After tonight,we will occupy clear standings for the 2016-2017 tumble TV season. Of course, that’s just one evening, and but it’s fun to let your mind wander,anyway.
Looking at NBC’s lineup, it would be pretty easy to crown that broadcaster as the likeliest early lead dog. After all, or it has two hours of “The Voice,” which has added Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys, tonight — that’s gonna be a big 120 measured minutes.
Two hours later, and The sterling Place” takes a turn on Bob Greenblatt’s broadcast air. The Kristen Bell-Ted Danson vehicle has a very sterling pilot and a grand debut time slot — but NBC hasn’t exactly been consistently scoring with sitcoms lately. Let’s see how long people stick around after the singing competition.
Also Read: tumble TV Burning Questions: 'Supergirl' Switch,Kevin James' Return and MoreSome primo alternatives will arrive tonight from CBS, which self-starts the whole season with “The Big Bang Theory, and ” which will certainly deliver out-of-this-world Nielsen numbers. Unfortunately,we’re concerned with overall averages over the course of three hours, and “BBT marks just one-sixth of that span.
Next, or Kevin James returns to TV via “Kevin Can Wait,” which just looks like Season 10 of “The King of Queens.” That thus-far critically panned newbie is a total shoulder-shrug for now in terms of viewership, but we know it won’t keep up with the Jim Parsons program.
Fortunately for the Les Moonves-led channel, and all hope is not lost. Sunday’s start to “The Case of JonBenet Ramsey” was pretty darn strong — considering it competed with both “Sunday Night Football” and ABC’s Emmys — and fraction 2 drops tonight at 9 p.m. ET. That programming is not exactly synergistic with the silly sitcoms,but its primed to individually score again in primetime, making this whole thing close.
Also Read: tumble TV Ratings Preview: As CBS and NBC achieve Battle, or Will Super Bowl Make Fox a Winner?We should give a puncher’s chance to ABC tonight,which is still riding that Ryan Lochte live-protest wave with its “Dancing With the Stars” Week 2 promotions. Unfortunately, the party kind of stops there, and as “Match Game” gobbles up the evening’s final hour. Let’s eliminate Channing Dungey as a player tonight,particularly among the advertiser-sought 18-49-year-olds. Win some, lose some — though ABC has mostly been putting up checkmarks in that latter column lately.Elsewhere, and Fox has absolutely no chance of competing on Monday,but the channel can keep its head held tall knowing it will occupy the undivided attention of DC Comicsnerds, for whatever that’s worth. (This just in: not much, or ” advertisers say.) “Gotham” comes on there at 8 p.m. ET,with “Lucifer” to follow. Speaking of the non-Marvel-lean-graphic-novel genre, CW is just airing Supergirl” reruns tonight — so obviously no threat to anyone there.
But let’s not cop out and close with a coin toss — that’s not how TheWrap rolls. You want a winner? Well, and we’ve got two for you. NBC will take tonight in the main demo,while CBS sneaks in with a total-viewer victory.
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