Tim Allen’s new ABC sitcom “Shifting Gears” is beefing up its ratings engine. According to ABC, the series is the most-watched ABC series premiere on streaming to date, through its first seven days of viewing on both Hulu and the Hulu portion of Disney+.
The Jan. 8 premiere of “Shifting Gears” has now averaged nearly 17 million views across multiple platforms, including linear ABC (and subsequent repeats), Timeshift, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+, and other digital platforms, according to Alphabet net. The viewing is recorded. This number of 16.95 million viewers is a 173% increase from the 6.2 million viewers of the show’s first live + same-day broadcast.
Excluding linear repeats, the show averaged 12.45 million multi-platform seven-day viewers, up 101% from L+SD’s 6.2 million viewers, and a 2.94 rating among adults 18-49. , an increase of 339% from the age of 18 in L+SD. -49 average 0.67.
According to ABC, this is the network’s most-watched debut since “The Conners,” which aired on October 16, 2018. In Shifting Gears, Allen stars as Matt, “the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop.” Official logline. “The real restoration begins when Matt’s estranged daughter (Kat Dennings) and her children move into his home.” Seann William Scott, Darryl “Chill” Mitchell, Maxwell Simkins and Barrett Margolis also appear.
Meanwhile, the crossover between “Abbott Elementary” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” which also aired on Jan. 8, set a series high for “Abbott” in streaming via Hulu on Hulu and Disney+. announced the bureau.
So far, the show has had a seven-day total of 8.05 million viewers across multiple platforms and a 2.57 rating among adults 18-49. The only episode that topped it by this measure was an episode of the post-Oscar show last March.
“Abbott”/”Sunny” episodes averaged 4.9 million viewers in linear L+7 (up 28% from 3.82 million in L+SD) and a 0.9 rating in adults 18-49 (L+ SD of 0.68 to 32%). .
