HBO

Better than half

About 1.2 million people got to know Bret and Jemaine (the characters not the actual guys) this Sunday. According to Reuters, HBO’s Flight of the Conchords kept 55% of the Entourage audience. I’m not worried but just in case, I’m going to step up my Conchords campaign…(but I need to come up with one first.) Ideas?

Elsewhere in cable ratings news, HBO saw some viewer drop-offs for a few of its series, including the new show “John From Cincinnati,” which fared poorly in its second week. The second episode of the surf-noir drama averaged 1.2 million viewers at 9 p.m., meaning that it lost nearly two-thirds of its viewership from last week’s episode (3.4 million), which followed the series finale of “The Sopranos.”

Following “John,” HBO’s “Entourage” had its fourth-season bow at 10 p.m., averaging 2.2 million. That’s off from the 3.4 million the third-season finale averaged just two weeks earlier.

At 10:30 p.m., the new series “Flight of the Conchords” debuted on HBO. The show, starring the New Zealand music-comedy duo of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, averaged 1.2 million, keeping 55% of its lead-in audience.

From: Reuters