The Question, Sunday 1/4/15: Will Galavant Make Ratings Music?

The winter TV season really gets going tonight, a Sunday evening with no primetime NFL game but a lot of overall viewership due to the NFL playoff games in the late afternoon. Of greatest interest in the entertainment world is ABC's premiere of musical comedy "extravaganza" Galavant. It's certainly not the typical broadcast series, and it's gotten a solid amount of promotion through the holiday season. But ABC is double-pumping the full run across just four weeks in January, ending the show before February sweeps. Will Galavant make ratings music? That's The Question for Sunday, January 4, 2015.

Once Upon a Time This Season

3.5 (premiere, 9/28/14) 2.52 (fall average) 1.7 (finale, 12/14/14)

The first January of the year has often been ripe for a ratings surprise due to the external factors listed above. That and the unique concept may keep Galavant from going completely off the map out of the gate. (The next couple weeks against big event competition are another story.) However, ABC's scheduling of the series does not seem like a vote of confidence, and some of the target audience may just stick with the cartoons on Fox. So I'm pretty skeptical that this show can sniff at even the lowest Once numbers in the slot.

Over/Under: 1.45. (If the finals separate the 8:00 and 8:30 episodes, the over/under for the sum of the two will be 2.85.)

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