Swamp People Ratings

HISTORY® CONTINUES ITS RATINGS SUCCESS

WITH SUNDAY NIGHT DEBUT OF

SWAMP PEOPLE

Drives HISTORY to #1 in Cable within 10-11pm Time Period

and Sets Record as Network’s Best-Ever Original Series Launch

New York, August 24, 2010 – HISTORY’s series opener of SWAMP PEOPLE, on Sunday, August 22 at 10pm ET, produced stellar ratings for the network and set a new record, among all key demos, as HISTORY’s best-ever original series launch.

The series premiere garnered 4.2 million total viewers, 2.5 million Adults 25-54 and 2.3 million Adults 18-49 – driving HISTORY to #1 in cable within the 10-11pm time period in total viewers and Adults 25-54.

Deep in southern Louisiana there are nearly 1 million acres of flooded forest, marshland and bayous unlike anyplace else in the United States. It’s a hidden world, a place where nature still rules – but a hardy breed of “Swamp People” knows the secrets of this dangerous mysterious territory. Most are Cajun descendants of French-speaking settlers who came from Canada in the 1700’s – and their way of life has been fundamentally the same for generations. Hunting, especially alligator hunting, remains a major source of their livelihood. In the first season of SWAMP PEOPLE, a 10-episode series which premiered on Sunday, August 22 at 10pm ET and airs on Sundays at 10pm thereafter, HISTORY follows these intrepid hunters as they head out in pursuit of monstrous “killing machines” during the 30-day alligator hunting season.

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