60%	67%
Queen of the South	USA	7	0.37	-12%	1	0.42		0.39	27	41%	47%
Survivor's Remorse	STAR	3	0.25	-47%	3	0.38	+141%	0.34	24	57%	42%
The Fosters	FREE	7	0.34	-21%	4	0.38	-21%	0.38	26	54%	26%
Ray Donovan	SHOW	7	0.26	-21%	4	0.31	-30%	0.31		32%	55%
Mr. Robot	USA	5	0.22	-8%	2	0.30	-40%	0.29	20	49%	58%
Devious Maids	LIFE	10	0.26	-7%	4	0.30	-35%	0.30	21	41%	27%
Angie Tribeca	TBS	10	0.22	-8%	1	0.25	-26%	0.25	17	55%	60%
Tyrant	FX	6	0.20	-9%	3	0.21	-39%	0.23	16	33%	57%
UnREAL	LIFE	10	0.18	0%	2	0.21	-24%	0.21	14	52%	28%
Dead of Summer	FREE	7	0.17	-26%	1	0.20		0.19	13	54%
Motive	USA	19	0.14	-22%	3	0.20		0.23	16	32%
Scream	MTV	11	0.18	+20%	2	0.19	-45%	0.19	13	62%
Killjoys	SYFY	6	0.13	-32%	2	0.18	-24%	0.18	12	35%
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll	FX	6	0.15	0%	2	0.16	-40%	0.16	11	49%	60%
Dark Matter	SYFY	6	0.15	-17%	2	0.16	-33%	0.16	11	30%
Guilt	FREE	7	0.12	0%	1	0.12		0.12	8	46%
Roadies	SHOW	6	0.10	+25%	1	0.09		0.09	6	36%

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