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Monday, February 23, 2015

The Question, Monday 2/23/15: Can The Night Shift Handle a Regular Season Shift?


Faced with one of the most disastrous new series classes for a network in recent memory, NBC is trying something unconventional with its spring season of The Voice: using it to lead into sophomore series that first aired in the summer. It starts tonight with The Voice's premiere followed by the medical drama The Night Shift. TNS had a good lead-in from America's Got Talent last summer, and it proved a reasonable improvement on some other stuff that aired post-Talent in recent seasons. It's still hard to label the season one performance as anything more than modest, but it now gets to try on an even bigger stage. Can The Night Shift handle a regular season shift? That's The Question for Monday, February 23, 2015.


Post-The Voice Drama Launches Voice & Night Shift Recent Seasons
3.8 (Smash, 2/6/12, 6.7 The Voice)
4.1 (Revolution, 9/17/12, 4.7 The Voice)
3.8 (The Blacklist, 9/23/13, 5.1 The Voice)
2.7 (Chicago Fire s2, 9/24/13, 4.7 Voice)
2.7 (Believe, 3/10/14, 3.7 The Voice)
2.2 (State of Affairs, 11/17/14, 3.1 Voice)
5.1 (Voice fall 2013 premiere)
4.7 (Voice spring 2014 premiere)
4.1 (Voice fall 2014 premiere)
1.6 (The Night Shift premiere, 3.0 Talent)
1.36 (The Night Shift season 1 average)

Since this isn't a brand new series, The Night Shift's premiere probably won't be as inflated as most of the shows in the left column. Beyond that, I saw little during the summer to indicate the series was nearly as strong as even the Chicago series, much less previous occupant The Blacklist. But I think this lead-in still gets The Night Shift to a series high by a fairly comfortable margin.

Over/Under: 2.15.

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