Catfish Season 2 Premiere Tops Cable TV Ratings
The season two debut of MTV’s hit docu-series “Catfish: The TV Show” garnered a 2.2 rating among P12-34 making it the #1 cable telecast of the day and the #2 telecast of the day across all TV in the key P12-34 demo. Overall, the episode drew 2.5 million total viewers.
Additionally, the series scored a 2.1 rating among teens and a 3.2 among female teens, making it the show’s highest ratings ever within each demo.
“Catfish: The TV Show” was also the most social program on television yesterday and the most social episode of the series to date, according to Social Guide. In total, the show generated approximately 800,000 mentions on Twitterover the course of the day and had 15 trending topics during the premiere episode.
Next week’s episode, airing on Tuesday, July 2, at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, features “Anthony and Marq,” and tells the story of an Iraq veteran captivated by a sensitive mystery man.
Viewers can go to MTV.com for sneak peeks of the show including bonus and extended scenes, plus exclusive interviews. For even more information and exclusive content, fans can “like” the “Catfish: The TV Show” Facebook page at facebook.com/MTVcatfish or follow the show on Twitter @CatfishMTV.
“Catfish: The TV Show” is produced by RelativityREAL and Catfish Picture Company LLC for MTV with RelativityREAL’s Tom Forman, Brad Bishop, Julie Link Steffens serving as executive producers alongside David Metzler, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost, Nev Schulman, Andrew Jarecki and Mark Smerling. Marshall Eisen, Nomi Ernst Leidner, and Dave Sirulnick are Executive Producers for MTV. RelativityREAL’s Jonathan Karshis is Co-Executive producer. Kelly Ostreicher is Supervising Producer, MTV. Jonathan Mussman is Executive in Charge, MTV.