The 9pm episode of Anger Management drew a 2.1 adults 18-49 rating and the 9:30p episode averaged a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating (the highest-rated show for the night with adults 18-49 on all of TV, broadcast or cable.) Over 45% of those polled predicted the premiere would do better than a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating and they were correct!
via press note:
Last night’s series debut of Anger Management (9P) was the most-watched scripted comedy primetime series premiere in cable history in delivery of Adults 18-49 (2.65 million), and Total Viewers (5.47 million, excluding children’s programming). It also ranks as the most-watched series premiere in FX history in Total Viewers. Episode 2 of Anger Management (9:30P) grew to 5.74 million Total Viewers, and the demo also grew in the second half hour to 2.89 million A18-49.
The Season 2 premiere of Wilfred and Season 3 premiere of Louie posted significant growth over their prior season averages – (Wilfred +71% and Louie+55% in Total Viewers). Last night’s season 2 premiere of Wilfred delivered 2.53 million Total Viewers and 1.5 million Adults 18-49 (Wilfred Season 1 averages were 1.48 million Total Viewers and 973,000 Adults 18-49) Last night’s season 3 premiere of Louie delivered 1.43 million Total Viewers and 911,000 Adults 18-49 (Louie Season 2 averages were 923,000 Total Viewers and 647,000 Adults 18-49)
Last night’s season premieres for both of those series were the second highest-rated episodes in their history and will likely be their highest-rated episodes ever when Live+7 data is available in three weeks.
And the series premiere of FX’s new late night comedy BrandX with Russell Brand got off to a good start in the 11P time slot with 1.1 million Total Viewers and 687,000 Adults 18-49, which marked respective increases of +32% and +38% vs. FX time-period average.
(Source: The Nielsen Company, Live+Same Day, Fast Nationals, subject to change)
That’s like what? 2.1-2.2?
Wow. That’s big.
Good for Wilfred! And I might give Anger Management a try.
Oops. Sara put the demo already.
this proves charlie sheen still has it as ralph malph would say..”I still got it”.. WINNING!!!
Anger Management was alright. I like the second episode more. It’s a typical multi-cam sitcom with laugh tracks but in terms of quality I say it’s decent. Charlie’s basically the same though except he’s in TAAHM Alan’s situation with the ex-wife (played by my favourite character on Becker, was totally surprised to see her
) and OCD daughter.
I think the cast need to find their chemistry first. The jokes were a little forced because it felt like they didn’t know each other despite making personal jokes with one another.
Two and a half men lost around 5-6 million viewers over the last season, looks like those viewers all went to charlie’s new show
Pretty much exactly what I expected! Good for Charlie! But damn, it’s a terrible show. I think it’ll end up getting about 2 million viewers by the end of the first season.
Good, not as good as I was expecting.
If Jersey Shore could grab almost a 5 in its prime, you’d have thought a 3 would have been possible for CHARLIE SHEEN’S RETURN TO SITCOMS
How many people were watching just to see if Sheen would start ranting in the middle of a scene?
I watched enough to know it’s a very weak show. Then I went elsewhere, and came back to watch Louie.
Sheen has lost a lot of weight.
CBS didn’t lose a damn thing.
Except 6 million viewers who will never watch 2 and a half men again like me
Congrats Charlie! I enjoyed the show! The 2nd episode was better but I still enjoyed it!
I’m not the biggest Charlie Sheen fan, but the show was surprisingly good. I’ll continue to watch it.
Only people hating this news is Chuck Lorre and Charlie haters……
I was very excited about the show coming on…..glad for Charlie Sheen!!! But DAMN!!!!! that had to be the worst comedy I have seen in my life. I only watched the first episode. Not one thing funny!!!! I think Charlie is great, but he must have some horrible writers. That is the worst show I’ve ever seen!!!
I would have never known this show was a comedy..thank god for the laugh track playing after every other characters line to remind me.
It will lose half of its audiance next week.
Charlie made 2@1/2 men and his new show is funny and hopefully can only get better.
That’s higher than most nbc sitcoms
Wish they was in the same slots then we would really see who won
Even if it falls to 2-3m, it’s still great for FX, I imagine that 90 episode order has been triggered.