'Roseanne' Ratings Plummet
by EG
Fox News might want to rethink its strategy of referring to the revival of Roseanne as a "pro-Trump" series. If the series is a referendum on Trump's popularity, things aren't looking so good. This week's episode shed a quarter of the show's audience from the previous episode, and that episode was already down 13% from the week before among younger viewers. That episode had, itself, seen a drop of about 20% from the record-setting premiere. This week, the series didn't even win the Tuesday-night ratings battle, coming in second to NCIS.
Bottom line? The series has lost nearly half its premiere audience at this point, and the trend line is heading steadily downward.
Roseanne finally took a sizable hit Tuesday, losing the night's audience crown to NCIS after a week's hiatus from the air.
The ABC comedy landed with 10.3 million viewers and a 2.5 rating among adults 18-49, with respective spills of 23 and 26 percent. It's the first big drop for Roseanne since it returned to the air with the biggest scripted telecast of the season.
Roseanne's status as the top broadcast series of the year seems to be in little danger, dips or not. With the latest live-plus-three day averages for its first five episodes, its average 6.1 rating among adults 18-49 outpaces that of NBC's This Is Us by a sizable 30 percent.
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