Nice try, CW. Season 3 of FBoy Island debuted on Monday, and another trio of women are setting out to find the Nice Guy in a sea of “manipulative douche-baggery,” as host Nikki Glaser so eloquently put it.
But, audiences don’t appear to be taking note. The reality format, which was scooped up by The CW after being canceled at Max following the first two seasons, aired to pretty abysmal ratings during primetime.
An average of about 158,000 people tuned in across the two-hour premiere, which also flatlined with a 0.02 rating among adults 18-49, according to live+same-day Nielsen data.
It’s not exactly a surprise that FBoy Island isn’t starting off as a hit for the network, whose parent company Nexstar has repeatedly stressed that the average CW viewer is 58 years old — which was also used partially as the justification for canceling nearly all of its young adult-focused scripted series last year.
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