Duck Dynasty Ratings Drop after Anti - Gay scandal

let's follow up about duck dynasty duck dynasty is the reality tape show on A&E that was the center of controversy when one of their reality stars Phil Robertson made some anti-gay comments their ratings for the new season are in and they're down significantly this is a Dennys flagship show the flagship reality series a clock 8.5 million viewers which snapped a streak ratings records and posted its first season to season drop among adults 18 to 49 the premier average 4.2 million viewers down 33 percent there's no denying these are huge huge numbers for a cable series but the season 5 opener was down from the show's season 4 debut which had about 12 million viewers the two back to back episodes were the first appearance love the Robertson family on A&E since the anti-gay scandal any initially criticized bill Robertson and suspended him then they brought him back and entire fifth season had already been filmed at that point it didn't really change or affect anything I can assure you Louis that the anti-gay scandal had zero impact on me watching that program didn't affect me it in any way at all right you never watched it and you never will write exactly exactly a year you're 100 percent right there even with 28 you were here 28 percent fewer viewers the show is hugely hugely profitable and the last thing we need on television corporate television is more homophobes hiding behind God's Word to spread bigotry I don't know if the topic I've LGBT equality will come up on the program I assume that it will not but there are enough big its combined with people who didn't follow the scandal or who separate the bigotry from the TV show still wanna watch that the show will continue to thrive there's no doubt about it right if this is a quote reality show I perhaps there are prob the cameras will be rolling when someone now approaches after Roberts in on I don't meet you and and confronts him about this but I of course they can always just edit that out DIGG as we know those we know a few people who have been on reality shows are on reality shows and typically the setup is you know that they are filming say five days out of the month six days you schedule specific things for those days that you want to have as part of the program and you leave all of your other actual reality stuff that you do in your life for the days that you're not filming and the idea that it is a representation of true reality is pretty absurd however it seems that being anti-gay is a significant part a bill robertson's reality to it it would only be fair to include in the show we'll see if it makes it in there