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WWE NEWS: Tough Enough ratings are in - modest premiere topped by follow-up shows, plus Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings

Jun 24, 2015 - 3:56:03 PM

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By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

Tough Enough Audience Tracking

- June 23 (Week 1): The season premiere of "Tough Enough" scored a 0.87 rating Tuesday night on USA Network.

The show drew a modest 1.209 million viewers, which represents about one-third of what the first hour of Raw averages on Monday nights in the same 8:00 p.m. EST timeslot.

Later in USA's prime time window, Tough Enough was topped by "Chrisley Knows Best," which drew 1.398 million viewers.

The bright spot is Tough Enough out-performed "Modern Family" re-runs that previously held the timeslot.

But, being on a separate night of the week means Tough Enough opened way behind the previous version when Steve Austin hosted. Austin's season in 2011, which was slotted in the 8:00 p.m. hour on Monday nights, drew between a 1.6 and 2.0 rating most weeks.

- SOCIAL MEDIA: Tough Enough ranked #3 among series & specials in Nielsen's Twitter TV Ratings on Tuesday night.

TE trailed "Pretty Little Liars" on ABC and Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show' on NBC. WWE's reality competition show was ahead of "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon" and "Real Housewives of New York City."

If compared to one-off sports programming, TE would have tied for fourth place with Women's World Cup coverage, while trailing two MLB games and the College World Series.

The numbers break down: 480,000 unique Twitter audience and 1,959 total impressions.