Dancing With the Stars and Excessive Potential returned to ABC on Tuesday, September 16, with Season 34 and Season 2, respectively. The longtime competitors present and buzzed-about new procedural aired at 8/7c and 10/9c, respectively. However how did the reveals do within the scores?
It was an enormous evening for DWTS, because the stay present drew in 5.53 million viewers and a 1.07 score within the adults 18-49 demographic. This introduced the present up 6% in whole viewers and 49% in scores from the Season 33 premiere. It’s additionally the present’s greatest premiere evening since Season 29 debuted in 2020.
Host Alfonso Ribeiro revealed in the course of the episode that the present had obtained greater than double the quantity of votes in comparison with 2024’s premiere. Per Selection, the Season 34 debut episode introduced in 21 million votes, which was up 163% in comparison with the 8 million obtained in Season 33’s premiere.
The Season 34 solid consists of Robert Irwin, Dylan Efron, Jennifer Affleck, Whitney Leavitt, Corey Feldman, Hilaria Baldwin, Baron Davis, Andy Richter, Lauren Jauregui, Scott Hoying, Jordan Chiles, Elaine Hendrix, Danielle Fishel, and Alix Earle.
Excessive Potential additionally had an incredible first evening, bringing in 4.34 million viewers and a .34 score within the adults 18-49 demographic. Though the latter was down from final season, the full viewers have been up greater than 20%, proving simply how common the Kaitlin Olson-led present grew to become over the course of its first season.
Streaming helped bump the numbers up much more. After simply sooner or later of streaming on Hulu, the Season 2 premiere was up 51% in whole viewers from the 2024 pilot episode’s first day.
DWTS and Excessive Potential’s premieres aired sooner or later earlier than ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel‘s speak present, Jimmy Kimmel Reside!, because of remarks the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk. The scores got here in earlier than the controversy.
Dancing With the Stars, Season 34, Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC and Disney+ (streaming subsequent day on Hulu)
Excessive Potential, Season 2, Tuesdays, 10/9c, ABC (streaming subsequent day on Hulu)