The Question, Tuesday 2/25/14: Will About a Boy and Growing Up Fisher Grow Up From Their Preview Ratings?

Its comedy development in complete shambles, NBC will try to make something new worth keeping in this spring's About a Boy and Growing Up Fisher. The network decided to give each show a preview after the Olympics, something they also did in summer 2012 with Go On and Animal Practice. But while each of those previews in 2012 had lead-in coverage that broke a 9.0 rating, Saturday and Sunday's final half-hours couldn't even crack a three! With that in mind, each of these shows breaking a 2.0 wasn't the worst thing in the world. But what happens in their regular slots starting tonight is obviously much more important. Will About a Boy and Growing Up Fisher grow up from their preview ratings? That's The Question for Tuesday, February 25, 2014.

EDIT: NBC called an extremely late audible to re-air the preview episodes tonight, so this game will not count for win/loss records. However, everyone who entered gets the usual 0.1 point for participation, so please check in with the thread before the deadline if you were going to enter.

The Voice Last Night	Post-Olympic Previews
4.7 (spring 2014 Mon. premiere (prelim)) 5.1 -> 4.7 (Mon -> Tue premieres, fall 2013) 4.8 -> 4.1 (Mon -> Tue premieres, spring 2013)	2.2 (About a Boy, Sat 11:05, prelim 2.9 Olympics at 10:30) 2.0 (Growing Up Fisher, Sun 10:36, prelim 2.9 Olympics at 10:00)

There will be a few viewers who sought out these comedy previews over the weekend and then don't show up for Tuesday. But the bottom line is that Tuesday 9/8c after The Voice is actually a much better slot than what About a Boy had after the Olympics on lower-viewed Saturday. If it's going to have much of a shot at long-term success, About a Boy really should go higher than its Saturday preview on this night. I'm not quite as confident about Growing Up Fisher pulling that off in the 9:30 slot, but it could be close.

EDIT: NBC called an extremely late audible to re-air the preview episodes tonight, so this game will not count for win/loss records. However, everyone who entered gets the usual 0.1 point for participation, so please check in with the thread before the deadline if you were going to enter.

About a Boy PLUS Growing Up Fisher Over/Under: 4.55.

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