duck dynasty is back season five premiere da just recently and it was %uh
a relatively big hit 8.5 million viewers
however that is 28 percent lower than their season 4 premiere
from last August so it looks like
man they're screwed the rating just dropping so fast now they're still doing
well
um but I don't know that many would have predicted
a fairly significant drop in ratings from their previous on
premier that hadn't generated as much controversy so when you think about that
I think that the you know 8.5 million dollars for cable
able to 50 million viewers for cable show is still a
a amazing up yet still really good number so you know as always when you're
talking about
a decline a you gotta put it in in some degree perspective and that's still a
huge it that another
cable network to launch to show the cat ate half million viewers for the
premiere
everybody be guy five in themselves yeah so Brady show where you're not working
math is not being cut
and there's no mother dragons 8.5 million very good
I'm gonna guess that that's not breaking bad never had 8.5 million
I'm at that but I'll be guy I doubt it so that maybe I bet you're right about
that but but a regular baking bread
briefing taking Brad field goal I
a regular breaking bad episode certainly
wouldn't get a that may have been another big-time number so
yeah it's still a success but it's great to see it failing henry VIII IV good
field hand and then and the other end as they feel
fail we did too because that should be loose now list so I
me and I might be reading about why I think it's actually worse than it looks
so
20 percent lower okay that's that's the number we actually see
just comparing the wrong number they play five verses whatever's 20 percent
higher than that
12 million some something like twelve billion I'm not a math guy so we know
from the past few weeks when so many people were talking about this and the
the merchandise was selling out
that if you're a conservative in a specially if you're homophobic you love
the controversy and you definitely loved
duck dynasty more than you did before now some quantity of people
must've been swayed by the controversy into watching the show
that means that they got more conservative support than they otherwise
would have more homophobic more republican
or Christian or whatever term you are you support than they would have
which tells me that they didn't lose twenty percent of their old audience be
lost more than twenty percent in tho love it has been
were covered by bringing a room with a obviously they got a lot of publicity
which caused some new piano tune and
no mate but but the question then is the twenty percent that they
the the rear I what I would consider real fans people who watched before was
this big controversial thing
those people probably likely to keep watching throughout the season
the people are tuning in because the big controversy you happen to what's up
watch the premiere are those going to be as valuable viewers
to the network to A&E as the ones that they'll all be friends but
generally for a show like that the premier will do better and then they
Rd to come down a little not always sometimes it'll build like
a game of Thrones built because it premiered in did well and people were
telling people you gotta watch things die with Rochelle so would bill
so they know that right right battered reader so I doubt it
there with the I doubt that will happen yeah to %uh ducked I see other numbers
will come down
but of course they they came down from the previous premier to
I'm sure so look it wouldn't that that's not done not insignificant declined for
show what did get all that sort of free publicity and actually as you point out
made out with the publicity they wanted this for whatever better for worse
the the controversy over what r Robert said
person said it says something about
what is dominant in american culture and how strong those sorts of
extremely old fashioned homophobic but but don't forget
also in tight shinto anti-black a
remarks that he had made like it would come back and had been twice as big as
it was before
for me as a progressive that would have been extremely disheartening not because
they don't think those people exist but because
apparently the existing greater numbers than I would have thought the fact that
the show actually ended up losing
out because of what happened corridor ever
despite what happened that makes me feel better coming out of the entire
country yep I just had Google shinto
okay know he did oddly enough make an anti shinto comment
I'll so that those are like the those are disturbed Japanese
northern religion religion right exactly yeah it was bizarre when he said it to
yet that's weird yet we know what he's a crazy person he's a crazy big
yet they say create and the end and don't forget the stuff about women about
I need to marry them when they're fifteen before they become
gold diggers and stuff like that like it not that done that guy but to down on
the way that he views the world I don't want there to be
twelve-point five million of those people glad that the audience has dipped
down
because I think that there's something positive about america