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The one-two punch of Steven Spielberg and rampaging extraterrestrials delivered solid ratings for TNT, as Sunday night’s series premiere of Falling Skies averaged 5.91 million total viewers.
According to Nielsen, the two-hour opening episode stands as cable’s most-watched series launch of 2011. The Spielberg-produced alien-invasion drama is also cable’s strongest debut since last summer, when TNT’s cop show Rizzoli & Isles drew 7.55 million viewers on July 12.
While Falling Skies easily outgunned 2010’s biggest series premiere on a rival network—on Halloween, AMC’s The Walking Dead scared up 5.34
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