Katharine McPhee: 'Smash' Premiere Ratings Down From Last Season

Katharine McPhee: 'Smash' Premiere Ratings Down From Last Season

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We thought our expectations were appropriately adjusted when we opened the ratings spreadsheet this morning. We knew the return of NBC's Smash on Tuesday wasn't going to have nearly as big of an audience as the


Kai the Hatchet Hitchhiker's 'SMash' autotune; the latest Beyoncé memes; a hipster cure; do the harlem shake and more!


TV Q&A with Rob Owen. Submit a question to TV Q&A by clicking here: http://old.post-gazette.com/tv/questions/qaform.asp. This week's TV Q&A (after the "Read more" jump below) responds to questions about “Smash,†HDTV and local TV news personalities.


The ratings for Smash's premiere were down from last year, however. The series brought in 4.5 million viewers and a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49, according to EW, which is down 71 percent from last year's premiere and down 47 percent from NBC's



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