The Question, Tuesday 9/17/13: Has Fox Tuesday Got Nine-Nine Problems?

Fox continues its early launch of scripted programs with tonight's new comedies Dads and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The shows may have one of the largest discrepancies in critical reception ever for two shows paired together, with Dads riding a pathetic 19 Metascore compared to Nine-Nine's 72 at the time of this writing. Tonight is absolutely essential for these shows; unlike last night's Sleepy Hollow, they go up against basically nothing (Million Second Quiz and repeats of NCIS and Iron Man 2) and they will face an absolute onslaught from Agents of SHIELD, NCIS and The Voice next week. Whatever happens tonight, there's a good chance we're in for massive week two declines, so a bad start tonight means you can probably pretty much forget about these shows. Has Fox Tuesday got Nine-Nine problems? That's The Question for Tuesday, September 17, 2013.

Recent Fox Comedy Premieres

3.1 (Raising Hope, 9/21/10, 5.6 Glee) 2.4 (Running Wilde, 9/21/10, 3.1 Raising Hope) 1.9 (Traffic Light, 2/8/11, 2.7 Raising Hope) 3.5 (Breaking In, 4/6/11, 7.8 American Idol) 4.8 (New Girl, 9/20/11, 4.0 Glee) 2.8 (I Hate My Teenage Daughter, 11/30/11, 4.1 X Factor) 2.1 (Ben and Kate, 9/25/12, 2.8 New Girl) 2.4 (The Mindy Project, 9/25/12, 2.8 New Girl)

Most of the Fox comedies have started decently enough, but then most of them had pretty good lead-in support. That won't be the case here, as this mis-matched duo has to self-start. Still, these shows have attracted enough attention that they could get close to the numbers for the relatively unappealing Ben and Kate against no competition.

Dads PLUS Brooklyn Nine-Nine Over/Under: 3.85.

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