According to Robert Seidman, who founded TV ratings site “TV by the Numbers,” Nielsen designates roughly 13% of TV homes in the U.S. as African American, who are accounting for about 60% of the show’s viewership.
On-demand availability of the show may also be helping ratings. Fox has been promoting its Internet streams and video-on-demand systems.
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