'Spartacus' preem up versus. last season

"Spartacus:" Vengeance" came 1.3 million audiences because of its initial telecast Friday and a pair of.7 million combined from four showings over the past weekend. The 2 Friday telecasts were a tenPercent bump over last year's opening-evening premiere of prequel "Spartacus: Gods from the Arena." However, last Feb Starz was offered free of charge to Dish TV clients and roughly 9 million potential audiences were put into the Starz world. That certain-year promotion is placed to finish inside a couple of days, so anticipate seeing the "Spartacus: Vengeance" amounts drop substantially when individuals audiences do not have Starz available any longer. Actually, due to individuals additional 9 million audiences who could watch "Vengeance" earlier this weekend because of the promotion, the rankings for "Vengeance" were really less than "Gods from the Arena," despite more total audiences. Starz will offer you 10 instances of "Vengeance," lower in the 13 instances of the very first season. Following the dying of star Andy Whitfield because of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, charge character was recast with Aussie thesp Liam McIntyre. He co-stars with Lucy Lawless and Peter Mensah. Skein, that is created through the pay cabler, was produced by Steven S. DeKnight. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com