Wednesday’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter: heavyweights – the 10th of the season – scored a 1.76 HH rating for an average audience of 2.4 million viewers. The show also tallied a 2.9 in M18-34 and 2.5 in M18-49.
Episode 10 actually represents a slight increase in the ratings from the previous, and bucks the trend of what was six straight weeks of ratings decline since episode 3 – featuring Kimbo Slice and Roy Nelson – did a huge 3.7 HH and 5.3 million viewers. DVR playback would later go on to push those ratings beyond the 4.0 mark.
Here’s a look at the show thus far:
| TUF 10 | Overall | M18-34 | M18-49 | |
| Episode 1 | 2.9 | 5.3 | 4.3 | |
| Episode 2 | 2.2 | 4.2 | 3.2 | |
| Episode 3 | 3.7 | 6.9 | 5.4 | |
| Episode 4 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 2.4 | |
| Episode 5 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 2.9 | |
| Episode 6 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 2.8 | |
| Episode 7 | 1.9 | 3.6 | 2.8 | |
| Episode 8 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 2.6 | |
| Episode 9 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 2.6 | |
| Episode 10 | 1.76 | 2.9 | 2.5 |
| Season Ave. | 2.246 | 3.96 | 3.15 |
| Season Med. | 2.2 | 3.6 | 2.8 |
I guess the live WEC event didn’t affect this rating?
Jason:
More like TUF affected the WEC ratings.