EXCLUSIVE: Fox has set the standard for this season’s unscripted series with the debut of its latest series, Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.
The competition series earned 2.7M total viewers and a 0.6 rating among the advertiser-targeted 18-49 demographic in delayed viewing, according to live + three-day Nielsen data.
That makes it the top unscripted series debut of the 2022-2023 season. Special Forces debuted on January 4, marking Fox’s highest-rated and most-watched Wednesday debut in over a year, since the September 2021 premiere of Alter Ego, which scored 2.9M viewers and a 0.8 demo rating in L+3.
The series has also been a standout on streaming, becoming the network’s most-streamed two-hour unscripted debut in network history with 522,000 additional viewers in the three days after it aired.
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