Brett Ferino
06-13-2003, 06:47 PM
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - That silence you perceive is the buzz fading away from "The Osbournes."
The third-season premiere of the MTV series on Tuesday (June 10) suffered a substantial drop-off from the Season 2 debut. The show drew a little more than half the audience of last fall's premiere.
Preliminary Nielsen ratings put "The Osbournes" at a 3.2 household rating and 3.4 million viewers -- a fairly respectable number for a cable show. Still, the ratings pale in comparison to last season's premiere, which averaged a 5.2 rating and 6.6 million viewers.
The show followed a downward trend in the ratings after last season's premiere, and it appears the slide is continuing now. The series isn't as surprising as it was in its debut season, and the Osbourne family have been all over the media ever since.
On the plus side for MTV, a large majority of the show's viewers are in its target audience of people ages 12-34. Tuesday's premiere scored a 3.3 rating in the demographic. That's still below the 4.5 "The Osbournes" averaged last season, but a solid number nonetheless.
The third-season premiere of the MTV series on Tuesday (June 10) suffered a substantial drop-off from the Season 2 debut. The show drew a little more than half the audience of last fall's premiere.
Preliminary Nielsen ratings put "The Osbournes" at a 3.2 household rating and 3.4 million viewers -- a fairly respectable number for a cable show. Still, the ratings pale in comparison to last season's premiere, which averaged a 5.2 rating and 6.6 million viewers.
The show followed a downward trend in the ratings after last season's premiere, and it appears the slide is continuing now. The series isn't as surprising as it was in its debut season, and the Osbourne family have been all over the media ever since.
On the plus side for MTV, a large majority of the show's viewers are in its target audience of people ages 12-34. Tuesday's premiere scored a 3.3 rating in the demographic. That's still below the 4.5 "The Osbournes" averaged last season, but a solid number nonetheless.