STARZ Power Lands Run on Encore

If you watched the 50 Cent STARZ hit series “Power” starring Omari Hardwick and Naturi Naughton then you know what we are talking about.

If NOT, then you NEED to start watching the series on ENCORE BLACK every Tuesday at 10 PM to get in the loop to one of the best new series of 2014. The original Starz drama “Power,” which had been picking up ratings steam in July and has been especially popular among African-Americans and now CelebNMusic247.com has learned that the first season is getting another run on ENCORE.

The re-release of season 1 has already kicked off, and episode 2 airs this Tuesday, so make sure to watch Power in it’s entire 10 episode run on ENCORE BLACK.

Here is the breakdown according to Variety:

According to Nielsen, the initial 9 p.m. telecast of “Power” averaged 1.082 million viewers — up from 754,000 one week earlier — and two quickie replays brought the show’s total for the night to 1.769 million. Counting all airings over the weekend, its nearly 2.5 million viewers is the largest total audience for a Starz finale since the conclusion of “Spartacus: War of the Damned” in April 2013.

The June 7 series premiere of “Power,” whose executive producers include Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, had drawn a modest 462,000 viewers for its initial airing. But it steadily grew throughout its eight-week run.

Despite being in considerably fewer homes than most basic cable networks, the season finale of “Power” at 9 p.m. drew more adults under 50 (660,000) than the season premiere of AMC’s “Hell on Wheels” (597,000) in the same time period. It drew a balanced gender mix, with 50% of its adults 18-49 audience and 49% of its adults 25-54 audience coming from men.

Starz said that prior to the finale, episodes of “Power” had been averaging about 4 million viewers across all platforms, including Starz on Demand and Starz Play. It has been renewed for a 10-episode second season.

Looking to strike while it’s hot, “Power” will premiere to more than 10 million new households on Encore Black starting Aug. 12. The show will premiere one episode per week on Tuesdays at both 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., leading up to its Sept. 30 finale.