The Season 4 premiere of Abbott Elementary (2.17, +0.17) was the highest-rated reported premiere of the season so far for ABC in the A18-49 demo. The sitcom skews relatively young for broadcast standards and even younger overall; it narrowly out-rated High Potential’s series premiere in the demo (2.17 vs 2.12) with over 3.5 million less viewers. Abbott Elementary is also up sizably from its Season 3 finale (2.00) and had its highest demo rating since the post-Oscars airing early in that season.
9-1-1 (2.01) broke a 2 in the A18-49 demo for the first time this season with its third episode, up 0.06 from the Season 8 premiere earlier this fall. With 10.42 million viewers, it was the most-watched telecast of the Ryan Murphy drama since March.
ABC did not disclose MP+7 A18-49 ratings for the fourth and fifth episodes of High Potential, but did reveal both episodes notched over 10 million viewers. The fifth episode was the most-watched episode of a freshman ABC series in six years, with 10.49 million viewers.
In 3-day multi-platform viewing, the series premiere of High Potential (1.33) grew almost a full ratings point in the A18-49 demo from the linear premiere. Its third episode (1.56) increased 17% from this in the demo and gained over 1.4 million viewers, despite being slightly down in the demo in Live + Same Day ratings. ABC had previously revealed the series premiere of High Potential hit a 2.12 rating in MP+7, and rose to a 2.20 for its second episode.