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TV Ratings: 'Grease Live' Surges on Fox, Nabs 12.2 Million Viewers
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | February 1st, 2016 | by Michael O'Connell

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: fox; grease; greaselive; live; musical; musicals; ratings
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To: higgmeister

X Files tonight. No room for Pink Ladies.


21 posted on 02/01/2016 10:18:54 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: garyb

“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.


22 posted on 02/01/2016 10:20:53 AM PST by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: Vermont Lt

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. :/


23 posted on 02/01/2016 10:34:19 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: sarasota
Grease Live was brilliantly done!

My wife and I enjoyed it. Sort of a live movie.

24 posted on 02/01/2016 10:44:46 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: catbertz

Don’t know why I said NBC! Their previous productions didn’t come close.


25 posted on 02/01/2016 11:12:41 AM PST by sarasota
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To: catbertz

Over 20 acres of sets.


26 posted on 02/01/2016 11:13:52 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Mariner

It was either Grease or the Pro-Bowl.

I chose the Pro-Bowl.
The Pro-Bowl was awful.


27 posted on 02/01/2016 11:15:42 AM PST by kidd
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To: dfwgator

It was a very nice blend of the two.


28 posted on 02/01/2016 11:39:37 AM PST by Hessian (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: Mariner

It’s streamable now on the FOXNOW app!


29 posted on 02/01/2016 11:41:19 AM PST by Hessian (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: kidd
"The Pro-Bowl was awful."

Grease was an artistic jewel.

The very biggest Broadway production in history, I'm sure. And it was done well.

30 posted on 02/01/2016 11:47:49 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: sarasota

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)


31 posted on 02/01/2016 12:01:54 PM PST by BarbM
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To: Mariner

I’m not saying that the boys in that picture look gay, but if they were gay, I wouldn’t be surprised.


32 posted on 02/01/2016 12:22:10 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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" but if they were gay, I wouldn’t be surprised"

Dude, it's Broadway.

They have to butch up to play a homosexual.

33 posted on 02/01/2016 12:26:43 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Mariner

Grease Live replay


34 posted on 02/01/2016 12:34:37 PM PST by Bratch
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To: RipSawyer
scratch out one of the dancer and add in singer.

it was ok in my head. not my fingers.

spell check should have caught that.

35 posted on 02/01/2016 12:51:28 PM PST by garyb
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To: Fundamentally Fair

I see it now available Fox on demand


36 posted on 02/01/2016 1:56:13 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: SMGFan

Perfect!


37 posted on 02/01/2016 1:58:29 PM PST by Fundamentally Fair (Pictionary at the Rorschach's tonight!)
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To: SMGFan

Perfect!


38 posted on 02/01/2016 1:58:37 PM PST by Fundamentally Fair (Pictionary at the Rorschach's tonight!)
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