| Fox Tuesday Comedy Averages | Fox Tuesday Comedy Premieres/Finales |
| 2.16 (Raising Hope) 1.40 (I Hate My Teenage Daughter) (Tue) 3.23 (New Girl) 1.44 (Breaking In) | 4.8 -> 2.8 (New Girl) 3.1 -> 1.8 (Raising Hope) |
There are two new shows in this lineup, but I would argue the results from New Girl are at least as important and unpredictable. If it can't make much of a rally from its ugly spring numbers, this whole night could end up pretty hopeless from the get-go. It seems virtually impossible that the show gets back to last year's pre-baseball numbers, but I remain optimistic that a well-regarded sophomore sitcom can get some bounce-back from the late-season numbers on a premiere night with two other heavily-promoted newbies in the mix. Even on CBS' weak premiere Monday, 2 Broke Girls was able to build on the late-season numbers.
Over/Under for Fox from 8:00 to 10:00: 2.8.
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14 comments:
Over.
Over
Sorry, changed my mind: under.
NG has stiffer competition from Go On and I can't imagine B&K or Mindy growing from their lead-in. Love to be proved wrong.
Over. I think New Girl will rally (although not the point of last year's premiere) and Mindy will have excellent retention.
Over. I'm expecting a big bounceback for New Girl now that the younger audience isn't out as late
New Girl: 3.2
B&K: 2.8
New Girl 3.6
Mindy: 3.5
Over
NG- 2.9
B&K- 2.6
NG- 3.1
Mindy- 2.9
Average: 2.875
Under.
Yesterday CBS comedy lineup barely averaged over 3.0. Then I can't see weaker Fox lineup nowhere near 3.0 average.
Over. New Girl should be decent and it grew from it's Glee lead-in last year so Mindy could (hopefully) do the same. B&K will probably be the weak link but not enough to go under.
Under. I don't think there's enough momentum behind Ben and Kate to get it a good launch even w/ New Girl in its corner. And even if New Girl comes back in the mid 3s (i.e. right around post-baseball numbers) I think Mindy Project is also a weaker launch, too.
Over but only just and thanks only to NG
Under.
New Girl - 2.5
Ben & Kate - 2.4
New Girl - 2.9
Mindy Project - 2.7
Under.
I will go with Over but it's a biiig bet and I really think it will be hard to judge until the ABC comedies are in play as well (even if I think they will be the lowest rated ones, last night's 10pm proved how serious crossed audience is). As for today, as I've said over at tvbythenumbers, Ben and Kate and Mindy depend almost exclusively on what New Girl does and that's a big big question mark that I really cannot get into. So many factor:
- last fall's super ratings
- the sharp spring decline
- sophomore bounce for comedies
- lower viewership for CBS sticoms yesterday
- absence of Glee in the night
- competition with Go On
It just feels too hard to predict. I don't think I will be shocked (surprised, ok) either with a 2.0 or with a 4.0 for New Girl to be honest, anything can happen. That of course will determine what happens with the other two comedies. So basically Fox is in the hands of Zoey Deschanel at this moment.
But wasn't that mostly Partners crapping the bed? I don't expect B&K to drop that much compared to the others.
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