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Lady Junky wrote: AquaSoloSky wrote: 7x05 Final Ratings: 0.5 / 2.29 mil

Another big drop. Yikes. Although we still have the 0.5 demo, hopefully when AoS comes back it keeps the same demo. It was doing worse than Once in terms of viewership at the end of Season 4, so who knows.

That's not "another big drop". Viewers do not matter. Only the demo does. And we're even since 3 eps, that's positive. Lol, I'm certain that we've discussed that Demo matters over overall viewers. If we had a 0.9 and 2 million viewers, noone would bat an eye at ABC.

However, massive changes in overall viewers could indicate a potential decreae in the demo, but that's less correlation and more of probability. As long as overall viewers isn't less than 1 million, then I don't think ABC will care about overall viewers. Overella viewers is pretty volatile. If Once had 4 million views but a 0.5, I don't think ABc would see that as too much better than 0.5 with 2 million views.

I'm sure it's probably an honest mistake as I see some others dicuss ratings, yet the only discuss the overall viewers, not the demo, Live+3/+7/ DVR, etc.