True Blood not only had the NRL preseason football to contend with on Sunday night, but the MTV Video Music Awards as well. So these ratings, while down just a little from the Season 6 finale last year, are still very good numbers indeed. Overall though, True Blood’s Season 7 averaged – across all platforms – at total of 9.4 million viewers! And, according to Nielsen, True Blood came in second for scripted summer viewing in the US among young adults. Stephen King’s TV adaptation, Under the Dome came in at number 1 in this category.