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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Sept 13, 2013 15:45:50 GMT -6
About 5 million people tuned in to the premier telecast of the Burn Notice series finale last night at 9 PM– it’s biggest audience in more than a year. That’s amillion+ stronger than the drama series’ penultimate episode last week. About 1.6 million of the crowd who came to say goodbye after seven seasons were 18-49 year olds. It was the night’s second most watched cable program, behind only NFLN’s New England Patriots vs New York Jets football game — that clocked 8.8 million viewers. In its timeslot, Burn’s swan-song snagged a larger audience than anything on broadcast TV except CBS’s Big Brother.
Burn Notice is one of only three to pass the 100-episode mark that makes syndicators so happy, putting it in company with Monk and Psych.
The series finale will not set a series record. The show’s August ’09 mid-season finale logged 9 million viewers, when Live + 7 viewing was tallied. That episode had scored 7.6 million in Live+Same Day. (Illustrative of how valuable Burn, created by Matt Nix, was to the network as a launchpad for new series, that night’s episode fueled what was then the network’s newest original series Royal Pains — it nabbed 8.2 million viewers.
Deadline has reported WME-repped Nix has expressed interest in pursuing a Burn Notice spinoff movie/potential series centered on characters Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell) and Jesse Porter (Coby Bell).
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