‘True Detective’ returns to its second-largest audience

Norman Weiss June 23, 2015, 12:16 pm

True Detective returns to its second-largest audience

About 3.2 million watched True Detective’s Season 2 premiere, which ranks just below the series high of 3.52 million for the Season 1 finale. Meanwhile, Dwayne Johnson’s Ballers debuted to 2.2 million and The Brink premiered to 1.6 million.

Eight is Enough patriarch Dick Van Patten dies at 86

Van Patten, who died due to complications from diabetes, had numerous TV roles, including The Love Boat and, most recently, Hot in Cleveland.

Downton Abbey may become a musical

The show’s composer, John Lunn, says he’s been working with creator Julian Fellowes on a live event that would be staged after Downton is over.

2.1 million tuned in for A Deadly Adoption

The Will Ferrell-Kristen Wiig Lifetime movie had less than half the viewership of the Whitney Houston biopic that aired earlier this year.

Kaitlyn Bristowe refuses to feel bad about having sex on The Bachelorette

Kaitlyn refused to be slut-shamed on last night’s episode. “This is marriage and part of that is intimacy,” she said. “If the physical part of the relationship isn’t there for me, that’s a deal breaker.” PLUS: Bristowe fires back at her social media critics, and Bristowe on why she cried.