Friday, January 10, 2025

Ratings: “Yellowstone” Increases Audience by 3%, But Drops Twice That in Younger Viewers

This past Sunday’s episode of “Yellowstone” was a bit of a non starter in many ways.

Plot wise, the show was quite dull and felt padded out to fill its time slot. With only two more episodes before the finale, “Yellowstone” offered the death — by horse kicking — of a minor character.

Not much else happened, although the show pointed to Jamie (Wes Bentley) getting his own finale for all his evil deeds.

Total ratings were up 3.15% to a lackluster 6.5 million.

But in the key demo between 18 and 49, viewers tuned out in droves. That number fell 6.6% to just 850,000 of the audience.

This Sunday brings the penultimate episode before the series ends on December 15th. Then a bunch of “Yellowstone” sequels, prequels, et all will kick into place all without Kevin Costner. Fans are hoping the main show will continue but it’s unlikely since everyone is getting killed off.

How about a comedy spin off called “Beth”? Just kidding!

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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