The series premiere, "Bop Gun", drew unusually large viewership numbers due to a guest appearance by Robin Williams, but the subsequent episodes had dropped in the ratings, making the viewership of "A Many Splendored Thing" particularly important for the future of the series.
Mixing your views with extra likes, comments and subscriptions: this will make the growth in viewership seem more natural.
Trump's camp will likely claim responsibility for last night's debate's lower ratings to make the case that his absence caused the drop in viewership.
The episode's ratings and viewership made the series the number one non-sports program among viewers and young adults on Sunday nights.
It is clear the viewership of these e-cigarette videos is global.
During another, he gleefully tells his sister about a new viral video that is "evidence of precisely the kind of disgusting, liberal, metro butt-love that makes our viewership angry enough to buy pharmaceuticals".
It may bring you in at an earlier-than-usual stage in the process, but it's fundamentally the same as a TV network judging what shows to keep making by viewership, demographic analysis and buzz.
Despite the episode's eponymous cliffhanger ending, supposedly leading into a fifth season, it was anticipated that Chuck would be cancelled after the fourth season for declining viewership, making "Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger" the de facto series finale.
She is eager to let audiences off the hook: in her account, "American Idol" (which she finds mean-spirited) was a success because energetic cross-promotion "guaranteed ratings gold," and "Survivor" was a success "largely because the endless, from-all-corners buzz made viewership seem almost like a cultural imperative".
ON LOCATION: Where the cameras roll The football overrun gave CBS a big boost in prime-time viewership, to make it the most-watched major network Sunday night.
