HBO Renews Tell Me You Love Me
Sex-Laden Original Series Returning for Second Season
By Anne Becker -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/4/2007 8:04:00 AM
HBO renewed sex-laden original series Tell Me You Love Mefor a second season, the network confirmed.
The network declined to provide details on when it would begin shooting the new episodes or when they would premiere.
While the relationship drama debuted with just 910,000 total viewers early in September -- dismal compared with almost all of the pay cable network's originals in recent years -- it has maintained the interest of TV critics, at least, and built bigger audiences over multiple plays. The premiere episode, for example, drew a total of 3.1 million viewers over seven plays, HBO said.
To bolster awareness around the show, HBO later in September launched a multimedia marketing campaign featuring real-life couples talking about the show and their own drama. Segments have been running on the network after each episode, as well as online, on iTunes and on video-on-demand.
HBO is picking up Tell Me after it declined to do so with its last original series, John from Cincinnati. The latter's least-watched episode of the season actually drew more viewers than Tell Me's premiere, but the network saw little hope in the oddball surf-noir show ever really catching on with viewers.
Tell Me's premiere numbers are also so small compared with those of other HBO series, like John and Big Love,in part because it didn't have the benefit of a Sopranoslead-in as the others did.
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omg ty..so glad they are bringing this show back just wish i knew when...my fiance and used to sit and watch this together in the bed on sun. night. i felt this romantic bond, and it brought us closer together before he left for iraq. aside from bringing my fiance and i happiness the show was BAD AZZ..it was so juicy...i was totally obsessed with this show,and made sure i never missed...i told everyone in my family about this show and once they started watching it they said they were hooked...HBO must have been crazy when they thought of canceling this show...TMYLM rocks...bring it back with more drama filled episodes...
anita - 9/15/2008 12:45:00 AM EDT -
omg ty..so glad they are bringing this show back just wish i knew when...my fiance and used to sit and watch this together in the bed on sun. night. i felt this romantic bond, and it brought us closer together before he left for iraq. aside from bringing my fiance and i happiness the show was BAD AZZ..it was so juicy...i was totally obsessed with this show,and made sure i never missed...i told everyone in my family about this show and once they started watching it they said they were hooked...HBO must have been crazy when they thought of canceling this show...TMYLM rocks...bring it back with more drama filled episodes...
anita - 9/15/2008 12:41:00 AM EDT -
This is the best news I have received in a long time...I am thrilled Tell me you love me is coming back for 2nd season. I loved the show, got my husband watching it and my daughter and son-in-law and others. All the actors are great and stories are so close to home. I'll be watching for it.
Cathy Hedrick - 6/4/2008 11:07:00 AM EDT -
THIS SHOW IS ONE OF THE BEST SHOW'S I'VE SEEN THAT RELATES TO SO MANY ACTUAL ISSUES THAT COUPLES FACE. I THINK IT REALLY MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE AND HOW YOU MEND THE ISSUES AT HAND. I ALSO THINK THE OLDER COUPLES SCENES ARE VERY TASTEFUL AND LET'S FACE IT. WE ALL GET OLD. FANTASTIC SHOW!!! I COMMEND THE WRITERS!
DE - 1/18/2008 4:20:00 PM EST -
Although I do believe that HBO is going downhill, I do indeed like this show. It was time for a series that feels familiar. Yes it is a bit graphic and I wish I had tivo to fast forward the old people scenes but in all it's a very good show. I'm glad there is a second season. Hope that HBO can recover from it's decline and maybe learn a thing or two from showtime.
Joey Rodriguez - 12/3/2007 3:34:00 AM EST
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