HBO’s Game of Thrones had its Season 5 debut on Sunday and not only did it pull record ratings for the broadcast, it also topped almost all the the charts that it appeared on for the week of April 6th to 13th. It was the Number 1 most watched show on cable for the the week and it topped the General Sentiment chart that tracks social network activity for cable shows. And it almost topped the Nielsen Twitter Ratings for the week, coming in at the Number 2 slot. And if you were to put together a combined chart for the cable channels and the broadcast networks based on the ratings in the 18-49 demo, GoT would come in at Number 2 on that list behind only the NCAA Basketball Championship. So Game of Thrones has returned strong and I expect it to continue to perform well throughout the rest of its fifth season (and it was already renewed through a sixth season last year). There’s not much other activity on the charts because of the preponderance of repeats and preemptions for the broadcast nets the last couple of weeks. Of interest, though, the 12 Monkeys season finale managed to place at Number 5 in the Daily Nielsen Twitter Ratings for Friday even though it did not make it into the General Sentiment chart for the week.
Here is the full look at chart activity for genre shows for the week of April 6th thru 12th:
| Nielsen Twitter Rankings | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | ||
| Game of Thrones | HBO | 2 | n/a | Up | ||
| Broadcast Networks Top 25 – Ratings 18-49 | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | Rating | Prior Week |
| Once Upon A Time | ABC | 25 | n/a | Up | 1.6 | n/a |
| Broadcast Networks Top 25 – Total Viewers | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | Viewers (MM) | Prior Week |
| Person of Interest | CBS | 18 | n/a | Up | 8.7 | n/a |
| Cable Networks Top 25 – Total Viewers | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | Viewers (MM) | Prior Week |
| Game of Thrones | HBO | 1 | n/a | Up | 8.0 | n/a |
| General Sentiment – Broadcast Networks Top 25 | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | ||
| Once Upon A Time | ABC | 7 | n/a | Up | ||
| Agents of SHIELD | ABC | 8 | 9 | Up | ||
| Forever | ABC | 15 | 17 | Up | ||
| Person of Interest | CBS | 25 | n/a | Up | ||
| General Sentiment – Cable Channels Top 25 | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | ||
| Game of Thrones | HBO | 1 | n/a | Up | ||
| Outlander | STARZ | 20 | 20 | Same | ||
| Prior Week Live+3: | ||||||
| Broadcast Networks Top 25 Live+3 – Ratings 18-49 | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | Rating | Prior Week |
| Agents of SHIELD | ABC | 25 | 23 | Down | 2.2 | 2.4 |
| Broadcast Networks Top 25 Live+3 – Total Viewers | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | Viewers (MM) | Prior Week |
| No Genre Entries | ||||||
| Cable Networks Top 25 Live+3 – Ratings 18-49 | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | Rating | Prior Week |
| No Genre Entries | ||||||
| Cable Networks Top 25 Live+3 – Total Viewers | ||||||
| Series | Network | Rank | Prior Week | Move -ment | Viewers (MM) | Prior Week |
| No Genre Entries | ||||||
Nielsen Twitter Ratings ranked based on the Unique Audience – The total number of distinct Twitter accounts accruing at least one impression of one or more different Tweets ascribed to a TV episode. More info at this link.
General Sentiment tracks activity across the social networks for shows airing new episodes in Prime Time (start times between 8:00 PM and 10:55 PM EST Monday – Saturday and 7:00 PM and 10:55 PM EST on Sunday). This data collected on seven (7) major broadcast networks and 43 cable television networks. More info at this link.
