‘Vanderpump Rules’ viewers did No The Plunge Out of the Season 10 Finale: Ratings for the May 17 episode for the Bravo show reached a series high.
The episode, which featured the fallout of #Scandalous, drew a combined audience of 4.1 million viewers on Bravo, On-Demand and The Washington Post. peacock stage within three days. Of that viewership, 2.4 million were in Bravo’s target audience of 18 to 49 years old, reaching another series high.
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Those “Vanderpump Rules” ratings also fueled Andy Cohen’s Bravo talk show “Watch What Happens Live,” which featured the first post of a #scandalous interview with “Vanderpump Rules” star Ariana Madix. In delayed viewing, a total of 2.2 million viewers clocked in on the platform to watch Maddix.
Final ratings for “Vanderpump Rules” eclipsed those for last week’s episode, which achieved a series high of 3.3 million total viewers watching across platforms, 1.9 million of whom were in Bravo’s target 18 to 49 demographic. .
After two fallow seasons, the already resurgent “Vanderpump Rules” Season 10 was fueled by a scandal that came to light after filming for the show was dubbed #Scandalous. A hoax hatchet hatched by Tom Sandoval and Raquel Lewis that led to the break-up of Sandoval and his longtime partner Ariana Madix came to light on March 3.
in one An in-depth story about last week’s “Vanderpump Rules”, Diversity spoke with the show’s executive producer Alex Baskin about how this episode — filmed on the fly in post-production by Maddix on March 2 — came into being.
“For us to be able to go to the network and say, ‘You guys, this is a moment’ — of course, we didn’t know what it would become, but we knew we needed to capture it,” Baskin said. he said . “They got us all the necessary approvals and clearances so that we could tell the story in real time. So what you are watching is pure truth.
Baskin also detailed how the show’s three reunion episodes, which begin May 24, were filmed even though Lewis filed a restraining order against fellow cast member Shayna Shay.
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