I'm back to again talk THE THING ABOUT PAM. Ruth's "THE THING ABOUT PAM (episode five)" and Betty's "Real life Leah Chaney worse than she's portrayed in THE THING ABOUT PAM" covered last week's episode of the NBC limited-series. It was episode five. This Tuesday, the show airs it's sixth and final episode.
Last week, I noted how the series had done something that dramas on network television are not doing lately. For years now, a drama show debuts and the next week it loses viewers. The week after, it loses more viewers. The pattern continues.
As I noted last week, THE THING ABOUT PAM did lose viewers in its second episode. But something different happened with the third episode -- viewers increased. The same thing happened with the fourth episode.
And now? The fifth episode actually got more viewers than the first episode did.
That show has built on its audience and that is very rare.
NBC gave up on it around episode three. Imagine if the network were heavily promoting the series last week or if, this week, they were noting everything wraps up Tuesday night?
They have an actual hit on their hands and that has little to do with any marketing efforts on their part. In fact, the fifth episode getting more viewers than the first episode would appear to indicate that NBC failed to market the show correctly from the start.
