or


[04/09/13 - 10:27 AM]
Fifth Season Premiere of "River Monsters" Is Most Watched Season Debut in Animal Planet History
Animal Planet spins the numbers for Sunday, April 7.
[via press release from Animal Planet]

FIFTH SEASON PREMIERE OF "RIVER MONSTERS" IS MOST WATCHED SEASON DEBUT IN ANIMAL PLANET HISTORY

- Network Hooks 1.8 Million Viewers For RIVER MONSTERS Two-hour Season Premiere Episode -

(New York, April 9, 2012) - The network's best-performing series, RIVER MONSTERS, baited viewers with a two-hour, monster-sized season opener, "Face Ripper," in which host, biologist and extreme angler Jeremy Wade took viewers along as he investigated a horrific death in a Bolivian river where a man's face was ripped to shreds. The season premiere, which aired on Sunday, reeled in gigantic viewers with 1.8M P2+, making it the most-watched season debut in Animal Planet history and the second most watched episode of RIVER MONSTERS ever.

The season debut, "Face Ripper," saw significant delivery increases among several key demos versus last season's average, including P2+ (+19%, 1.8M vs. 1.5M), HH (+9%, 1.2M vs. 1.1M), P18-49 (+18%, 938k vs. 795k), M18-49 (+28%, 608k vs. 474k) and M25-54 (+9%, 543k vs. 500k).

River Monsters helped Animal Planet rank third, only behind History and AMC, among ad-supported cable nets in the 9-11pm timeslot with M18-49 (excluding sports) and fourth with M25-54. "Face Ripper" ranked as the 7th ad-supported cable telecast of the night among M18-49, just behind Mad Men.

Now in the midst of its fifth season, new episodes of RIVER MONSTERS premiere every Sunday at 9 PM. Wade continues his quest for answers, taking viewers along as he unravels fish tales of giant killers - where sometimes the fact is stranger than the fiction! In this new season, RIVER MONSTERS takes treacherous and mysterious to new heights with the most dangerous adventures of his lifetime. Wade's journeys include a mission to Chernobyl's nuclear wastelands in search of mutant fish in a tick-tock race against time to avoid radiation exposure, a trip to Nicaragua to capture an elusive killer torpedo, and a bloodthirsty quest on American soil in pursuit of a prehistoric underwater vampire.

The new season of RIVER MONSTERS will culminate with a special Memorial Day two-hour season finale on Monday, May 27, at 8 pm ET/PT, which may just uncover the mother of all RIVER MONSTERS. Wade will take viewers along on an epic mission from the depths of Loch Ness to the volcanoes of Iceland to track down the world's most famous water-dwelling monster. The special episode will air as part of Animal Planet's MONSTER WEEK (Monday, May 20 - Monday, May 27).

RIVER MONSTERS is a co-production of Icon Films and Animal Planet. Harry and Laura Marshall are the executive producers for Icon Films. For Animal Planet, Lisa Lucas is the executive producer, with production support from Jamie Linn and Patrick Keegan. RIVER MONSTERS was developed by Animal Planet's Charlie Foley.

Animal Planet Media (APM), a multi-media business unit of Discovery Communications, is the world's only entertainment brand that immerses viewers in the full range of life in the animal kingdom with rich, deep content via multiple platforms and offers animal lovers and pet owners access to a centralized online, television and mobile community for immersive, engaging, high-quality entertainment, information and enrichment. APM consists of the Animal Planet television network, available in more than 96 million homes in the US; online assets www.animalplanet.com, the ultimate online destination for all things animal; the 24/7 broadband channel, Animal Planet Beyond; Petfinder.com, the #1 pet-related Web property globally that facilitates pet adoption; and other media platforms including a robust Video-on-Demand (VOD) service; mobile content; and merchandising extensions.





  [april 2013]  
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
 


· RIVER MONSTERS (ANIMAL PLANET)




most recent ratings | view all posts
[01/21/25 - 12:00 PM]
Netflix Top 10 Week of Jan. 13: "Back in Action" Hits the Mark with Chart-Topping Debut
There was plenty of love for "XO, Kitty's" second season, which premiered on January 16 and debuted at No. 2 on the English TV list with 14.2 million views.
[01/21/25 - 08:54 AM]
NBC Sports Delivers Its Fourth-Largest NFL Divisional Playoff Audience on Record as Rams-Eagles Averages 37.8 Million Viewers on NBC & Peacock
The audience for Rams-Eagles peaked with an average of 47.5 million viewers from 6:00-6:11 p.m. ET.
[01/19/25 - 01:31 PM]
FOX Sports Delivers 33.6 Million Viewers for Commanders-Lions NFC Divisional Game
Saturday's NFC Divisional showdown is projected to peak at 35.7 million viewers from 9:30-9:45 PM ET.
[01/17/25 - 03:39 PM]
"Shifting Gears" Brings Tim Allen Back to ABC and Hulu in Style with 17 Million Total Audience to Date
"Shifting Gears" stood as ABC's strongest series debut in over six years - since 10/16/18 with "The Conners," and marks the most-watched ABC series premiere on streaming to date, based on views in its first seven days on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
[01/16/25 - 04:01 PM]
NBC and Peacock's 2024 Holiday Programming Reached 88 Million People from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was the #1 show of the holiday season.
[01/16/25 - 03:38 PM]
ABC Tuesday Dramas "Will Trent," "High Potential" and "The Rookie" Return with Stellar, Record-Setting Results
Both "Will Trent" and "The Rookie" achieved all-time streaming highs for their premiere episodes over seven days.

[01/16/25 - 01:45 PM]
Third Season of Peacock Original "The Traitors" Debuts as #1 Unscripted Series in the U.S. Across All Platforms
499 million minutes were consumed for the entire series for the week of January 6-12.
[01/15/25 - 02:35 PM]
TGL Presented by SoFi Match 2 on ESPN Draws Average of 1 Million Viewers, Up 9 Percent Over Match 1
With Tiger Woods making his playing debut, viewership peaked at 1.1 million from 8:30-8:45 p.m. ET and held steady in the 1 million range from 7:30 p.m. until past 9 p.m.
[01/14/25 - 12:31 PM]
Prime Video's First-Ever NFL Playoff Game Attracted the Most Concurrent Viewers Ever to the Service
Said news caps off a historic 2024-2025 campaign for the service.
[01/14/25 - 12:00 PM]
Netflix Top 10 Week of Jan. 6: "Squid Game" Season 2 Keeps Winning, While "Missing You" Doesn't Miss
"American Primeval" - the historical drama based on real-life events during the 1857 Utah War - arrived at the No. 2 spot with 10.4 million views.
[01/14/25 - 07:43 AM]
FOX Delivers Most-Watched Telecast of the Week with NFL Wild Card Game
The audience peaked with 39,510,000 viewers from 7:00-7:15 PM ET.
[01/13/25 - 04:05 PM]
ESPN's Presentations of College Football Playoff Semifinals at Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic and Capital One Orange Bowl Score Multi-Year Viewership Highs
The games averaged 20.6 million and 17.8 million viewers, respectively.
[01/10/25 - 08:31 AM]
Cleveland Cavaliers Victory Over Oklahoma City Thunder on ESPN Averaged 1.87 Million Viewers
Wednesday's coverage peaked at 2.5 million viewers.
[01/09/25 - 08:32 AM]
ESPN's College Football Bowl Viewership Reaches Record Highs for 2024-25 Season
The 33 non-College Football Playoff bowls averaged 2.7 million viewers, marking a 14 percent year-over-year increase and the largest audience since the 2019-20 season.
[01/09/25 - 07:00 AM]
WWE "RAW" Wrestles Up 4.9M Global Views for Netflix Debut
The inaugural event on Netflix averaged 2.6 million households (Live+SD) in the US, according to VideoAmp, which is 116% higher than "RAW's" average 2024 US audience of 1.2 million households, and higher than any other "Monday Night RAW" broadcast in the past five years.