Much Viewer Love For 'Big Love' Finale

Concluder Marks Third-Season's Top Nielsen Performance

Thomas Umstead -- Multichannel News, 3/24/2009 5:20:06 PM

The March 22 third-season finale of Home Box Office's polygamy series Big Love drew its biggest audience of the season, averaging 2.7 million viewers.

The finale's audience was up 135% compared to the 1.2 million the show garnered in its February season premiere. Not including the finale, the third season of Big Love, which stars Bill Paxton, averaged over 6 million viewers per episode in gross audience (replays, DVR and HBO on Demand), according to Nielsen Media Research.

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