The Real Housewives of Potomac Season 11 Opens to 2.2 Million Viewers
The Real Housewives of Potomac opened its eleventh season to 2.2 million total viewers across platforms in its first week, according to Deadline. That total adds together people who watched on Bravo, the TV channel, and on Peacock, the streaming service.
The premiere was the best opening episode the show has had in three years. It grew the audience by 14% across platforms compared with the Season 10 premiere. On Peacock, the episode ranks among the top five Real Housewives premieres ever.
The momentum held into the second episode. It drew 2 million viewers in seven days, up 23% on Season 10's second episode. Those figures come from the same Deadline report, which carries the numbers released by NBCUniversal, the company that owns Bravo and Peacock.
NBCUniversal also said the season has generated more than 39 million social media impressions across platforms so far. An impression counts each time a post appears on someone's screen, whether or not they click on it.
New episodes air on Sundays at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time on Bravo. Peacock adds each one the following day, so viewers who miss the live broadcast can catch up on the streaming service. The season features returning cast members Karen Huger, Gizelle Bryant and Ashley Darby.
The show is produced by Truly Original, a company within Banijay America, the US arm of the Banijay group of production companies. Behind every episode is a full production team, from camera crews to editors, who keep the weekly schedule running.
Ratings are one way of measuring how many people tune in. They do not show how long each viewer stayed, but they do give a clear picture of the audience's size and how it has changed from one season to the next. For this season, the numbers point to a larger audience than the one that watched the show's previous opening.
