--- description: Shark didn't tank title: Sharknado 2: The Second One Reels in 3.9 Million Viewers image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte35cc4dc6358f7c3/69869dc3cd6848b9f8095dd2/nup_164358_0005.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Sharknado 2_ Reels in 3.9 Million Viewers  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Jul 31, 2014 8:48 PM CUT  Sharknado 2: The Second One Sharknado 2: The Second OneSyfy  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Jul 31, 2014 8:48 PM CUT Syfy’s _Shaknado 2: The Second One_ drew 3.9 million viewers Wednesday night, 183% more than the 1.4 million people who tuned into the original in July 2013, according to Nielsen ratings. The campy action/comedy scored a 1.3 rating among viewers under 50, tripling its 0.4 rating from last year. It also took a bite out of its competition, CBS’ Halle Berry drama _Extant_ and Fox’s _So You Think You Can Dance_, which both scored lower ratings. Nielsen also found that _Sharknado 2_ topped Nielsen’s Twitter TV ratings Daily Top Five list with 581,000 tweets. A third _Sharknado_ movie is already in the works for summer 2015. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3067081/sharknado-2-ratings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3067081/sharknado-2-ratings/"},"headline":"Sharknado 2 Reels in 3.9 Million Viewers","datePublished":"2014-07-31T20:48:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:27:20.895Z","description":"Shark didn't tank","url":"https://time.com/3067081/sharknado-2-ratings/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte35cc4dc6358f7c3/69869dc3cd6848b9f8095dd2/nup_164358_0005.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte35cc4dc6358f7c3/69869dc3cd6848b9f8095dd2/nup_164358_0005.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sharknado 2: The Second One","caption":"Sharknado 2: The Second One","creditText":"Syfy","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3067081/sharknado-2-ratings/","name":"Sharknado 2 Reels in 3.9 Million Viewers"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"'Sharknado 2' Celebrity Cameos","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/hbfU2wk1/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-07-31T00:47:54.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hbfU2wk1.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3067081/sharknado-2-ratings/","duration":"PT35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3067081/sharknado-2-ratings/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```