1.8 Million People Watch "Ultimate Fighter" Debut

[Oddessa]

1.8 Million People Watch "Ultimate Fighter" Debut

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 by Josh Gross (joshg@sherdog.com)
Overnight ratings are in for the premiere episode of Spike TV's "Ultimate Fighter." The Reality Show debuted with a 1.5 rating Monday night, translating to roughly 1.8 million viewers, Sherdog.com was told by sources within Zuffa, the Las Vegas-based promoter of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

With a relatively weak lead-in from WWE's RAW, which drew a lower-than-usual 3.0 -- due possibly to the Martin Luther King holiday -- and no national PR campaign for the "Ultimate Fighter" debut, these numbers appear to be very solid, and executives at both Spike TV and Zuffa are said to be ecstatic.

[hockeystl]

Sheeet. I missed it.

Just checked spiketv.com and found this for upcoming episodes:

Fri, January 21 @ 12:00 AM
Sat, January 22 @ 7:00 PM
Sun, January 23 @ 5:00 PM
Mon, January 24 @ 11:00 PM
Fri, January 28 @ 12:00 AM
Sat, January 29 @ 7:00 PM
Sun, January 30 @ 5:00 PM

[Buck Swope]

Take violent guys
Feed them alcohol
See what happens

GREAT TV ON SPIKE RIGHT NOW

[surfin joe]

Yeah, lol.
It's a refreshing change from "The Real World", where sexually promiscuous twenty-somethings argue and bitch over who ate their last egg in the fridge but later get drunk and make up by screwing each other off camera. (then repeat this chain of events). Yep, that's the real world alright [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

"it's time to find out what happens when people stop being polite... and start beating the shit out of each other" [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] I love that line.