Here's What I Said Here On DU The Day Roseanne's Ratings Came In On The 1st Show.....

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We should wait for subsequent episodes to see if it holds its audience. My guess is that it will trail off because of Roseanne's politics and mouth. She's already put her foot in it with her Nazi comment of David Hogg. Trump didn't help her ratings for taking credit for the ratings of that show either.

It was only a matter of time that she'd shoot herself in the foot.

Good Riddance!!!!!

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1. you called it.

100%

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2. It certainly wasn't ratings that did it

If you only look at the live ratings you'll see it went from 18 million to just over 10 million per episode. But networks look at live+7 overall because of DVRs and it was adding an additional 5 million over the week. Which is how a lot of people watch their shows. Check out the numbers for the most recent week here:

https://www.spoilertv.com/2017/09/live7-dvr-ratings-201718-season.html

Live and Same Day is what gets reported because it's the quick overnight numbers. But the bigger picture is L+7.

Hell, the 4/16 episode was pulling in 13.2 million live (something few shows do and often just sports/live events) and it added another 6 million in L+7 to give it the top ranking of the week in both columns.

ABC played with fire, took the risk, got burned hard. But people really need to put the "ratings were terrible" piece to rest because it wasn't.