Ten’s new comedy The New Normal rates 552,000
Ten’s new US comedy The New Normal saw a rise for the network last night on the previous Sunday but the prime time show is still struggling.
The sitcom, which aired at 8pm, rated just 552,000 and 19th in total viewers for the night, according to preliminary ratings from OzTam.
It’s an improvement on last week’s figure of 488,000, however last week it placed higher, in 16th position for total viewers.
The show was behind Nine’s 60 Minutes on 1.237m at 7.30pm, Seven’s Air Ways 1.066m and ABC1’s The Making of the Kingdom of Plants rating 972,000 which both went out at 8pm.
Not surprised – the promos were terrible
It did 488 last week so is up about 15%
Positive story.
A blatant ripoff of of Modern Family, without the likeable characters. Deserves to die.
The biggest disappointment would be ‘Homeland’. Won a slew of Emmy awards and was ‘fast-tracked’ here, but still couldn’t lift in the ratings stake. Network Ten wouldn’t be very happy.
Not sure New Normal is anything like Modern Family aside the gay characters.
Does that mean any show with a gay character or two is a Modern Family rip off?
Not saying it’s good or bad but it’s really nothing like MF.
@ Shamma… It’s bad…. The audience might be up but so was every bodies audience last night. That’s why they slipped from 16th to 19th. Stop being positive start being realistic. It’s bad.
not surprised at the poor début…..reckon it will do worse next week . Acting was terrible…true….Homeland to me was the far bigger disappointment. how much extra would it have cost Ten to fast track it?
ended up doing 520 on consolidated, I think it will continue to improve, MF was up last night as well
The New Normal is a great show, and it gets better as it goes on, I really hope Ch10 stick it out. Not like they have anything to replace it with that will rate any better…
I agree with Justin… I love The New Normal and all my gay friends are enjoying it as well. My partner and I lay together and get a great laugh and sometimes a tear watching it…. I also love Modern Family and have seen all the seasons… I wouldn’t compare MF to NN… They are completely different shows…