It will flop because its Murphy Brown... Period.
This is a show that never held up... It was a flop in syndication.
It will get, I am sure a big, hit initially, and then die off in the ratings only to be held on too long by the networks because the “politics” of the show are “correct” and they won’t admit it was a mistake in the first place...
So like the Will and Grace revival, which ended its first season in the toilet, yet still got renewed for not one but 2 more seasons.. Murphy Brown will follow the same pattern... Unless of Course Trump actively engages with their lunacy and props it up.
What these shows need is GOOD-LOOKING chicks showing lots of skin!
Murphy Brown is on right now on one of my local re-run channels. Probably pretty cheap to get and your right it was never a syndication hit like say Seinfield, which 20 years after it went off still commands about $1 Million an episode in syndication.