Cablemetrics: Game of Thrones, Ballers, The Sinner, Halt and Catch Fire

These numbers are current through Monday, August 28.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Game of Thrones packed on nearly a point for its season finale, ending its penultimate run with its third new series high of the season at 5.70. This was the year it officially became a worthy peer to The Walking Dead; though it still trails a bit in season average, its finale outrated the last Dead episode by 0.28 points. Since Dead will probably have aired at least another 1.5 seasons by the next time we see Thrones, you have to like Thrones' chances to outrate it when they are next compared.
  

• Thrones also boosted its lead-out comedy Ballers to a new series high 1.37, though 10:30 comedy Insecure somehow remained frozen at its high of 0.66 for the fourth different time.

• On USA, The Sinner (0.53) made it three weeks in a row of post-premiere growth, adding two more hundredths for episode four. It pulled even farther away from the rest of the USA pack as its lead-in Suits (0.37) was back down by 0.04 this week.

• And AMC's Halt and Catch Fire (0.10) was the latest network veteran to make the move to Saturday night, opening its final season by tying the low point from last year.

FULL TABLE:

Show		Episode			Season
Name	Net	Ep	A18-49	Last	Seas	Avg	y2y	Proj	ProjPlus	Skew	Male
Game of Thrones	HBO	7	5.70	+21%	7	4.82	+28%	4.92	402	59%	56%
Rick and Morty	ADUL	5	1.37	+9%	3	1.35	+31%	1.32	107	68%	67%
Ballers	HBO	6	1.37	+27%	3	1.21	+93%	1.10	90	61%	59%
The Haves and the Have Nots	OWN	20	0.65	+2%	4	0.63	-23%	0.64	52	33%	34%
Insecure	HBO	6	0.66	0%	2	0.63	+351%	0.71	58	64%	53%
American Dad!	TBS	20	0.52	+4%	13	0.52	-3%	0.52	43	68%	60%
The Sinner	USA	4	0.53	+4%	1	0.47		0.49	40	37%	34%
Snowfall	FX	8	0.36	-12%	1	0.43		0.42	34	55%	61%
The Guest Book	TBS	5	0.41	+2%	1	0.41		0.40	33	45%	50%
Preacher	AMC	11	0.32	+3%	2	0.41	-36%	0.41	33	43%	60%
Wrecked	TBS	10	0.39	-3%	2	0.39	-14%	0.39	32	49%	52%
Queen of the South	USA	12	0.40	-5%	2	0.38	0%	0.38	31	42%	38%
Greenleaf	OWN	11	0.38	+6%	2	0.38	-38%	0.38	31	34%	31%
Animal Kingdom	TNT	12	0.40	+3%	2	0.37	-13%	0.37	30	41%	49%
Being Mary Jane	BET	16	0.35	+40%	4	0.37	-49%	0.37	30	53%	23%
The Strain	FX	7	0.31	0%	4	0.37	-15%	0.35	29	46%	60%
Suits	USA	7	0.37	-10%	7	0.36	-24%	0.37	30	33%	48%
Shooter	USA	6	0.34	0%	2	0.34	-28%	0.35	28	35%	56%
Survivor's Remorse	STAR	2	0.23	-44%	4	0.32	-26%	0.28	23	52%	35%
The Last Ship	TNT	3	0.31	+3%	4	0.32	-31%	0.35	28	23%	58%
People of Earth	TBS	6	0.31	+3%	2	0.31	-3%	0.31	26	58%	60%
The Fosters	FREE	7	0.21	-16%	5	0.27	-27%	0.28	23	50%	26%
Ray Donovan	SHOW	4	0.23	-15%	5	0.26	-16%	0.26	21	30%	54%
Chesapeake Shores	HALL	4	0.22	-4%	2	0.23	-26%	0.22	18	16%	33%
Younger	TVLA	9	0.22	+5%	4	0.21	+26%	0.22	18	37%	26%
Odd Mom Out	BRAV	7	0.18	-5%	3	0.19	+7%	0.21	17	44%	24%
Killjoys	SYFY	9	0.16	+7%	3	0.17	-6%	0.17	14	34%	57%
The Bold Type	FREE	8	0.12	-8%	1	0.15		0.14	12	60%	18%
Dark Matter	SYFY	12	0.15	+7%	3	0.15	-10%	0.15	12	31%	59%
Blood Drive	SYFY	11	0.09	-10%	1	0.14		0.14	12	37%	64%
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce	BRAV	2	0.14	+17%	4	0.13	-7%	0.13	11	45%
Will	TNT	9	0.10	+25%	1	0.11		0.11	9	36%
Halt and Catch Fire	AMC	1	0.10		4	0.10	-33%	0.08	7	47%

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