A half hour after ABC's enormous Agents of SHIELD premiere came to an end, ABC premiered new comedy Trophy Wife. It averaged a 2.3 demo, down about a quarter from its The Goldbergs lead-in (3.1). It beat competing comedy The Mindy Project (1.5) rather convincingly and also faced The Voice (5.4 at 9:30) and NCIS: Los Angeles (2.9 at 9:30).
WEEK TWO
SHIELD's 30% drop caused reverberations throughout the rest of ABC's all-newbie Tuesday, but it was with Trophy Wife that it started to get really ugly. It posted a 1.4 demo, down a whooping 39% week-to-week, and it fell 36% behind its The Goldbergs lead-in (2.2).
PROGNOSIS
Even before this show premiered, I was hoping Trophy Wife would be able to find some way out of what seemed like very sub-optimal scheduling or, if nothing else, that it'd become this season's The New Normal and be able to hold onto this season's Go On well enough to get a back nine. But it's hard to envision any kind of rescue scenario coming to pass after Trophy Wife's 1.4 followed immediately by Super Fun Night (the show occupying what I see as TW's "best" timeslot) premiering at a 3.2. Trophy Wife might be able to make it through the fall, but the steep erosion from The Goldbergs means it'll be lucky to air in 2014. Cancel.
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2 comments:
It will air its 13 and then never be seen again.
Sad as it is, it turned into a clear cancel. This would have been a perfect fit after MF, so sad.
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