TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 Still Drawing Viewers

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While TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 cooled down considerably after last week’s tumultuous season-five premiere, Monday night’s doubleheader still managed to scare up a huge crowd.

The 9 p.m. Installment of Jon & Kate served up 5.5 million viewers, per Nielsen ratings data, leading into a second episode that improved on that delivery by 9 percent (5.9 million). On the hour, TLC averaged 5.7 million viewers, and while that was far short of the astonishing 9.8

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