RuPaul's Drag Race (season 3)
| RuPaul's Drag Race | |
|---|---|
| Season 3 | |
| Broadcast from | January 24 – May 2, 2011 |
| Judges |
RuPaul Michelle Visage Santino Rice Billy B[1] |
| Host(s) | RuPaul |
| Broadcaster | Logo |
| Competitors | 13 |
| Winner | |
| Raja | |
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| Origin | Los Angeles, CA |
| Runner-up | |
| Manila Luzon | |
The third season of RuPaul's Drag Race began airing on January 24, 2011.[2] Thirteen drag queens competed for the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar", a headlining spot on the Absolut Tour, a lifetime supply of Kryolan makeup, and a cash prize of $75,000.
This season had Michelle Visage replacing Merle Ginsberg at the judge's table and Billy Brasfield[3] (better known as Billy B), Mike Ruiz, and Jeffrey Moran filling in for Santino Rice's absence during several episodes. Billy B, celebrity makeup artist and star of the HGTV mini-series Hometown Renovation, appeared as a judge in five episodes. Whereas Mike Ruiz only judged for two episodes, and Jeffrey Moran for one, Moran only appeared for promotional reasons. Due to Billy B's continued appearances, he and Rice are now considered to have been alternate judges for the same seat at the judges table, both appearing side-by-side in the reunion special to announce Yara Sofia as the season's Miss Congeniality.[1]
Other changes made included the introduction of a wildcard contestant from the past season, Shangela Laquifa Wadley; an episode with no elimination; and a contestant, Carmen Carrera, being brought back into the competition after having been eliminated a few episodes prior. A new pit crew was also introduced consisting of Jason Carter and Shawn Morales. The theme song playing during the runway every episode was changed to "Champion" while the song playing during the credits is "Main Event", both from RuPaul's album Champion. As with the previous season, each week's episode was followed by a behind-the-scenes show, RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked. On December 6, 2011 Amazon.com released this season on DVD via their CreateSpace program.[4]
The winner of the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race was Raja, with Manila Luzon being the runner-up.
Alexis Mateo, Manila Luzon, Mimi Imfurst and Yara Sofia competed on the first season of All Stars. Mimi placed 11/12th overall with season 2 contestant Pandora Boxx, Manila placed 7th/8th with season 4 contestant Latrice Royale, and Alexis and Yara placed 5th/6th overall together.
Shangela competed on the third season of All Stars. Shangela placed 3rd/4th overall with season 1 winner BeBe Zahara Benet.
Contestants
(Ages and names stated are at time of contest.)
| Contestant | Name | Age | Hometown | Outcome |
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| Raja | Sutan Amrull[5] | 36 | Los Angeles, California | Winner |
| Manila Luzon | Karl Westerberg[6] | 28 | New York, New York | Runner-up |
| Alexis Mateo | Alexis Mateo Pacheco[7] | 30 | St. Petersburg, Florida | 3rd Place |
| Yara Sofia | Gabriel Burgos Ortiz[8] | 26 | Manati, Puerto Rico | 4th Place |
| Carmen Carrera | Christopher Roman [lower-alpha 1] | 25 | Elmwood Park, New Jersey | 5th Place[lower-alpha 2] |
| Shangela[lower-alpha 3] | D.J. Pierce | 29 | Los Angeles, California | 6th Place |
| Delta Work | Gabriel Villarreal[9] | 34 | Norwalk, California | 7th Place |
| Stacy Layne Matthews | Ron Jones | 25 | Back Swamp, North Carolina | 8th Place |
| Mariah[lower-alpha 4] | Elijah Kelly[10] | 29 | Atlanta, Georgia | 9th Place |
| India Ferrah | Shane Richardson[11] | 23 | Dayton, Ohio | 10th Place |
| Mimi Imfurst | Braden Chapman | 27 | New York, New York | 11th Place |
| Phoenix | Brian Trapp[12] | 29 | Atlanta, Georgia | 12th Place |
| Venus D-Lite | Adam Guerra[13] | 26 | Los Angeles, California | 13th Place |
Contestant progress
| Contestant[lower-alpha 1] | 2[15] | 3[16] | 4[17] | 5[18] | 6[19] | 7[20] | 8[21] | 9[22] | 10[23] | 11[24] | 12[25] | 13[26] | 15[27] | 16[28] |
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| Raja | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | HIGH | WIN | HIGH | LOW | WIN | HIGH | BTM2 | HIGH | Winner | Guest |
| Manila Luzon | HIGH | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | HIGH | BTM2 | LOW | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | WIN | Runner-up | Guest |
| Alexis Mateo | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | HIGH | BTM2 | SAFE | WIN | LOW | BTM2 | HIGH | BTM2 | Eliminated | Guest |
| Yara Sofia | SAFE | HIGH | HIGH | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | HIGH | BTM2 | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | ELIM | Miss C | |
| Carmen Carrera | LOW | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | HIGH | BTM2 | ELIM | ELIM | Guest | |||
| Shangela | BTM2 | WIN | SAFE | HIGH | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | HIGH | BTM2 | ELIM | Guest | |||
| Delta Work | SAFE | BTM2 | SAFE | SAFE | BTM2 | HIGH | ELIM | Guest | ||||||
| Stacy Layne Matthews | SAFE | HIGH | HIGH | BTM2 | WIN | ELIM | Guest | |||||||
| Mariah | SAFE | HIGH | LOW | LOW | ELIM | Guest | ||||||||
| India Ferrah | SAFE | SAFE | BTM2 | ELIM | Guest | |||||||||
| Mimi Imfurst | HIGH | HIGH | ELIM | Guest | ||||||||||
| Phoenix | SAFE | ELIM | Guest | |||||||||||
| Venus D-Lite | ELIM | Guest | ||||||||||||
- The contestant won RuPaul's Drag Race.
- The contestant was the runner-up of RuPaul's Drag Race.
- The contestant was eliminated without qualifying to lip-sync in the finale.
- The contestant was voted Miss Congeniality by viewers.
- The contestant won a challenge.
- The contestant received positive judges' critiques but was ultimately declared safe.
- The contestant received judges' critiques but was ultimately declared safe.
- The contestant received negative judges' critiques but was ultimately declared safe.
- The contestant was in the bottom two.
- The contestant was eliminated.
- The contestant returned as a guest for the finale episode.
Lip-syncs
| Episode | Contestants | Song | Eliminated | ||
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| 2 | Shangela | vs. | Venus D-Lite | "The Right Stuff" (Vanessa Williams) |
Venus D-Lite |
| 3 | Delta Work | vs. | Phoenix | "Bad Romance" (Lady Gaga) |
Phoenix |
| 4 | India Ferrah | vs. | Mimi Imfurst | "Don't Leave Me This Way" (Thelma Houston) |
Mimi Imfurst |
| 5 | India Ferrah | vs. | Stacy Layne Matthews | "Meeting in the Ladies Room" (Klymaxx) |
India Ferrah |
| 6 | Delta Work | vs. | Mariah | "Looking for a New Love" (Jody Watley) |
Mariah |
| 7 | Alexis Mateo | vs. | Stacy Layne Matthews | "Knock on Wood" (Amii Stewart) |
Stacy Layne Matthews |
| 8 | Delta Work | vs. | Manila Luzon | "MacArthur Park" (Donna Summer) |
Delta Work |
| 9 | Carmen Carrera | vs. | Yara Sofia | "Mickey" (Spanish version) (Toni Basil) |
None |
| 10 | Carmen Carrera | vs. | Shangela | "Believe" (Cher) |
Carmen Carrera |
| 11 | Alexis Mateo | vs. | Shangela | "Even Angels" (Fantasia) |
Shangela |
| 12 | Carmen Carrera | vs. | Raja | "Straight Up" (Paula Abdul) |
Carmen Carrera |
| 13 | Alexis Mateo | vs. | Yara Sofia | "I Think About You" (Patti LaBelle) |
Yara Sofia |
| 15 | Manila Luzon | vs. | Raja | "Champion (DJ BunJoe's Olympic Mix)" (RuPaul) |
Manila Luzon |
- The contestant was eliminated after their first time in the bottom two.
- The contestant was eliminated after their second time in the bottom two.
- The contestant was eliminated after their third time in the bottom two.
- The contestant was eliminated after the final lip sync of the season.
Guest judges
(In alphabetic order by stage name and/or last name)
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Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date |
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| 22 | 1 | "Casting Extravaganza" | January 24, 2011 |
| The first episode shows behind the scenes of the casting process for the 2011 edition of "RuPaul's Drag Race." Featured are entrants that were not cast in the series. All the contestants are profiled. Manila's audition tape includes an endorsement from her boyfriend, season 2's Sahara Davenport. Raja reveals she has done make up for some pretty big names in Hollywood and her audition tape includes an endorsement from Adam Lambert. India Ferrah shows us through video and old photos his early drag career which started at 14. Mimi and Stacy were premiered as the Big Girls of the Season. Phoenix talks about her start in drag. Venus D-lite and Delta Work are profiled, and it is revealed that they were chosen as a result of auditioning in front of RuPaul and Santino Rice at an open casting call in Hollywood, California. This special also features several queens who appear on future seasons: Madame LaQueer and Chad Michaels, who would go on to appear on Season 4, Alaska, Detox, and Penny Tration who would go on to appear on Season 5, Joslyn Fox who would appear on Season 6, Katya Zamolodchikova, Sasha Belle, Mrs. Kasha Davis and Jasmine Masters who appeared on Season 7, and Season 8 newcomers Thorgy Thor and Dax Exclamationpoint. | |||
| 23 | 2 | "The Queen Who Mopped Xmas" | January 24, 2011 |
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Twelve new queens vying to be "America's Next Drag Superstar" with a surprise twist that the first eliminated second-season competitor Shangela has returned to be the thirteenth competitor.
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| 24 | 3 | "Queens in Space" | January 31, 2011 |
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| 25 | 4 | "Totally Leotarded" | February 7, 2011 |
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| 26 | 5 | "QNN News" | February 14, 2011 |
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For the mini-challenges, the girls were given the task of creating a scandalous red carpet photo. Being a news-related episode, the winning photos were shown on WOW Report (Carmen's revealing crotch shot) and NewNowNext (Stacy's wardrobe malfunction). The winners became the team leaders as news anchors for "The Morning After News" on fictionalized QNN. To mentor the girls, anchor Debbie Matenopoulos provided tips on personality and delivery. Kristin Cavallari was on hand to be interviewed by the queens.
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| 27 | 6 | "The Snatch Game" | February 21, 2011 |
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For this week's mini challenge, the girls were asked to play "S**t RuPaul Says" to win the opportunity to call a family member. Delta won the challenge but gave the prize to Shangela who wanted to speak to her grandmother. The group was then asked to impersonate celebrities on "Snatch Game".
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| 28 | 7 | "Face, Face, Face of Cakes" | February 28, 2011 |
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At the beginning of the episode, the contestants are asked to do a tasteful nude photo shoot with photographer Deborah Anderson. Carmen won the challenge with her cheesecake photo and was given the task to assign each contestant a prepared cake from a bakery. Alexis received the cheesecake. Shangela received the pineapple upside down cake. Stacy received the red velvet cake. Yara received the strawberry short cake. Delta received an angel food cake. Manila received the carrot cake. Raja received the chocolate lava cake and Carmen saved the Princess cake for herself. The main challenge called for a couture dress inspired by their assigned cake. Furthermore, each girl received a doll cake which had to be decorated to reflect the contestant's personality.
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| 29 | 8 | "Ru Ha Ha" | March 7, 2011 |
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In this week's mini-challenge, the cast were asked to "read" each other (popularized by the film Paris is Burning). Shangela wins the challenge, with her prize being to choose the order of the contestants for the main challenge. RuPaul announces that for the main challenge, the queens have to develop a stand-up comedy routine to perform in front of a live audience. In order to help them put an act together, they each get a one-on-one workshop with legendary comedian Rita Rudner.
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| 30 | 9 | "Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Style" | March 14, 2011 |
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In the mini-challenge the contestants are asked to bedazzle black bras into something spectacular, and Manila wins. The contestants are then told they will be making 30-second promos themed around their love of America that will be shown to U.S. military members serving overseas. Each contestant will get ten minutes to film, with Manila getting an extra five minutes for winning the mini-challenge.
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| 31 | 10 | "RuPaul-a-Palooza" | March 21, 2011 |
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This week's mini-challenge is a game of "Ru-sical chairs" with Manila being the last queen standing. Ru announces that the main challenge this week has the queens performing a song for “RuPaul-a-Palooza”, and brings out Absolut Vodka spokesman Jeffrey Moran. Each queen is going to record their own version of Ru’s new song, "Superstar", in one of six distinct musical styles, and since Manila won the mini-challenge, she gets to pick first and determine the order the rest of the queens choose their style in.
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| 32 | 11 | "RuPaul's Hair Extravaganza" | March 28, 2011 |
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For this week's mini challenge, the remaining contestants were asked to create a fashion-forward, beach themed headpiece, with Raja being declared the winner. After this, RuPaul reveals the main challenge: Participate in a hair-themed fashion show with three distinct looks: a classic look from another era, a modern red carpet look, and a fantasy hair outfit, which must be made entirely out of wigs.
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| 33 | 12 | "Jocks in Frocks" | April 4, 2011 |
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RuPaul reveals that Carmen Carrera is returning to the competition after being unanimously voted back by the other judges. The queens move on to the mini-challenge in which they play RuPaul's version of the dunk tank, the Badonkadonk Dunking Machine. Alexis Mateo wins the challenge after managing to dunk Yara Sofia fourteen times. RuPaul next announces the main challenge: The queens must make over five masculine, heterosexual jocks as their drag sisters. Alexis Mateo gets to choose which queen gets which jock for winning the mini-challenge. As a twist, RuPaul reveals the queens must also dress their jocks as cheerleaders and perform cheers about safe sex.
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| 34 | 13 | "Make Dat Money" | April 11, 2011 |
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The final four begin this episode with a mini-challenge of creating a marketable drag product from their own wardrobe and then deliver a sales pitch on RuVC. Yara wins the mini-challenge, as Ru announces the main challenge — to create three looks for three distinct categories: Swimsuit Body Beautiful, Cocktail Attire After 5 and Evening Gown Eleganza, which must be made out of 1 million Ru Dollars. The girls must also perform a choreographed lip-sync to "Just Wanna Dance" by guest judge La Toya Jackson.
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| 35 | 14 | "RuPaul Rewind" | April 18, 2011 |
| A look back at the highlights, low-lights and previously unseen footage from the first 13 episodes. Chaz Bono made a cameo appearance during the episode's opening scene as a spot light operator. Season two winner Tyra Sanchez as well as runner-up Raven and Jujubee returned to the provide their opinions on the season's highlights. | |||
| 36 | 15 | "Grand Finale" | April 25, 2011 |
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Finale The final three return to the workroom where Michelle Visage greets them and delivers the final challenge — costarring in the music video for Ru's song "Champion." During rehearsals, each of the girls also has a 'lunch' of tic-tacs with RuPaul and reflects on what got them to the finale.
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| 37 | 16 | "Reunited!" | May 2, 2011 |
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The queens of RuPaul's Drag Race reunite for the since the shooting of the series. In this reunion special, all thirteen contestants return to give their take on what happened during the show. Plus, the girls confront the judges and each other. RuPaul introduces Santino Rice and Billy B to reveal that Yara Sofia is the winner of the title of Miss Congeniality.[1]
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U.S. television ratings
| Episode | Title | Viewers (in millions) | Households1 | Ages 18–491 | Network |
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| 2 | The Queen who Mopped Xmas | 0.449 | - | 0.4/1[29] | LOGO |
| 3 | Queens in Space | 0.560 | 0.3/1 | 0.3/1[30] | VH1 |
| 4 | Totally Leotarded | 0.478 | 0.3/1 | 0.2/1[31] | |
| 5 | QNN News | 0.537 | 0.4/1 | 0.3/1[32] | |
| 6 | The Snatch Game | 0.503 | 0.3/1 | 0.2/1[33] | |
| 7 | Face, Face, Face of Cakes | 0.486 | 0.4/1 | 0.2/1[34] | |
| 8 | Ru Ha Ha | 0.483 | 0.3/1 | 0.2/1[35] | |
1Based upon point/share system for Nielsen ratings. The first number represents the percentage of households within the population viewing the program (known as points). The second number (known as shares) is how many households were expected to view the program, within the population. For example, Episode 8 has a point/share of "0.3/1". This means .3% of households viewed the program from the expected 1%, showing .7% of the show's audience were watching a different program.
References
- ↑ Contestant progress is referenced throughout the episodes from LogoTV, alongside the episodes published on iTunes Store.[14]
- 1 2 3 "Ep. 16, Episode 16, Season 3: Reunited!". Logo TV. Archived from the original on 2014-11-07.
- ↑ LOGO On-line. "RuPaul's Drag Race 3: Cast Bios". LOGO On-line. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
- ↑ Brasfield, Billy. "Billy Brasfield Official Biography".
- ↑ Kline, Dill. "RuPauls Drag Race Season 3".
- ↑ “Drag Race” Season 3 Winner Raja Marries Husband In Surprise Wedding
- ↑ Congrats! RuPaul’s Drag Race star Manila Luzon got married in Vegas on Christmas Eve
- ↑ E. Hernández; E. Rodriguez y Gibson; Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson (20 August 2014). The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 52–. ISBN 978-1-137-43108-0.
- ↑ Yara Sofia to Headline Pride Center’s New Year’s Eve Kiki
- ↑ "Adele Brought Her Drag Queen Impersonator on Stage With Her". Harper's BAZAAR. 2016-08-08. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
- ↑ "Mariah Paris Balenciaga "It Gets Better!"". Abby Normal. 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
- ↑ St. James, James (January 7, 2016). "RuPaul's DragCon 2016: Meet India Ferrah". WorldOfWonder.net. Archived from the original on May 15, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- ↑ Bland, David Travis. "How RuPaul's Drag Race Became a Recurring Fixture on the Columbia Scene". Free Times. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
- ↑ Beale, Margherita. "'Drag Race' ex-contestant hung up on playing Madonna now has a business plan". latimes.com. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
- ↑ "RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 1". iTunes Store (United States). January 17, 2011. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ↑ "The Queen Who Mopped Xmas". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 2. January 24, 2011.
- ↑ "Queens in Space". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 3. January 31, 2011.
- ↑ "Totally Leotarded". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 4. February 7, 2011.
- ↑ "QNN News". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 5. February 14, 2011.
- ↑ "Snatch Game". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 6. February 21, 2011.
- ↑ "Face, Face, Face of Cakes". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 7. February 28, 2011.
- ↑ "Ru Ha Ha". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 8. March 7, 2011.
- ↑ "Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Style". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 9. March 14, 2011.
- ↑ "RuPaul-a-Palooza". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 10. March 21, 2011.
- ↑ "RuPaul's Hair Extravaganza". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 11. March 28, 2011.
- ↑ "Jocks in Frocks". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 12. April 4, 2011.
- ↑ "Make Dat Money". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 13. April 11, 2011.
- ↑ "Grand Finale". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 15. April 18, 2011.
- ↑ "Reunited!". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 3. Episode 16. April 25, 2011.
- ↑ "Logo's Third Season Premieres of "RuPaul's Drag Race" and "Untucked: RuPaul's Drag Race" Rev Up Ratings on Monday Night" (Press release). Tv By the Numbers. January 26, 2011. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
- ↑ Gorman, Bill (February 2, 2011). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'The Game' Leads Night + 'Teen Mom 2,' 'Tosh.0,' 'Southland,' 'White Collar,' 'Lights Out' & More". TV by the Numbers. Tribune Media Services. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ↑ Seidman, Robert (February 9, 2011). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'The Game' Down, But Still Leads Night + 'Teen Mom 2,' 'Tosh.0,' 'Southland,' 'White Collar,' 'Lights Out' & More". TV by the Numbers. Tribune Media Services. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ↑ Gorman, Bill (February 16, 2011). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Teen Mom 2' Leads; 'The Game' Slips + 'Tosh.0,' 'Southland,' 'Lights Out' & More". TV by the Numbers. Tribune Media Services. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ↑ Seidman, Robery (February 24, 2011). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Teen Mom 2' & 'Tosh.0' Lead Night; 'White Collar' Up; Miami 'Housewives' Not So Hot + 'Lights Out' & Much More". TV by the Numbers. Tribune Media Services. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ↑ Gorman, Bill (March 2, 2011). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Teen Mom 2' Leads; 'Tosh.0,' 'Southland,' 'White Collar' Fall; 'Lights Out' Rises & More". TV by the Numbers. Tribune Media Services. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ↑ Seidman, Robert (March 9, 2011). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'White Collar' and 'Southland' Finales Rise + 'Lights Out,' 'Teen Mom' & More". TV by the Numbers. Tribune Media Services. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
External links
- Official website (U.S.)
- Official website (Canada)
- Official Facebook page
