‘Tori & Dean’ Breathes Life Into Oxygen Ratings

Next-To-Last Episode Was Cable's Most-Watched Show Among Women 18-49

By Larry Barrett -- Multichannel News, 8/6/2008 12:26:00 PM EDT

Tori Spelling’s reality show has been ratings gold for Oxygen this summer. Tuesday night’s penultimate episode of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood’s second season drew 1.4 million total viewers, making it the most-watched telecast in the network’s 10-year history.

The episode, which saw the former Beverly Hills 90210 star give birth to her second child, Stella Doreen McDermott, was the most-watched cable program in its timeslot among women 18-49 with 764,000 women viewers.

Its total viewers rose 44% from last week’s episode, to 1.4 million viewers. Of this group, 459,000 women 18-34 tuned in, up 53% from last week’s episode.

In addition, Oxygen.com saw its most trafficked day ever Tuesday, bringing in 1.1 million page views. Video streams for the Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood Web site totaled 3.2 million in the week leading up to last night’s episode. The site has logged over 15 million page views since the season premiere.

The second-season finale will air Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 10 p.m. ET.

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Love this show. Like a breath of fresh air!!! When will the next season start?

DIANE MCCUNE - 8/23/2008 11:00:00 AM EDT
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I am a BIG Oxygen fan. I love Tori & Dean. I congratulate them on their beautiful two son's and princess. I will look forward to next season.

Aurora Aguilar - 8/21/2008 6:01:00 PM EDT
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I love Tori & Dean...They are so "real" its nice to see they haven't gone all "Hollywood". I'm also very impressed by all the wonderful things they do for charities. Plus you can really tell how much they truly love each other. I really enjoy watching there show every week and I hope they continue.

Jenn Baker - 8/13/2008 2:58:00 PM EDT
I am impressed with Tori - and the way she has constructed a full, rich life.

Greg - 8/13/2008 12:48:00 PM EDT
We were impressed with the different celebrity characters they imitated. Especially the " Lucy and Ricky characters."

Great job, great season.

Thanks

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My wife and I look forward to Tuesday nights, Tori and Dean have great chemistry and are fun to watch. We are happy for their success and can''t wait until next season''s new episodes.
We were impressed with the different celebrity characters they imitated. Especially the " Lucy and Ricky characters."

Great job, great season.

Thanks

Phillip Rodriguez - 8/13/2008 11:51:00 AM EDT

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