MMA Junkie reports that episode 9 of TUF 14 received an average of 1.4 million viewers. It scored an overall 1.1 household rating, as well as a 1.44 rating among men ages 18-49 and a 1.71 among men 18-34.
Episode 1: 1.5 million
Episode 2: 1.6 million
Episode 3: 1.3 million
Episode 4: 1.5 million
Episode 5: 1.5 million
Episode 6: 1.6 million
Episode 7: 1.5 million
Episode 8: 1.4 million
Episode 9: 1.4 million
Payout Perspective:
This week’s episode included the customary “coach’s challenge” which involved skeeball at the Ghost Bar. I frankly thought it was one of the weaker coach’s challenges until Bisping fell off the table. It would not have been funny if he would have hurt himself and would have had to pull out of the Dec. 3rd fight with Miller. A slight decrease in the last couple weeks but the ratings have been overall consistent.
It was actually air hockey not skeeball and it did not look like it took place in a bar.
I am looking forward to seeing what FX has in store other than the live fights (good idea) to freshen up the concept. I think two fights per show would be great as those seem to be the episodes which pop with the viewers. Maybe a live one to start and a liove one to end with the normal stuff sans pranks in the middle> This woul take some fancy editing to be prepared for the varying time allocations depending on the time for the first fight to end.
Assassin,
Corrected skeeball from air hockey although I foresee a skeeball challenge in upcoming seasons. :-). They were outside of Ghost Bar at the Palms. I agree with the concept of two fights per episode. I think the problem is running out of interesting filler in between for a complete season.