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PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy.
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“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