Ratings Report: ‘East New York’ keeps its audience coming back, ‘Let the Right One In’ tries to recover from its lackluster start

Broadcast: While its younger viewership fluctuates, CBS’s newest cop drama, East New York, continues to draw strong overall viewership. The inaugural season’s fourth episode aired on Oct. 23 and earned a 0.37 rating with adults 18-49 (A18-49) and drew 5.29 million total viewers. Episode 5 aired on Oct. 30 and garnered a 0.49 A18-49 rating and counted  5.84 million total viewers. The series stars Amanda Warren as the recently promoted Brooklyn police captain, Regina Haywood, who leads a team that includes Kevin Rankin (Dallas Buyers Club, Breaking Bad) and Elizabeth Rodriguez (Logan, Orange Is the New Black) as Detectives Tommy Killian and Crystal Morales. Richard Kind (Inside Out, The Goldbergs) plays Captain Stan Yenko and procedural veteran Jimmy Smits (NYPD Blue, The West Wing) portrays Assistant Chief John Suarez. East New York offers an evolved take on the police procedural by centering its focus on Deputy Inspector Haywood who val who believes serving the community means being a part of it. 

William M. Finkelstein (L.A. Law, NYPD Blue) and Mike Flynn (Rush, Queen Sugar) created the hour-long crime drama and both write and executive produce for the show. The cast includes Olivia Luccardi (It Follows, Money Monster), Level Schley (Grown-ish, A Man Called Otto), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Billions, The Quad), and CS Lee (Dexter, Chicago Med). East New York airs on Sunday nights at 8:00 PM EST/PST on CBS.

Cable: Showtime’s new hour-long vampire drama, Let the Right One In, is off to a slow start since its Oct. 9 premiere earned a 0.02 A18-49 rating and a total viewer count of just over 50,000. The show witnessed an uptick in overall viewership when its third episode drew nearly 900,000 audience members, although the same installment proved unpopular with younger audiences, earning a 0.01 A18-49 rating. This positive trend in overall engagement collapsed in on itself upon the airing of the fourth episode on Oct. 30, which earned a 0.01 A18-49 rating and drew around 73,000 viewers in total. With episode 3’s viewership measurements landing so much higher than any of the other installments, it’s presumable the major disparity between viewers may actually be due to a editorial error at SpoilerTV, the online television ratings archive and database used in this article as a data source. 

 Let the Right One In is an adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s 2004 novel of the same name and stars Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls, The Princess and the Frog) as a New York City detective investigating a series of violent attacks. Demian Bichir (The Hateful Eight, A Better Life) also leads the cast as Mark Kane, a father desperately searching to cure the murderous vampirism of his daughter, Eleanor, played by Madison Taylor Baez (Selena: The Series, The Tooth Racket). 

The series was created by Andrew Hinderaker (Away, Penny Dreadful) who serves as showrunner. Rose and Bichir lead the cast which includes Grace Gummer (American Horror Story, Mr. Robot), Ian Foreman (Ordinary Joe, The Holiday Switch), Nick Stahl (Fear the Walking Dead, Sin City), Kevin Carroll (Blindspotting, Being John Malkovich), Jacob Buster (Colony, Suits), Zeljko Ivanek (Argo, Madam Secretary), and Jimmie Saito (Sweetbitter, 2 Broke Girls). Let the Right One In airs on Showtime at 7:00/10:00 PM EST/PST. 

Streaming: A month out from the debut of its third season, Hulu’s Ramy continues to delight fans. While critics still remain favorable to the show on the whole, the 89% critic approval rating of Season 3 on Rotten Tomato falls noticeably under the ‘certified fresh’ success of seasons past. The show’s first season has a 98% critical rating and its second season boasts a 95%. On the other hand, the half-hour comedy’s audience score reached an all-time high of 92% during Season 3, up from Season 2’s 87%. The show’s third season boasts ten episodes. Ramy has endeared itself to audiences on the streaming platform by using humor to explore the challenges faced by its Egyptian-American lead, Ramy Hassan, as he navigates the social and cultural pressures that shape his identity. Comedian Ramy Youssef stars in the self-titled series which he created along with writer-producers Ryan Welch (On the Count of Three, Saturday Night Live) and Ari Katcher (The Carmichael Show, On the Count of Three). Youssef is joined in the cast by fellow comedian Mohammed Amer (Black Adam, Americanish) who recently helmed the first season of his own half-hour sitcom on Netflix, the critically acclaimed Mo. The cast also includes Amr Waked (Lucy, Marco Polo), Dave Merheje (Mr. D, Humour Resources), Hiam Abbass (Succession, Blade Runner 2049), Laith Nakli (12 Strong, The Long Road Home), and May Calamawy (Moon Knight, The Long Road Home). Ramy is available to stream on Hulu.

International: RCN Televisión’s Til Money Do Us Part held onto its number one spot on Netflix’s top ten non-English TV show chart for the second week in a row since its 88-episode long first season became available on the popular streaming platform. In its first week at the top from Oct 17-23, the Colombian series clocked in 21.87 million hour in global viewership. The week of Oct 24-30 racked up even more engagement, measuring 51.49 million hours in worldwide viewership. Notably, the series has yet to make its Netflix US debut. Til Money Do Us Part stars Carmen Villalobos (Sin Senos No Hay Paraíso, El Senor de los Cielos) as wealthy business executive Alejandra Maldonado and Sebastian Martinez (Pa’ Quererte, Rosario Tijeras) as poor salesman Rafael Mendez, two strangers whose lives are thrust together following a car accident. Yalile Giordanelli serves as executive producer for the show. Olga Lucia Rodríguez (La Diva, Quest for Happiness), Israel Sánchez (Corazones Blindados, 3 Milagros) Miguel Daza (3 Milagros, El inutil) boast directing credits. Maldanado and Martinez are joined in the cast by Gregorio Pernia (El Final del Paraíso, Sin Senos No Hay Paraíso) ), Juliette Pardau (Natalia. Crimen y Castigo., Pa’ Quererte), Jose Daniel Cristancho (Bolívar: Una lucha admirable, Los Briceno, una familia todo terre) Michelle Rouillard (Bolívar: Una lucha admirable, Sin Senos No Hay Paraíso), Marcela Benjumea (The Hidden Face, With the Lips Closed), Alejandra Avila (Pa’ Quererte, Nadie Me Quita Lo Bailao).