Lucha Underground Viewership Sets An All-Time Record

Credit: Nielsen Media Research

UPDATE: Ratings Intel has posted a new look at Lucha Underground’s viewership numbers. The site reports that the first four episodes averaged 27,000 viewers, starting out okay and jumping with the second episode, but dropping in the next two. Despite the low numbers, the show is actually higher than the network average of 25,000 viewers.

The audience for the show has also been leaning older. The first episode had an average viewing age of 48.9 years old, going to 53 years old for the fourth episode on November 19th. This is actually normal; a show’s audience does tend to quickly rise in average age as younger audiences tend to abandon shows earlier on.

Obviously these numbers don’t include the last few weeks which, as we noted in the original post, had been dropping before the sharp spike this week.

ORIGINAL: Wednesday’s episode of Lucha Underground was the highest yet for the show, drawing 34,000 viewers for the El Rey Network. That’s up over twice the number of the 16,000 that the previous week’s show and nearly seven times the 5,000 that the show during Thanksgiving week had.

Obviously this is good news for the promotion, especially in light of reports this week that the show was in financial trouble.

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