LA INK

After being fired from the hit program Miami Ink due to a dispute with her fellow cast members, Kat Von D moved back to Los Angeles to open her own tattoo shop and was offered her spin off. Initially, she hired her close friend Pixie Acia to be the shop manager, and also her good friend Corey Miller as the tattoo artist. After considering many more artists for the job, Kat hired Hannah Aitchison and Kim Saigh to work for her as well. The cameras follow her as she opens the shop and capture everything that unfolds in between. Each customer that comes into the shop usually has a story or reason behind their tattoo, and on occasion celebrities come in as well to get a tattoo by Kat or the other artists. As the show progressed changes occurred throughout the series, including Kat firing Pixie at the end of season 2, and Kim and Hannah leaving the show in the season 3 finale. Season four premiered with a new shop manager, former Rock of Love competitor Aubry Fisher.Kat broke a Guinness world record on the show, tattooing 400 people in 24 hours, with the money raised going to charity.

LA Ink premiered on August 7, 2007, averaging 2.9 million total viewers at its time slot. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the number makes the show the most-watched series debut for the cable channel since the premiere of What Not to Wear in January 2003. This is also the highest-rated series premiere in the history of TLC among adults 18-34, with a rating of 2.6 and a viewer count of 1.5 million. The premiere was also the highest-rated basic cable prime time program last Tuesday among several major adult demographics, including 18-34, 18-49 and [...]