‘Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage’ Off To Strong Start With 6.6M Viewers To Top Thursday; ‘Matlock’ Remains Solid In Time Slot Debut

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Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage is picking up where predecessors The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon left off — as the most watched program on broadcast Thursday night.

The Young Sheldon spinoff opened with 6.563 million total viewers in Live+Same Day linear ratings October 17 in the Thursday 8 p.m.

slot previously occupied by BBT and Young Sheldon, according to Nielsen data. That was the high mark for the night, which featured Thursday Night Football and two baseball playoffs games on cable/streaming as well as some of the most popular broadcast series, led by the top breakout of the season so far, CBS‘ Matlock.

Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage also logged the second most watched new series debut (L+SD) of the broadcast season so far behind Matlock and third most watched premiere overall, behind the Season 2 opener of Tracker (8.31M) and Matlock.