ABC Family Scores with New Original Series

BURBANK, July 3: ABC
Family’s newest original series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, debuted as the highest-rated original series
telecast in the network’s history in the key adult, women and 12-to-34
demographics, ranking number one in its time slot across the cable landscape.

Secret Life drew in 2.8 million total viewers, and now stands
as ABC Family’s most-watched original series premiere and is ranked second
overall among all original series telecasts, just behind the season-one finale
of Kyle XY.

With adults 18 to 34, the
premiere scored a 1.2 rating with 826,000 viewers, and a 1.9 rating with
620,000 viewers in the 18-to-34 female demographic. Secret Life pulled in 1.7 million viewers aged 12 to 34, with a
1.9 rating.

The program crushed the
year-ago time period by triple-digit percentages, increasing by 155 percent in
total viewers, by 361 percent in adults 18 to 34 and by 272 percent in viewers
12 to 34.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski