Posted on 02/01/2016 9:34:19 AM PST by Mariner
Grease will be the word in the halls of Fox this week. The network's three-hour live telecast of the musical was a ratings success.
Nielsen has the performance averaging 12.2 million viewers and a handsome 4.3 rating among adults 18-49. That's after early numbers gave the performance a 7.4 overnight rating among households. Fox easily had first-place status on broadcast for the night and saw its score in the key demo rival TV's biggest live musical in recent memory.
This being the network's first live musical, its only ratings comparisons will be to NBC's last three efforts. Topping the first of them, 2013's The Sound of Music Live, was an all-but-impossible task. The show attracted 18.3 million live viewers and a 4.6 rating with adults 18-49 after an initial 10.9 overnight rating among households. 2014 follow-up Peter Pan sunk, but December's The Wiz rebounded a bit with 11 million viewers.
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X Files tonight. No room for Pink Ladies.
“You know, not everyone can be a perfect dancer, perfect actress, and perfect dancer simultaneously at the same time.”
Only in the department of redundancy department.
On the east coast the nfl post game trophy presentation pushed into the x files time slot and cut off the last half of the 1st episode. I depended on my dvr to catch the show but it stopped on time just like it was supposed to. Bummer. :/
My wife and I enjoyed it. Sort of a live movie.
Don’t know why I said NBC! Their previous productions didn’t come close.
Over 20 acres of sets.
It was either Grease or the Pro-Bowl.
I chose the Pro-Bowl.
The Pro-Bowl was awful.
It was a very nice blend of the two.
It’s streamable now on the FOXNOW app!
Grease was an artistic jewel.
The very biggest Broadway production in history, I'm sure. And it was done well.
The actors had tears in their eyes for the final bow.
It was a FANTASTIC PRODUCTION.
(the audio was low on some singers, but it was live)
I’m not saying that the boys in that picture look gay, but if they were gay, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Dude, it's Broadway.
They have to butch up to play a homosexual.
it was ok in my head. not my fingers.
spell check should have caught that.
I see it now available Fox on demand
Perfect!
Perfect!
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