Ratings drop for 'Real World'

MTV's 'World' down 53% from last season

By DENISE MARTIN

Long-running MTV reality franchise "The Real World" may finally be showing
signs of age.

Skein's 18th edition, "The Real World: Denver," premiered to lackluster
numbers in its new Wednesdays-at-10 timeslot.

Debut on Nov. 22 drew just 1.56 million total viewers, down a precipitous
53% from February's premiere of "Real World: Key West," which drew 3.33
million. Latter aired on Tuesdays.

Numbers also fell by half in MTV's target 12-24 and 12-34 demographics. In
the key 12-24 category, premiere was down to 965,000 viewers from the 1.87
million who tuned in for the first seg of "Key West."

MTV touted results for a pair of one-hour preview specials that ran at 8 and
9 leading up to the premiere. Those drew 1.18 million and 1.59 million
viewers, respectively.

Channel was also happy with traffic to its Web site. MTV.com drew 223,000
streams in the 24-hour period following the premiere.

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Ratings are down for regular shows during the Thanksgivin holiday period.
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Dolemite...

If the 10PM showing had only 1.56 million that's not a surprise since the 8PM
and 9PM 'specials' the article mentions were the exact same thing that was
shown at 10PM. So actually a total of 4.33 million watched the premiere,
some just watched at 8, some at 9 and some at 10. The premiere of the last

Obveeus...

It is more likely that the same 1.5million watch all three times.

Dolemite...

And you base this on what exactly? Why would someone watch the exact same
show three times in a row?

season only aired at 10PM. Wonder if the writer realized that.