‘Night Court’ reboot earns highest comedy debut ratings on NBC in over 5 years

‘Night Court’ reboot earns highest comedy debut ratings on NBC in over 5 years

The premiere of two episodes of night court led to some impressive ratings for NBC.

The comedy series At Work, a reboot of Reinhold Weege’s original series that ran for nine seasons in the 1980s, debuted back-to-back episodes on Tuesday. The first episode delivered the highest-rated and most-watched show of the night, with a whopping 1.0 in the advertiser target audience of 18-to-49-year-olds, according to flash national numbers from Nielsen.

That’s a feat no network show has accomplished this season without the help of an NFL headliner, and the number is likely to rise slightly when the final Live + Same Day numbers are available Thursday (Nielsen data was delayed this week ). holidays). The episode also drew a total of 7.4 million viewers.

The second episode, which aired at 8:30 p.m., was No. 2 on Tuesday’s show in both ratings and viewers. It easily fell to a demo score of 0.9, which is still very high even for an established series. The episode averaged 6.7 million viewers.

The back-to-back episode premiere was the highest total viewership for any comedy premiere since then The Connors premiered on ABC in 2018 and has been primetime on NBC ever since will and grace in 2017. It is also by far the top broadcast premiere of the television season and the top comedy premiere on both broadcast and cable.

night court follows in her father’s footsteps as she runs the night shift at a Manhattan courthouse and tries to bring order to the eccentric crew and cynics, led by former night court district attorney Dan Fielding, with John Larroquette reprising his role.

Author: Katie Campione

Source: Deadline

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