UPDATED: “Yellowstone” rode off into the sundown on a rankings high-note.
The sequence finale of the Paramount Network neo-Western drama drew 11.4 million viewers on Sunday night time alone, in accordance with VideoAmp knowledge launched by Paramount. The firm claims that makes it the most-watched episode in sequence historical past, with the finale airing on each Paramount Network and CMT.
Paramount Global is just not at the moment utilizing Nielsen knowledge given the actual fact the contract between the 2 firms expired in September. Talks stay ongoing.
According to Nielsen knowledge for Sunday night time reviewed by Variety, the episode drew roughly 7.367 million viewers on Paramount Network and 713,000 extra on CMT for a complete of 8.08 million. The Paramount Network viewership alone was sufficient to make “Yellowstone” far and away the most-watched scripted present of the night time throughout broadcast and cable.
“Yellowstone” has lengthy been a rankings powerhouse for Paramount Network and the second half of the present’s fifth and ultimate season has been no exception. Paramount beforehand reported through VideoAmp that the premiere of Season 5B attracted 16.4 million viewers throughout Paramount Network, CBS, and varied different Paramount-owned cable networks that simulcast the episode in addition to encore airings. Thus, the declare that the finale was the most-watched episode refers simply to episodes airing on Paramount Network (and now CMT) on a Live+Same Day foundation with out together with encores and the like, and likewise going off of VideoAmp numbers, with previous rankings information for the present coming from Nielsen knowledge.
There had been some query about whether or not or not the finale airing on Sunday was the season finale or sequence finale, however “Yellowstone” star Kelly Reilly took to social media forward of the episode airing to substantiate that it was in actual fact the top of the sequence.
“Hi, I’m so deep into one other position in the intervening time about one other land value preventing for within the UK,” Reilly wrote. “But throughout the pond, the finale is occurring tonight of the present. Whatever the long run holds that is the ending of the present we have now been making for the previous 7 years.”
The finale noticed one more main character dying, but in addition arrange the long-rumored spinoff sequence centered on Rip (Cole Hauser) and Beth (Reilly). Variety‘s full recap of the episode may be learn right here.
