ROSEANNE – “Twenty Years to Life” – Roseanne and Dan adjust to living under the same roof with Darlene and her two children, Harris and Mark, when Darlene loses her job. Meanwhile, Becky announces she is going to be a surrogate to make extra money; and Roseanne and Jackie are at odds with one another, on the season premiere and first episode of the revival of “Roseanne,” TUESDAY, MARCH 27 (8:00-8:30 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network. (ABC/Adam Rose) ROSEANNE BARR, JOHN GOODMANCourtesy of ABC
The premiere numbers for ABC‘s Roseanne revival were even bigger than the laughs it delivered.
‘Ratings for “Roseanne” Revival Premiere on ABC
The classic comedy returned on Tuesday to 18.2 million total viewers and a 5.2 demo rating (across its double-episode run, per finals), easily marking this TV season’s biggest launch — besting even Young Sheldon‘s premiere, which did 17.2 mil/3.8 leading out of Big Bang Theory.
Suffice to say, Will & Grace‘s own revival launch (10.2 mil/3.) trails far behind, as do the series premieres of The Good Doctor (11.2 mil/2.2) and an NFL-boosted The Orville (8.6 mil/2.7).
ABC notes that Roseanne returned to an audience larger than its final 12 telecasts of the original run’s 1996-97 season, while that 5.1 represents a 3-1/2 year high for any comedy on any network.
Leading out of all that, black-ish (8.7 mil/2.6) scored its biggest audience since its series premiere and best demo number since November 2014, while Splitting Up Together debuted to 7.2 mil/2.1. For the People (3.6 mil/0.9) surged 33 and 50 percent.
