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A&E’s flagship reality series clocked 8.5 million viewers Wednesday night, snapping a streak of ratings records and posting its first season-to-season drop. Among adults 18-49, the premiere averaged 4.2 million viewers, down 33%. Those are still huge numbers for a cable series, but the Season 5 opener was down from the show’s Season 4 debut, which drew nearly 12 million to become the No. 1-rated nonfiction series telecast in cable history. It edged the Season 4 finale, which was watched by 8.4 million. More recently, the one-hour Duck Dynasty Christmas special logged nearly 9 million viewers.
TV Ratings: 'Duck Dynasty Season 5 Premiere Ratings Down
Duck Dynasty attracted 8.5 million viewers last night, according to The Hollywood Reporter, only 400,000 fewer than December’s Christmas special. Though the viewership was far smaller than the 11.8 million viewers who tuned in for the record-breaking season 4 premiere, the show was still the most popular cable program of the evening.
Duck Dynasty Season Premiere Attracts 8.5 Million Viewers | TIME.com
The Season 5 premiere on Wednesday of the A&E reality show drew 8.5 million viewers, down sharply from the nearly 12 million that tuned in for the Season 4 opener in August. Despite the decline, that's still a healthy number, but industry experts expected to see the same viewership as before, if not better. To be fair, last winter's premiere of the show drew 8.6 million viewers.
'Duck Dynasty' returns to big ratings drop
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