The Breakdown: ABC Tuesday in 2023-24 (Dancing with the Stars, Will Trent, The Rookie and more!)

It's time for a journey through the ABC Tuesday schedule in 2023-24...


fall

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2022-23	Bachelor in Paradise				Bachelor in Paradise	Bachelor in Paradise	Bachelor in Paradise	The Rookie: Feds		The Rookie: Feds	108
	2022-23	131		131	131		131	63		63		108
2023-24	Dancing with the Stars				Dancing with the Stars	Dancing with the Stars	Dancing with the Stars	Press Your Luck		Press Your Luck	130 (+20%)
	2023-24	161 (+23%)		161 (+23%)	161 (+23%)		161 (+23%)	67 (+7%)		67 (+7%)		129.656378492838
VsAvg	+47%		0.471087152371564	+41%		0.405118206958185	-13%		-0.127852208219763	+29%
Rank	2/25		2/25	2/25		2/25	18/25		18/25	2/25

Following just one year as a Disney+-only streaming property, Dancing with the Stars returned to ABC with a bang, handily outrating its already impressive fall 2021 season (145).

winter

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2022-23	The Rookie		The Rookie	The Rookie: Feds		The Rookie: Feds	Will Trent		Will Trent	93
	2022-23	126		126	81		81	71			71	93
2023-24	Will Trent		Will Trent	The Rookie		The Rookie	The Good Doctor		The Good Doctor	82 (-12%)
	2023-24	94 (-25%)		94.0025433443187	93 (+14%)		93 (+14%)	58 (-19%)			58 (-19%)	81.7031451497349
VsAvg	+4%		0.038369520643237	+10%		0.102779013022183	-18%		-0.182902413637551	0%
Rank	9/25		9/25	7/25		7/25	17/25		17/25	11/25

After four Celebrity Jeopardy! eps in January (following a Wednesday run in the fall), the scripted lineup returned in February with some reshuffling, as Will Trent benefited from the 8/7c hour and The Rookie slid to 9/8c, while longtime Monday vet The Good Doctor quietly wrapped its run at 10/9c.

spring

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2022-23	The Rookie		The Rookie	The Rookie: Feds		The Rookie: Feds	Will Trent		Will Trent	77
	2022-23	104		104	67		67	61			61	77
2023-24	Will Trent		Will Trent	The Rookie		The Rookie	The Good Doctor		The Good Doctor	70 (-9%)
	2023-24	86 (-17%)		85.8447792356662	76 (+14%)		76 (+14%)	50 (-19%)			50 (-19%)	70.4234674687327
VsAvg	+5%		0.0486766769838797	-19%		-0.189090045606934	-30%		-0.299037576075985	-14%
Rank	11/25		11/25	18/25		18/25	21/25		21/25	20/25

The spring y2y trends were quite similar, though the local programming-supported Will Trent held up a little better than the others.

Rating the Ratings

Name	Lo	Avg	Hi	y2y	Plus	Label	Plusy2y	Results
Dancing with the Stars Fall*	0.5	0.61	0.9		161	big hit		detail
Celebrity Jeopardy!	0.4	0.44	0.6	-5%	117	solid	+6%	detail
Will Trent	0.3	0.34	0.4	+16%	88	marginal	+31%	detail
The Rookie*	0.2	0.31	0.4	-29%	81	marginal	-20%	detail
Press Your Luck	0.2	0.31	0.4		82	marginal		detail
The Good Doctor*	0.1	0.20	0.3	-39%	51	flop	-31%	detail

Dancing with the Stars Fall: I might have considered an A in a vacuum but it needs to be ranked a notch behind other staples like The Bachelor and Survivor which had much bigger surges. Still, it was roughly +10% vs. two years ago, and another year of growth like this could put it very close to its historic highs from circa 2010-11. Grade: A-.

Will Trent: It's yet another example of big growth in a move to 8/7c, but I would not put this on the same level as the two flashiest recent examples (S.W.A.T. two years ago and The Rookie last year). Both of those shows had bigger seasonal growth even though they aired only a portion of their seasons at 8/7c, and backed it up by doing very well at 10/9c in the other part of the season. Will Trent in season one was not really that different from how The Rookie looked in its 10/9c years, and didn't get the same kind of pop (rating substantially behind Rookie itself in the slot last year). However, it still did fine for this slot historically and held up pretty well in the spring. Grade: B.

The Rookie: On the flip side, moving out of the 8/7c hour can look artificially brutal. 81 Plus is still enough to outrate all of its Sunday 10/9c seasons, and it looked similar to the Plus ratings after American Idol in the winter/spring of those seasons. It may be a bit stronger than it was then, but I'd still say this is a little weaker than its breakout performance a year ago. Grade: C+.

The Good Doctor: Finally moved away from its big reality lead-ins on Monday, it was a brutal end for a one-time breakout that never really stopped the bleeding, but had mostly kept it at a pretty manageable level. It should have been more competitive with Will Trent's numbers in the hour last year. Grade: D.

The names in this last table link to the shows' War of 18-49 pages. Links with an asterisk(*) have been updated with the new info. Updates to younger shows will come later in the summer.

Previous Breakdowns for ABC Tuesday: 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23

Here's the now updated Schedules Plus for ABC Tuesday.