Twentieth Century Fox Television Co-Chairmen Gary Newman and Dana Walden celebrated their first pickup of the fall season last week—but it wasn’t for a series at one of the Big Five broadcast networks. Instead, they broke out the Champagne for the second-season greenlight for FX’s “Sons of Anarchy.”...
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FX said it has ordered a second 13-episode season of its original drama “Sons of Anarchy.” The network said the show has been its most consistent first-year drama since “Rescue Me” and has been averaging a cumulative audience of 5.4 million total viewers and 3.5 million adults 18 to 49 over its five...
Despite big cable network viewership for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s speech, the premiere of FX’s new series “Sons of Anarchy” drew an encouraging 1.2 rating and 1.5 million viewers 18-49, according to Nielsen Media Research. The series, about a motorcycle gang, ranked third...