'Boardwalk' lower from last year's debut

"Boardwalk Empire" opened up up its second season considerably less than its debut last year. The Steve Buscemi starrer came 2.9 million because of its original 9 p.m. airing, with two more additional plays at 10 and 11 p.m. Altogether, "Boardwalk" came 4.5 million audiences. Because of its pilot episode this year, "Boardwalk" came 4.8 million audiences for that first showing and received 7.a million audiences during the period of the evening. That's lower a proper 37% from last September. Competition was tough Sunday for that pay cabler. NBC were built with a National football league game between your Steelers and Colts as the Major league baseball Network featured rivals the Red-colored Sox and Yankees. Around the broadcast side, a number of shows had their season premiere: "The Great Wife," "Desperate Average women," "The Astonishing Race" and also the Fox animation selection. Cinemax is placed to debut the 3rd season of "Hung" a few days ago and also the second season of "Steps to make It in the usa.Inch Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com