Burn Notice Season 2 Premiere Ratings On Fire

 

The season two premiere of BURN NOTICE got off to a red-hot start, delivering a 4.02 household rating, 2.69 million in P25-54, 2.36 million in P18-49, 924,000 in P18-34 and 5.4 million total viewers. This represents a series high among P25-54, P18-49 and total viewers delivered for the show.

Following are comparative highlights:

Compared to the series premiere of BURN NOTICE last summer the season two premiere was up +23% in P25-54, +19% in P18-49, and +35% in total viewers.

Compared to the full season one average of BURN NOTICE the season two premiere was up +30% in P25-54, +25% in P18-49, +7% in P18-34 and +33% in total viewers.

BURN NOTICE was by far the #1 cable program on Thursday night, and made USA the #1 cable network for the night among both P18-49 and P25-54.

USA was the #2 network in all of TV in the 10pm hour behind only NBC, beating original programming on CBS and ABC in both P18-49 and P25-54.

BURN NOTICE is the #2 original scripted series telecast among P25-54 on cable for the year, behind only the MONK season finale in 1Q08.

The BURN NOTICE second season premiere exceeds Lifetime's Army Wives' second season premiere among P25-54 by +9% and total viewers by +19%.