SpotVault - Big Little Lies (HBO) - Summer 2019 Ratings

Cablemetrics: Big Little Lies, The Walking Dead, Into the Badlands

These numbers are current through Monday, April 3.

WHAT MATTERS:

• HBO's Big Little Lies finished out its The Night Of-like trajectory with a new series high at 0.66, over a tenth above its previous peak. Both of the HBO minis shook off an early stinker result, slowly inched up during the mid-section of the season, and ended on three consecutive new series highs.

Cablemetrics: Big Little Lies, Into the Badlands, The Walking Dead

These numbers are current through Monday, March 27.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Big Little Lies (0.54) rose to another new series high on Sunday, up by a full tenth from last week. AMC also had a nice Sunday with The Walking Dead (4.88) and week two of Into the Badlands (1.49) both on the upswing.

Cablemetrics: Into the Badlands, Big Little Lies, The Arrangement, Underground

These numbers are current through Monday, March 20.

WHAT MATTERS:

• After 15 months off, AMC's sophomore drama Into the Badlands returned with a 1.42 demo rating, retaining less than a third of its lead-in from The Walking Dead (4.72). That's a far cry from the November 2015 series premiere (3.15) as well as the other two episodes that aired after The Walking Dead (2.27 & 2.46). Of course, Dead itself was getting much bigger raw ratings back then (with a 6.51, 6.65 and 7.02 in those weeks). Like last year, Badlands will get three weeks of The Walking Dead as a lead-in before setting out on its own.

Cablemetrics: Greenleaf, Baby Daddy, Young and Hungry, Feud: Bette and Joan

These numbers are current through Wednesday, March 15.

WHAT MATTERS:

• OWN's summer success Greenleaf returned in the spring, and the result was a new series low 0.48 and 43% behind its June 2016 series premiere (though that's still near the top of scripted cable this week).

Cablemetrics: Feud: Bette and Joan, The Arrangement, Big Little Lies, Homeland

These numbers are current through Monday, March 6.

WHAT MATTERS:

• The Sunday after the Oscars brought fairly mixed news to the broadcasters, but on cable it was mostly positive:

Cablemetrics: The Walking Dead, Big Little Lies, Major Crimes, Sun Records

These numbers are current through Monday, February 27.

WHAT MATTERS:

• The Academy Awards have never been a major stumbling block for The Walking Dead, and this year was no exception; it was down just 6% to a 4.95 this week. That point was down 19% from the year-ago telecast against the Oscars, basically the same trend as the -20% from week two.

Cablemetrics: The Detour, Big Little Lies, Crashing, Bates Motel, Billions

These numbers are current through Tuesday, February 21.

WHAT MATTERS:

• TBS had big news on Tuesday from its sophomore comedy The Detour, which returned with a new series high 0.57 at 10:00 before dropping to 0.46 (still even with the second half of last year's premiere) at 10:30.

• The star-studded HBO miniseries Big Little Lies opened with a 0.31 same-day demo rating. That merely put it at the high end of recent modest HBO premieres like The Young Pope (0.30), Vinyl (0.25) and The Night Of (0.26, though again that number was not really indicative of what it did in future episodes). It led into a comedy hour of Girls (0.27), which has continued to trend well in its final season, and newbie Crashing (0.17).

SpotVault - Big Little Lies (HBO) - Winter Spring 2017 Ratings