Editor’s note: Spoilers exist below. Do not read this post if you want to avoid knowing who died on “The Vampire Diaries” Friday night.
Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley) didn’t live long enough to see “The Vampire Diaries” series finale score season-high TV ratings.
Friday night’s 9 p.m. series finale landed a 0.5 rating/2 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic, and 1.19 million total viewers, according to preliminary measurements. Those Live + Same Day Nielsen numbers represent the show’s best demo figure since Feb. 26, 2016, and its most overall eyeballs since Jan. 29, 2016.
Among young women — meaning both the adults 18-34 millennials demo and the wider-ranging 18-49 one — the “Vampire Diaries” conclusion scored a 0.7/3.