'True Blood' Season 4 premiere matches series highs
HBO's vampire soap improves slightly from last summer's premiere
'True Blood' star Deborah Ann Woll
Credit: HBO
"True Blood" is back and while it may not be bigger than ever, the vampire drama is at least as big as ever for HBO.
Sunday (June 26) night's fourth season premiere of "True Blood" averaged 5.4 million viewers for HBO. The network is boasting that that audience matches the series high set late last season.
After cresting and hitting ratings records practically every week during its second season, "True Blood" has settled into one of the steadiest audiences on TV, exhibiting remarkably little rising or falling between individual episodes.
Case in point? Sunday's episode was flat from the highest rated episode of last season and although it was up from last summer's Season Three premiere, the total growth? Six percent. That's steady.
The "True Blood" premiere added another million viewers tuning in for its 11 p.m. encore, bringing the total audience to 6.4 million viewers for premiere night.
The season's second "True Blood" episode is already available on the HBO Go, for fans who happen to have access to that streaming service. We'll see if that leads to any fluctuation in ratings for that hour.
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Login or create a HitFix account Login Signuptigger500 Dan - you really love Deborah. lol. I ain't mad at cha tho
June 28, 2011 at 4:03PM EST Reply to Commentdan I do, indeed, play favorites...
June 28, 2011 at 4:20PM EST-Daniel
rowan729 Nothing wrong with favorites on a show with this good-looking of a cast! Almost makes up for the other nonsense....
June 28, 2011 at 4:52PM EST Reply to CommentI'm surprised these ratings didn't drop from last year-the fans sure seemed to be in uproar after that mess. We'll have to see if this holds up for the entire season.