‘Night Court’ Reboot Scores Best Comedy Debut Ratings In More Than 5 Years On NBC
deadline.comThe two-episode premiere of Night Court ushered in some impressive ratings for NBC. The workplace comedy series, which is reboot of the original series created by Reinhold Weege that ran for nine seasons in the 1980s, debuted with back-to-back episodes on Tuesday.
The first episode delivered the highest-rated and most-watched program of the night with a whopping 1.0 rating in the advertiser-targeted 18-49 demographic, according to fast national Nielsen numbers.
That’s a feat that no network show has managed this season without an assist from an NFL lead-in, and the number is likely to go up slightly when final live+same-day numbers are available on Thursday (Nielsen data is delayed this week due to Monday’s MLK holiday).
The episode also managed 7.4M total viewers. The second episode, which aired at 8:30 p.m., was the No. 2 program in both ratings and viewership on Tuesday.
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