PREACHER Viewership Rises For Season Finale

PREACHER Viewership Rises For Season Finale

While the show has scored so-so ratings, it has been a big hit for AMC. Sunday's episode also scored high with audiences with it having higher numbers than last week's episode...

By DCMickeus - Aug 02, 2016 03:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Preacher
Source: Deadline.com
This week's Preacher delivered one of the most explosive and exciting episodes of the season. While viewership declined halfway through the show's run it seems people are back and hungry for more Preacher. The finale, Call and Response, received 1.722 million viewers, with 765,000 among 18-49 demographic.

That's higher than last week's episode, and while not big numbers, they're pretty good for AMC because while the network has a plethora of originals, most of them decline and barely score a million (and more) viewers, so judging by that, Preacher is most definitely a big success. For those unaware, Preacher has been renewed for a second season premiering in 2017.

Fulfilling a promise to his deceased father, one-time outlaw Jesse Custer returns home to West Texas to take over his dad's church. Jesse's mission, however, becomes twisted when his body is overcome by a cryptic force that unleashes within him a highly unconventional power. Together with hell-raising ex-girlfriend Tulip and Irish vagabond Cassidy, the preacher-in-training embarks on a journey to find God in a world inhabited by holy, hellish, and everything-in-between characters. The darkly comedic "Preacher" is based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's popular 1990s comic book franchise of the same name. Executive producers include Sam Catlin ("Breaking Bad"), and Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg ("Superbad," "Neighbors").

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thor2273
thor2273 - 8/2/2016, 4:04 PM
Awesome show. Glad to see the ratings rise a little bit.
vision1546
vision1546 - 8/2/2016, 6:33 PM
Is this show good? Just wondering?
SethBullock
SethBullock - 8/3/2016, 12:30 AM
I could give this show a pass if it was an original story, but I just hate how they ruined the opportunity to faithfully adapt such a great comic book.

They changed the story, the characters, the tone, the pace, just everything, and I still don't understand why they did it, the comic book could have been easily adapted following the original stuff and just changing a couple of things that maybe could be too much for AMC, but they just did something completely different and, sadly, far from being better.

I've been waiting for a "Preacher" film or tv show since I bought the comics back in the 90s, I thought it was better suited for tv, and I wish it had been adapted by HBO, Cinemax or any other network that could handle its more graphic and controversial content, but after so much time I finally get a "Preacher" show and it's far from being what it should be, a more faithful adaptation with the right people behind it would have become one of the greatest things on tv right now, however I'm sure that a lot of people left this show after just a couple of episodes.

Like I said in a previous article, "Banshee" was a much better "Preacher" show than this, I wish the people that made that show would have adapted this for Cinemax.
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