OK Ratings Start For Fundamental steps The Chew

The Kids fans probably won’t be too happy relevant for this, but ABC Daytime’s new lifestyle program The Chew, which transformed the canceled ABC cleaning cleaning soap, launched to solid amounts yesterday. The foods-designed series came 2.5 million million audiences due to its premiere and 590,000 women 18-49. That was more than a year ago’s series premiere of CBS’ The Talk (2.2 million audiences, 568,000 women 18-49), which too transformed a extended-running cleaning cleaning soap. (The Chew did a lot better than The Talk debut inside the other women demos too). In addition, The Chew matched up up AMC‘s latest available weekly audience (for September 12-16) and beat the departing cleaning cleaning soap in women 18-49 (590,000 versus. 532,000). It exceeded AMC‘s 2010-11 season earnings in general audiences (2.5 million versus. 2.4 million) and girls 18-49 (590,000/.9 rating versus. 541,000/.8 rating). At a small part of the cost of the daytime drama, once the Chew doesn’t drop considerably, it'll improve ABC’s primary point here substantially. Ironically, the quantity of fascination with The Chew may have surpassed ABC’s own anticipation — I hear the show’s website crashed yesterday because it couldn’t handle the incoming traffic. Or it absolutely was die-hard AMC fans sabotaging their show’s alternative …