Ratings Review: TURN (Season Two)

For season two, AMC tweaked the name of TURN, adding the subtitle WASHINGTON'S SPIES, to help better describe the series and help it score better ratings. Unfortunately, this did not help at all.

Unlike last season, which every episode drew over one million viewers, season two failed to even come close to that total. Its highest rated episode was the season finale, at just 930,000. it is a shame that it draws so poorly, because it really is a great series to watch.

For the season, TURN: WASHINGTON'S SPIES averaged 780,000 viewers and a 0.2 rating in Adults 18-49, for the Live+SD ratings. For the live+7 ratings, viewership would double (1.6 million), and the A18-49 demo would go even higher (0.5).

There have been series that have been renewed with worse ratings, but I do not expect AMC to give the series another ten episode order. Best case, it gets two to four hours to wrap up the story lines.

Turn (Mondays at 9 p.m., on AMC)

Date	Viewers*	A18-49	L+3	L+7
04/13/15	0.83	0.2
04/13/15	0.83	0.2		1.60 (0.4)
04/20/15	0.87	0.2		1.63 (0.5)
04/27/15	0.59	0.2
05/04/15	0.63	0.2		1.54 (0.5)
05/11/15	0.74	0.2
05/18/15	0.76	0.2	1.46 (0.5)	1.59 (0.6)
05/25/15	0.72	0.2	(0.5)
06/01/15	0.88	0.2	1.44 (0.4)	1.60 (0.5)
06/08/15	0.93	0.3	1.61	1.74 (0.6)

* - in millions