FX's 'Anger' Slips Again in Third Week

Charlie Sheen starrer down 28% to 2.4 million viewers

By Andrea Morabito -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/13/2012 4:40:46 PM

FX's Anger Management continued to lose viewers in its third week, averaging 2.42 million viewers for its fourth episode on Thursday, down 28% from the prior week.

According to Nielsen, the 9:30 p.m. episode of the Charlie Sheen sitcom posted a 0.98 rating among adults 18-49, dipping 25% from episode three, which averaged a 1.3 rating.

After debuting strongly to 5.5 million viewers on June 28, Anger shed 2.1 million viewers in its second week. The ratings track is significant because its first two episodes do not count toward the ratings threshold it must hit in its initial 10 episodes to trigger the additional 90-episode order from Debmar-Mercury.

In an interview with B&C last month, FX chief John Landgraf declined to specify the ratings mark Anger must hit but said, "It's consonant with our best comedy ratings for our original comedies."