ABC’s ‘Roseanne’ opens as the season’s top premiereABC’S ‘ROSEANNE’ OPENS AS THE SEASON’S TOP PREMIERE AND DRIVES IMPROVEMENT ACROSS TUESDAY NIGHTABC Dominates Tuesday With a 4½-Year High on the Night in Adults 18-49 ABC’s ‘Roseanne’ Opens as the Season’s Top Premiere and as Tuesday’s Highest-Rated Entertainment Telecast in 6 Years ABC’s ‘black-ish’ Soars to New Season Highs With Its 2nd Largest-Ever Audience ABC’s ‘Splitting Up Together’ Debut Scores Multiyear Time Slot Highs ABC’s ‘For The People’ Spikes Week to Week to Deliver New Series Highs ABC’s Tuesday Primetime (8:00-11:00 p.m. – 9.9 million and 2.8/11 in AD18-49): Towering over NBC’s “The Voice” and CBS’ “NCIS” in the 8:00-9:00 p.m. hour to rank as Tuesday’s No. 1 TV show, ABC’s 1-hour premiere of “Roseanne” opened with an average audience of 18.2 million viewers and a 5.1/21 in Adults 18-49, building from its first half-hour to its second half-hour. “Roseanne” scored Tuesday’s top-rated entertainment telecast in 6 years with young adults – since 2/28/12. “Roseanne” opened with TV’s highest Adult 18-49 rating for any comedy telecast on any night in 3½ years – since CBS’ “The Big Bang Theory” season opener on 9/22/14. “Roseanne” delivered ABC’s best results in the 1-hour time period since November 2006 in viewers and since November 2009 in young adults – since 11/14/06 and 11/3/09, respectively. “Roseanne’s” return built on its May 1997 finale telecast 21 years ago by 10% in Total Viewers (18.2 million vs. 16.6 million on 5/20/97), outdrawing its final 12 telecasts that season. In viewers and young adults, “Roseanne” stands as the season’s strongest premiere as well as the No. 1 regularly scheduled scripted telecast this season. Dominating its slot with new season highs at 9:00 p.m., “black-ish” built for the 2nd consecutive week, shooting up by 123% in Total Viewers (8.7 million vs. 3.9 million) and by 136% in Adults 18-49 (2.6/10 vs. 1.1/4). ABC’s “black-ish” drew its 2nd largest audience ever(behind only its series debut on 9/24/14) and its best young adult performance since November 2014 (since 11/19/14). Winning the 9:30 p.m. half-hour, ABC’s debut of “Splitting Up Together” more than doubled the year-ago midseason premiere in the slot of “Imaginary Mary” (on 4/4/17) with Total Viewers (+106% – 7.2 million vs. 3.5 million) and Adults 18-49 (+144% – 2.2/8 vs. 0.9/3), attracting the Net’s best series numbers to the half-hour since 2013 – since 5/21/13 and 9/24/13, respectively. In addition, “Splitting Up Together” stood as ABC’s best Tuesday comedy debut since September 2015 – since 9/22/15 with “The Muppets.” At 10:00 p.m., ABC’s “For The People” spiked week to week by 33% in Total Viewers (3.6 million vs. 2.7 million) and by 50% in Adults 18-49 (0.9/4 vs. 0.6/3), marking new series highs. Source: The Nielsen Company, Fast Affiliate Live + Same Day Ratings, 3/27/18. *COPYRIGHT ©2018 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All photography is copyrighted material and is for editorial use only. Images are not to be archived, altered, duplicated, resold, retransmitted or used for any other purposes without written permission of ABC. Images are distributed to the press in order to publicize current programming. Any other usage must be licensed. Photos posted for Web use must be at the low resolution of 720dpi, no larger than 2×3 in size. Salima Merchant Pons Rongavilla March 28, 2018 2:49pm ET by ABC Publicity |
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