‘The Floor’ Season 3 Premiere Enjoys Post-Super Bowl Audience Boost, Averaging 14M Viewers
deadline.comFox‘s popular game show The Floor received quite a nice boost from Super Bowl LIX on Sunday. The network said Tuesday that the Season 3 premiere, which aired directly after the Philadelphia Eagles finished off the Kansas City Chiefs, drew 14 million viewers, easily a series-high audience.
While The Floor has had some promising same-day audiences, it averaged 2.2M same-day viewers per episode in Season 2. Sunday’s post-game episode also averaged a 3.7 Live+Same Day rating among adults 18-49, making it the highest-rated and most-watched unscripted entertainment series telecast in two years.
Post-Super Bowl programming always benefits from a nice lift, as viewers tend to hang around after the big game. For context, last year CBS debuted Tracker after the Super Bowl to about 18M viewers.
The last time Fox hosted the Super Bowl, Next Level Chef‘s Season 2 premiere got the coveted slot and managed 15.5M viewers.
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