Showtime's SHAMELESS Delivers Highest-Rated Episode Ever

This past Sunday's episode of SHAMELESS was not only the highest rated episode of the season, it was the series' highest rated episode ever.

The series also posted its best total night ratings to-date. Through 5 weeks of total data, SHAMELESS season two averages 4.79 million total weekly viewers across platforms (On Demand, replays, Live+7), up +26% above last season through the same time frame (3.8 million).

The viewership for SHAMELESS S2 EPISODE 8 was as follows:

9:00p 1.601 million viewers (up +14% vs. episode 7 on Feb. 19 - 1.41 million, the show was preempted on Feb. 26)

11:00p 518K viewers

Total 2.12 million viewers (+14% vs. last ep 1.86 million)