Oxygen Launches Back-to-Back Premieres of Brooklyn 11223 and Best Ink

Oxygen marks a week of premieres for two of its original series "Brooklyn 11223" and "Best Ink" and a record-setting airing for the tenth episode of the current season of "Bad Girls Club," according to Nielsen. Each original enjoyed ratings growth.

Monday night's original episode of "Bad Girls Club" earned a season high of 1.89 million total viewers becoming Oxygen's top performing Monday 10PM telecast in network history and propelled Oxygen in the 10 PM hour as the #1 cable network in W18-34, out-delivering ABC and CBS. Following "Bad Girls Club" on Monday at 11PM ET/PT, the series premiere of "Brooklyn 11223" drew 624,000 total viewers and established Oxygen as a top 5 cable network in the key demo of W18-34 in the 11PM hour. Combined with a second airing of the episode at 1AM ET/PT, "Brooklyn 11223" delivered cumulative viewership of almost one million total viewers (994,000). On Tuesday, the series premiere of "Best Ink" became Oxygen's best competition series premiere since 2010 with 469,000 total viewers and 817,000 total viewers combined with a re-airing of the episode at 11PM ET/PT. Compared to the prior four week time period average, "Best Ink" delivered impressive triple digit growth and was up +204% in A18-49, and +103% in total viewers.

For the first time ever, Oxygen launched the full premiere episode of "Brooklyn 11223" a week early on March 19 on various platforms including VOD, Oxygen.com and Hulu and made it available for free download-to-own on Apple iTunes, Amazon Video on Demand, Zune on Xbox, Sony PlayStation, Samsung MediaHub and VUDU. Through premiere day, the full episode on Oxygen.com and Hulu delivered nearly 91,000 streams. On Oxygen.com, "Bad Girls Club" ranked as the #1 show with respect to daily unique visitors for the premiere day of the tenth episode. Overall, premiere hour uniques to the "Bad Girls Club" OxygenLive event, hosted by twins Danielle and Gabrielle Victor, were up a staggering +257% versus the event for the tenth episode of last season's "Bad Girls Club." According to Trendrr.TV, "Bad Girls Club" ranked as the #1 most mentioned program among all cable and broadcast TV programs Monday with regard to social media mentions, outranking ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" and VH1's "Basketball Wives."

New episodes of "Bad Girls Club" air Monday nights on Oxygen at 10PM ET/PT, followed by "Brooklyn 11223" at 11PM ET/PT. "Best Ink" airs Tuesday nights at 10PM ET/PT.

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