International Courant
CBS’ replace on Matlock introduced in a robust viewers for its premiere Sunday evening.
The authorized drama starring Kathy Bates — which shares a reputation and fundamental premise with the Nineteen Eighties-90s collection starring Andy Griffith, however not a lot else — introduced in 7.73 million viewers for its debut. Excluding reveals that debuted after the Tremendous Bowl, that is the most important collection premiere viewers for a CBS present in additional than 5 years (since The Code adopted an NCIS episode in April 2019).
The 7.73 million viewers additionally would have ranked within the prime 5 amongst CBS’ same-day audiences for scripted reveals final season (once more, not together with the post-Tremendous Bowl premiere for Tracker).
Matlock turned within the greatest same-day viewers among the many handful of community reveals that had season or collection premieres final week (the Nielsen-measured 2024-25 season formally begins Monday). Among the many others, ABC’s Dancing With the Stars drew the largest complete viewers (4.97 million viewers), a little bit forward of Survivor (4.72 million) on CBS. The 2 reveals tied for the highest score amongst adults 18-49 at 0.73, equal to about 980,000 folks in that age vary.
Excessive Potential adopted DWTS on ABC Sept. 17 with 3.59 million viewers, a very good bit forward of The Good Physician’s same-day common (2.48 million) within the 10 pm Tuesday spot final spring.
Scores for the premiere of Rescue: Hello-Surf on Fox Sunday — which adopted the community’s NFL doubleheader — weren’t accessible at publication time. Earlier within the month, the community’s animated collection Common Primary Guys premiered to 4.03 million viewers with an NFL lead-in however dropped below 1 million for its second episode.