Update:<\/b> Airing out of “The Voice” (3.2 adults 18-49 rating, 12.45 million viewers), the season premiere of NBC’s “Undateable” drew a respectable 1.9 adults 18-49 rating with 6.43 million viewers.<\/p>\n
The series premiere of “One Big Happy” followed with a 1.6 rating and 5.47 million viewers.<\/p>\n
Collectively, the two powered NBC to first place in the re-run-heavy 9PM hour. Neither show, however, performed as well as the respective series and season launches of “Marry Me” and “About a Boy” did on October 14, 2014.<\/p>\n
Leading out of that night’s “The Voice” (3.4, 12.34 million viewers), “Marry Me” opened with a 2.3 rating and 7.54 million viewers. “About a Boy” followed with a 1.7 and 5.83 million. Those numbers also came against a fuller slate of competition.<\/p>\n
Numbers for those shows quickly and unfortunately faded as their seasons progressed; attention will thus turn to how well “Undateable” and “One Big Happy” hold up in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
NBC closed THIS Tuesday evening with “Chicago Fire” (1.6, 6.96 million).
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Neither obviously positive nor obviously negative, the overnight ratings do not provide a firm assessment of how NBC’s “Undateable” and “One Big Happy” performed in their respective season and series premieres.<\/p>\n
What they do offer, however, is a point of comparison to the fall 2014 launches of “Marry Me” and “About a Boy.”<\/p>\n
Airing out of a similarly rated “The Voice” (8.2 overnight household rating this Tuesday vs. an 8.3 overnight rating on October 14, 2014), “Undateable” drew a 4.3 overnight household rating. “One Big Happy,” its lead-out, posted a 3.8 in the 9:30PM slot.<\/p>\n
Those numbers trail the corresponding data for the October 14 “Marry Me” series premiere (5.6) and the “About a Boy” season premiere (4.2). The “Undateable” number, however, bests the 2.7 attracted by its summer 2014 series premiere.<\/p>\n
There is no guarantee that the “Undateable” and “One Big Happy” premieres will trail “Marry Me” and “About a Boy” in adults 18-49 and viewership to the same extent they do in the overnights. There is, however, ample reason to doubt that they offered anything approximating meaningful improvement<\/i>.<\/p>\n
If they hold up as the season continues, however, they could quickly establish themselves as more valuable.<\/p>\n
The fall comedies–particularly “Marry Me”–opened respectively, but they dipped into concerning territory as the season progressed.<\/p>\n
Adults 18-49 and viewership data will be available shortly after 11AM Eastern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048,437],"tags":[1562,2308,210,3291,2681],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n