X-Files has returned with a massive bang.
With The X-Files being off the air since its ninth season in 2002, coming back in 2008 briefly for a stand-alone film, its absolutely amazing that it achieved some of the highest ratings of a scripted TV show in recent times.
The premiere of The X-Files season 10/reboot dragged in a whopping 21.4 million views, this includes those who recorded then watched it over the three days following. Take out those who did not watch it live, you still have a hardy 16.2 million viewers. For the second episode that followed a week later, around 9.7 million people watched live, which was turned into 13.5 million including those who recorded and watched over the next three days. dropping slightly more from episode two, episode three had 8.4 million live viewers.
To put it into perspective, the highest viewed premiere for a scripted show in 2015 was “The Big Bang theory”, in which the season 9 premiere which saw 18.2 live viewers. Something that X-Files did very well was covering the 18-49 demographic.
Currently averaging 11.4 million live viewers, this X-Files continuation currently has a better average than season one and season nine. Overall it is bringing in more live viewers than five of the nine original seasons.
With the show still in full force but loosing a bit of traction it should be interesting to see what kind of numbers the rest of this season will pull in.
