8/28 “Ballers” TV viewership down 23 percent to series low

“The Rock” Dwayne Johnson’s “Ballers” HBO show gained 100,000 viewers last week against Summerslam. However, the latest episode fell 300,000 viewers against the VMAs, capturing Ballers’s TV audience being more of a mainstream TV fanbase than a wrestling audience.

Ballers Viewership Tracking

August 28: Week 7 of “Ballers” drew 1.014 million viewers, reports TVBytheNumbers.com, down more than 300,000 viewers (23 percent) from last week’s audience.

It was a season and series low for Ballers on a competitive Sunday night.

Ballers has now averaged 1.260 million viewers in Season 2, down 28 percent from the first seven weeks of Season 1 last summer.

Season 2 Viewership Trend

• July 17: 1.585 million first-run viewers
• July 24: 1.278 million
• July 31: 1.266 million
• Aug. 7: 1.146 million
• Aug. 14: 1.210 million
• Aug. 21: 1.324 million
• Aug. 28: 1.014 million