Ozzy Tops Cable Ratings
By Multi Channel News Staff -- Multichannel News, 4/17/2002 2:00:00 PM
MTV: Music Television reality series The Osbournes was basic cable's top-rated programming last week in households and three key adult-demographic measurements.
The April 9 installment of the show about the trials and travails of the former Black Sabbath frontman's dysfunctional family posted a 5.2 household average, according to a Turner Entertainment Research analysis of Nielsen Media Research data.
Ozzy and brood topped TNN's coverage of World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. fare (a 5.0 April 8) and Lifetime Television's original movie, We Were the Mulvaneys (a 4.7 April 8).
The Osbournes also scored highest among all basic-cable shows among adults 18 through 34 (3.99 million), 18 through 49 (5.08 million) and 25 through 54 (3.49 million).
Whether there will be a second season of The Osbournes is debatable at this point.
An MTV spokesman said the network is currently in negotiations to renew the series. However, there appear to be hang-ups over whether the teen-age children want the cameras to be in the home for another season of tapings, where the show would be filmed (the family's farm house in England, versus their Beverly Hills home) and a significant increase in compensation.
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