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“Chucky” Again Experienced an Increase in Viewership on the Road to This Week’s Season Finale!
Keeping in mind that live viewership is hardly the be-all, end-all determination of how well a TV series is doing these days, as many people now choose to stream episodes of their favorite shows at their leisure rather than watching them live, it’s still always interesting to keep track of live viewership numbers for new horror shows, “Chucky” being one I’ve got my eye on.
“Chucky” actually airs every Tuesday night on both SYFY and USA, so we’ve got two different sets of numbers on the ratings charts every week. And those numbers continue to look strong on the road to this Tuesday night’s Season 1 Finale, with last Tuesday night’s penultimate episode “Twice the Grieving, Double the Loss” again seeing an increase in viewership.
While SYFY viewership for the episode was *slightly* down, the second-to-last episode of the debut season saw a notable uptick in USA viewership, interesting considering the fact that the previous week’s episode similarly saw a significant uptick in SYFY viewership. “Twice the Grieving, Double the Loss” pulled in 0.348 million viewers on USA last week, compared to the 0.278 million viewers who tuned in to watch “Cape Queer” on USA the previous Tuesday night.
As for the SYFY viewership, 0.350 million watched “Twice the Grieving, Double the Loss” last week, compared to the 0.377 million that tuned in to watch “Cape Queer” on SYFY.
For full context, here’s the episode-to-episode breakdown.
Episode 1, “Death by Misadventure”
- SYFY: 0.457
- USA: 0.358
Episode 2, “Give Me Something Good to Eat”
- SYFY: 0.390
- USA: 0.280
Episode 3, “I Like to Be Hugged”
- SYFY: 0.330
- USA: 0.352
Episode 4, “Just Let Go”
- SYFY: 0.282
- USA: 0.302
Episode 5, “Little Little Lies”
- SYFY: 0.252
- USA: 0.265
Episode 6, “Cape Queer”
- SYFY: 0.377
- USA: 0.278
Episode 7, “Twice the Grieving, Double the Loss”
- SYFY: 0.350
- USA: 0.348
Episode 8, “An Affair to Dismember” (Finale)
- SYFY: ??
- USA: ??
The season finale, titled “An Affair to Dismember,” airs on Tuesday night, November 30th on both SYFY and USA. You can preview the season’s final episode right here and below.
For a deeper dive into the new series, join BD writers Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman, who are covering the series on Horror Queers. Stream their first recap below.
Despite her character, Mia, dying in season one of “Dexter: Resurrection“, Deadline reports that Krysten Ritter will return for season two.
No word at this time on who Ritter will play in the upcoming season, including whether or not this means the series may resurrect her serial killer character also known as Lady Vengeance.
It is a series that has brought characters back from the dead before, after all. And that’s if Mia died at all; even Ritter has teased not to count her character out yet.
Ritter joins the previously announced Uma Thurman, who reprises her character Charley in season two.
The new season finds Dexter Morgan caught between two killers — one notorious and the other terrorizing New York in ways no one ever anticipated — all while battling his greatest enemy yet: a mid-life crisis. Harrison continues his own pursuit of justice as father and son face their darkest chapter.
Michael C. Hall will be back as Dexter Morgan in the upcoming “Dexter: Resurrection” Season 2, starring alongside Uma Thurman, Jack Alcott, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Kadia Sarif, Dominic Fumusa, Desmond Harrington, and James Remar.
They’ll be joined by series newcomers Dan Stevens as The Five Borough Killer, Bokeem Woodbine as NYPD Homicide Captain Mixon, Nona Parker Johnson as Harrison Morgan’s new love interest Fiona Mixon, and Brian Cox as The New York Ripper.
You can stream the first season on Paramount+ now. Daniel Kurland wrote here on Bloody Disgusting last year, “Somehow, against all odds, Dexter: Resurrection is good. Really good.” He continued, “With any luck, Dexter: Resurrection’s second season will maintain this momentum and consistency, rather than going off the rails like in the past.”
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