NON SPOILERS: Twin Peaks: Season 3 on Showtime Thread

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To be clear: Nothing reaches the kind of audience TP did in 1990 with four networks and no streaming.
AnotherBlueRoseCase wrote:The Return is clearly guaranteed a future audience among stoners and other drug users.
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Solitude wrote:Someone here once or twice compared The Return to a series. All i can remember is that the episodes lasted like 90 minutes (they may have been 13) and that they were extremely slow paced. Can someone help me find out which series was?
I don't see the comparison to Out 1 myself- if you think The Return is slowly paced then Out 1 would send you around the bend. It's an excellent series though- but it's a really hardcore viewing experience- but also a pinnacle one.
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N. Needleman wrote:To be clear: Nothing reaches the kind of audience TP did in 1990 with four networks and no streaming.
True absolutely true.

And to be honest, I am so glad that Lynch and Frost are not pandering to 'ratings'. They are telling the story they wanted to tell.

It would be lovely if more people would watch, but not at the expense of watering down the script in order to pander to the tastes of the masses.
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mtwentz wrote:
N. Needleman wrote:To be clear: Nothing reaches the kind of audience TP did in 1990 with four networks and no streaming.
True absolutely true.

And to be honest, I am so glad that Lynch and Frost are not pandering to 'ratings'. They are telling the story they wanted to tell.

It would be lovely if more people would watch, but not at the expense of watering down the script in order to pander to the tastes of the masses.
Plus I don't have the feeling they are all that bad when streaming is factored in. And they have steadily climbed. They aren't dropping. So people that are committed are committed and they're slowly bringing others in.
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If it were dropped all at once a-la Stranger Things you'd probably see higher ratings across the board. Airing how it is, they're gonna continuously climb and only get higher after it has completed airing imo.
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SpookyDollhouse wrote:If it were dropped all at once a-la Stranger Things you'd probably see higher ratings across the board. Airing how it is, they're gonna continuously climb and only get higher after it has completed airing imo.
Maybe but we would never know because streaming providers don't usually release data in how many households are streaming which shows.

And technically, live TV ratings would fall precipitously if everything were dropped at once :-)
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The ratings are low, but the fact that they're climbing is a good sign. It's kind of the opposite of the original Twin Peaks that started off very strong and gradually eroded over time, with Episode 27 scoring the lowest ratings of all, and that was the last one to air in its usual time slot (the actual series finale got a bump in viewers because it aired at a different time and was promoted as a 'movie event').

I would expect the viewers to climb even more over the next few weeks but there's bound to be a dropoff in live viewership after GAME OF THRONES premieres on 7/16.
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The Twin Peaks Ratings Are Actually Good
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/th ... .gqWQ8J4zD
That's how the network knows that its most popular shows are Shameless (an average of 6.4 million viewers for its most recent season) and Homeland (6 million), and that Twin Peaks is performing better than Masters of Sex, House of Lies, and Episodes, all of which lasted multiple seasons on Showtime.
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The Jumping Man wrote:
The Twin Peaks Ratings Are Actually Good
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/th ... .gqWQ8J4zD
That's how the network knows that its most popular shows are Shameless (an average of 6.4 million viewers for its most recent season) and Homeland (6 million), and that Twin Peaks is performing better than Masters of Sex, House of Lies, and Episodes, all of which lasted multiple seasons on Showtime.
The answer seems to be that Twin Peaks: The Return may actually be the most illustrative example through which we can quantify how television viewing is changing. Because, according to Showtime's metrics, 3.1 million viewers have watched the May 21 premiere, a number that will continue to grow as viewers decide to catch up on or binge the show. Through its first two weeks (Parts 1–4), Twin Peaks has averaged 2.5 million viewers across all platforms.
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The Jumping Man wrote:
The Twin Peaks Ratings Are Actually Good
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/th ... .gqWQ8J4zD
That's how the network knows that its most popular shows are Shameless (an average of 6.4 million viewers for its most recent season) and Homeland (6 million), and that Twin Peaks is performing better than Masters of Sex, House of Lies, and Episodes, all of which lasted multiple seasons on Showtime.
This is definitely good news!

I am a classic example- I would never get cable TV and thus never have Showtime, so I got the Showtime app. And even after Twin Peaks completely airs, they may have a loyal customer for a long time to come (I really enjoy that Showtime does not cut off the end credits like Netflix and other channels).
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mtwentz wrote:
I am a classic example- I would never get cable TV and thus never have Showtime, so I got the Showtime app. And even after Twin Peaks completely airs, they may have a loyal customer for a long time to come (I really enjoy that Showtime does not cut off the end credits like Netflix and other channels).
This is a great point. And even people that are only interested Showtime for Twin Peaks might keep their subscriptions active for a few months after the finale as it will likely be the only place you'll be able to see the series, and I foresee a lot of repeat viewings/binge-watching. I can't imagine the DVD/Blu-ray will come out before holiday season.
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I hope they're right with their assumption and Kyle MacLachlan will get an Emmy for it.
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I would say that Twin Peaks has about 275,000 live viewers, and at least 500,000 streamers, all in the US. But you also have to remember that the show has a huge international following. Not sure how many you would add to the total but I wonder if it's about 3 million worldwide watching every week. With all of that, I hope Showtime throws more money at DKL to do another season of TP or even something else.
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Poltergeist27 wrote:I would say that Twin Peaks has about 275,000 live viewers, and at least 500,000 streamers, all in the US. But you also have to remember that the show has a huge international following. Not sure how many you would add to the total but I wonder if it's about 3 million worldwide watching every week. With all of that, I hope Showtime throws more money at DKL to do another season of TP or even something else.

One example of the worldwide audience is that in scandinavia the show is not aired but available exclusively for streaming on HBO Nordic. Here you can see their current top 10 of the most watched shows on the HBO platform. If nothing else it's interesting to see it outperforming other buzz shows like "Fargo" and "Big Little Lies". "The Handmaid's Tale" has gotten glowing reviews in mainstream media outlets here and has been available for binge-viewing all along, probably helping that show reach the top spot. Would love to see how the show is performing in other parts of the world.

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