'Better Call Saul' Series Finale Draws Big Ratings
by EG
Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul wrapped up its final season this week, and the series' final episode drew the biggest audience in the past three seasons. The episode pulled in more than half the viewers of the night's biggest network show, The Bachelorette, which is quite a feat for a cable series. The ratings are likely to get even bigger once fans have a chance to watch the finale via streaming platforms in the coming days.
The final episode of Better Call Saul drew the show’s biggest audience in three seasons — a span of more than five years.
Monday’s series finale for the Breaking Bad spinoff averaged 1.8 million viewers for AMC, a same-day season high by almost 400,000 viewers (the season premiere in April had 1.42 million viewers). The episode, “Saul Gone,” also had more viewers than any episode in season five, or season four — or any Saul installment since the third-season finale back in June 2017 drew 1.85 million people on its first night.
Those numbers will only grow, of course, with delayed viewing and streaming. Better Call Saul has been adding about a million viewers with three days of DVR playback this season, according to Nielsen, and AMC says the show has performed well on its AMC+ streaming platform (though as is often the case with streaming services, there’s no public data to back up the claim).
The Better Call Saul finale also averaged a 0.47 rating among adults 18-49, its best mark in the key ad demographic since the season five premiere in 2020.
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