With Hollywood’s box office numbers at a standstill for months upon seemingly endless months, Los Angeles also found out that it wasn’t the TV draw it expected to be this year either. While HBO and the NFL hoped that Hard Knocks: LA would be a hit as they pegged two teams to share the small screen for the first time, Austin Karp of the Sports Business Journal reported the lowest TV ratings for any episode of the show he could find. Ever.
273,000 viewers for Tuesday evening’s premiere, with streaming numbers yet to be reported.