'Gossip Girl' Series Finale Hits Ratings High; 'Game of Thrones' Season 3 Gets Longer Episodes

Posted December 18, 2012, 3:48 pm   •   by Lauren DiMascio   •   0 comments

Gossip Girl’s series finale scored on the ratings Monday night for both The CW and the show itself. The two-hour event, which revealed the anonymous blogger, averaged 1.4 million viewers and was up 34 percent from last week’s outing. Gossip Girl also gave the network its best Monday night showing since Jan. 30 and Dec 5. respectively. The episode within the finale event garnered the drama's best ratings since April 2011. Meanwhile, The Voice’s final performance night was also up from last season’s final Monday performances. [TVLine]

HBO’s third season of Game of Thrones is getting a bit of an extension. Though the show will still only run for 10 episodes, each episode has tacked on a few minutes, adding almost a whole episode's worth of minutes to the third season. Season 3 of the drama will focus on the content from roughly the first half of George R.R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords. Game of Thrones premieres Sunday, Mar. 31, 2013 on HBO. [EW]

Discovery’s American Guns will not be back for Season 3. The reality series, about a family of gun makers, has been receiving an increased amount of backlash since the devastating school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. While the network says the decision was made a while ago, the decision came out to the media on Tuesday. A spokesperson for the network said, “American Guns concluded earlier this year. Discovery Channel chose not to renew the series and has no plans to air repeats of the show.” [Deadline]