'Hawaii Five-0' premiere is the most DVR'ed show
Alex O'Loughlin, left, and Scott Caan star in the series reboot of "Hawaii Five-0" on CBS. Credit: CBS
CBS' premiere of its reconstituted cop show "Hawaii Five-0," starring Alex O'Loughlin, is the most DVR'ed show of all time.
Nielsen released ratings earlier this week for the first week of the 2010-11 TV season, and they include people who recorded those episodes and watched them within a week via DVR. These so-called "Live+7" stats are the figures the industry has agreed should go into the record books in this DVR age.
Industry watchers had predicted the most DVR'ed show of the new season's first week would most likely be a returning hit on a younger-skewing network. That's because younger viewers are more tech-savvy, and because the industry watchers presumed people would record returning faves so they could sample the new shows in the actual time slots. They were wrong on both counts.
"Hawaii Five-0" tops the list - and sets a new industry record - after 3.3 million more people watched the first episode within a week of its Sept. 20 broadcast.
- The Washington Post
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