‘9-1-1: Nashville’ Leads Stalwarts ‘9-1-1’ & ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ To Usher In Solid 35-Day Premiere Performance For ABC’s Thursday Night Dramas
EXCLUSIVE: ABC‘s Thursday night dramas are on hiatus until the new year, but the network is still seeing returns on the fall premieres of 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Nashville and Grey’s Anatomy just two short months ago.
Over 35 days of viewing, all three titles have landed among the Top 10 broadcast series in the 18-49 demo, per Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel report. 9-1-1: Nashville, the newest entrant in the popular 9-1-1 franchise, stands as the No. 1 new series in the demo.
The series premiere of 9-1-1: Nashville amassed 19.29M cross-platform viewers in 35 days, marking a 414% lift over the show’s initial live + same-day audience of 3.75M. That number includes encores, though excluding them the episode is still at a solid 10.44M total viewers, which . Among adults 18-49, the episode has a 2.15 rating.
In fact, excluding encores, Nashville is on par with its predecessor, the flagship 9-1-1 series, which is still putting up a solid audience nine seasons in.
The Season 9 premiere tallied 10.46M total cross-platform viewers and a 2.17 rating among adults 18-49 after 35 days. That’s a 148% increase over the same-day audience of 4.22M. The episode is up over the Season 8 finale, which drew 8.98M viewers in the same time frame, though it is down from the prior season’s premiere, which was approaching 10M viewers within seven days post-broadcast debut.
Speaking of shows still kicking many seasons in, Grey’s Anatomy certainly takes the cake there. The long-running medical drama returned for Season 21 with a premiere audience that, while lower than the previous season premiere, is still quite hefty, all things considered.
In 35 days, the Season 21 premiere episode managed 7.4M cross-platform viewers, which is the best audience it’s gotten since the Season 20 premiere, up 184% from the 2.61M who tuned in live + same-day.
All three dramas return with their midseason premieres on Thursday, January 8.
