ATLANTA, May 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first-time
ever, Bounce's hit drama series Saints & Sinners was the
#1 most-watched program in all of television, beating CBS, FOX and
NBC and all ad-supported cable and pay networks on
Sunday night May 6, in the
delivery of the Bounce target audience of African Americans
(P25-54) between 9:00-10:00 p.m.
(ET).
Saints & Sinners beat such shows as NCIS:
Los Angeles on CBS, Family
Guy on Fox, Fear The Walking Dead on AMC and
Westworld on HBO. Saints & Sinners was a close
second in all of television Sunday night behind only NCIS:
Los Angeles in the delivery of
African-American Households and total AA viewers.
The third season of Saints & Sinners continues to
roll along with Sunday night becoming the
fifth consecutive week the show has delivered over half
a million Total Viewers.
Consumers can catch up on Saints & Sinners anytime on
Brown Sugar, Bounce's new subscription-video-on-demand
service. Saints & Sinners seasons one and two are
available in their entirety with exclusive season three episodes
being added every Monday. Brown Sugar features an extensive
library of iconic black movies, all un-edited and commercial-free
and is accessible on Amazon Channels, Amazon Fire
TV, Amazon Kindle, Apple TV, Roku, Android and Apple smartphones
and tablets and web browsers via BrownSugar.com.
Saints & Sinners centers around the pursuit of
power, intertwined with greed, deception, corruption and murder –
all set against the backdrop of a large southern church. The series
stars Vanessa Bell Calloway,
Clifton Powell, Christian Keyes, Keith
Robinson, J.D. Williams, Jasmine
Burke, Tray Chaney,
Demetria McKinney, Afemo Omilami and
Donna Biscoe. Saints &
Sinners is produced in partnership with Swirl Film's
Eric Tomosunas (Undershepard, 35
and Ticking). Visit the Saints & Sinners media site
here.
Bounce (@BounceTV) airs on the broadcast signals of local
television stations and corresponding cable carriage, and features
a programming mix of original and off-network series, theatrical
motion pictures, specials, live sports, and more. Bounce has grown
to be available in more than 99 million homes across the United States and 95% of all
African-American (AA) television homes, including all the top AA
television markets. Bounce is part of The E.W. Scripps Company
(NYSE: SSP).
Source: Nielsen, Rating Analysis Program Report, L+SD, Saints
& Sinners (5/6/18, 9P-10P). Rank based on programs starting at
9p.
Contacts: Jim
Weiss, 770-672-6504, jim.weiss@scrippstv.com
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