Well, now ain’t that something unexpected. Bravo’s season two premiere of “Shahs of Sunset” delivered its highest-rated episode –ever– in all key demos this past Sunday with 2.3 million total viewers and 1.4 million in the 18-49 category. To put things in perspective, that’s about as many people as watch TLC’s highly-popular Here Comes Honey Boo Boo starring Toddlers and Tiaras’ Alana Thompson.The season two premiere was up 102% among 18-49 and up 106% among total viewers from the season one premiere. Compared to the season one finale, Shahs of Sunset was up 50% among total viewers (vs. 1,534,000).

If you missed the premiere episode, you can watch the first ten minutes of it here, in addition to the show promo trailer and other tidbits.