The Question, Tuesday 1/6/15: Will Agent Carter Be a Ratings Marvel?

For the second time in three nights, ABC is premiering a short-run show designed to fill in for a serialized drama during its hiatus. In this case, that show is ABC's second dip in the Marvel Comics pool, Marvel's Agent Carter. Though it's not quite as closely tied to the ongoing stories in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Agents of SHIELD, it also brings a prominent character from one of those movies to the table. It explores the 1940s life of Peggy Carter, one of the lead characters in the first Captain America movie. Will Agent Carter be a ratings marvel? That's The Question for Tuesday, January 6, 2015.

Agents of SHIELD This Season

2.0 (premiere, 9/23/14) 1.69 (fall average) 1.7 (finale, 12/9/14)

It seems impossible that this show will capture the same kind of massive premiere audience that Agents of SHIELD did sixteen months ago, but it still might have enough of a movie connection to bring back some of the crowd who gave up on SHIELD early in season one. I always figured this could premiere somewhat better than the upper-1's SHIELD has been doing lately, and I'm not exactly discouraged after seeing how respectably Galavant started off on Sunday.

Over/Under: 2.25. (If the finals separate the 8:00 and 9:00 episodes, the over/under for the sum of the two will be 4.45.)

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