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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I do always find US viewership weird. I mean... 18m is huge in the US, but its only 5.5% of the population. Meanwhile in the UK a bog standard midweek episode of Eastenders still hits 6m (9% of population) and big episodes hit 11m (16% of population).

In fact, 5.5% of UK population is only 3.5 million viewers which would be considered pretty dire for a big season premier.

I guess it's the difference between big "free telly" shows and cable?

Anyways, just something that's baffled me for a while, like other US shows getting 4 million and that being considered fine, when in a country with 325 million people it actually seems kind of awful .

I suppose it depends what percentage of the population are watching television at the time.