Duck Dynasty is again, and the season premiere was a giant winner for A&E in comparison with different collection on the community’s line-up, although numbers had been down considerably from the present’s heyday.
In keeping with The U.S. Solar, citing Nielsen rankings, the Duck Dynasty: The Revival premiere on Sunday (June 1) reached 510,000 viewers. This made it the most-watched present on A&E’s present slate by a substantial margin; as of final week, the highest-rated A&E collection earlier than the premiere was First 48 Presents: Important Minutes, with 378,000 viewers.
Nonetheless, the present was down loads from its authentic run, the place the collection usually topped 1 million viewers, even in its later seasons. Duck Dynasty debuted on March 21, 2012, and averaged 1.82 million viewers for its first season. The present’s recognition solely grew from there, with Season 2 averaging 4.17 million viewers, Season 3 averaging 8.32 million viewers, and Season 4 averaging an enormous 9.16 million viewers.
Whereas rankings eased off in later seasons, the present nonetheless usually introduced in round 1 million viewers per episode for its eleventh and closing season in 2016/17. The ultimate episode, which aired on March 29, 2017, amassed 1,507,000 viewers.
Duck Dynasty: The Revival facilities on Willie Robertson and Korie Robertson, their grownup kids, and their grandchildren in Louisiana. Different members of the unique forged additionally seem, together with Kay Robertson, Si Robertson, and Jase Robertson.
One authentic forged member not a part of the collection is patriarch Phil Robertson, who died on Could 25, 2025, after a battle with Alzheimer’s illness. The season premiere included an emotional tribute to Phil on the finish of the episode, with a candy clip of Willie studying out the present’s intro to his father.
The season premiered caught viewers up on the Robertson household, with a give attention to how Willie and Korie have expanded the enterprise.
“Duck Commander warehouse is completely totally different, 5 or 6 companies. It’s acquired a museum, household historical past, just about every part we’ve ever mentioned or achieved is up on the partitions of the museum. The present store, now we have podcasts, we’ve written books, it’s loads for one man to handle,” Willie mentioned within the episode.
Nonetheless, opinions of the primary episode had been blended, with one viewer writing, “Not the identical with out Phil, Godwin, Martin and Jep.”
“Tonight’s present was an enormous disappointment. I’ll watch subsequent week bc I would like this to succeed. Hoping it will get legs and takes off,” mentioned one other.
“I perceive the time has modified however am fairly certain all of us a bit upset trigger we was all anticipating one thing like the unique Duck Dynasty episodes,” one other added.
Others had been preserving an open thoughts, with one fan writing, “Glad to see how this goes and all however nothing will ever beat the unique Duck Dynasty Episodes. This appears to be like extra like a household gathering present.”
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Duck Dynasty: The Revival, Sundays, 9/8c, A&E