Grant Gustin Flash Movie Cameo Could Happen According To New Rumor
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With Spider-Man: No Way Home out in theaters now, the biggest superhero movie that online leakers and theorizers are focused on is The Flash. In a way, the two movies are similar as they both bring back actors as previous iterations of classic superhero characters. Well, a new rumor says that Grant Gustin could have a cameo in The Flash movie as Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen runs through the Arrowverse. Given the production schedule of The Flash TV series and how many alternate reality characters The Flash movie has to introduce, I suspect that if there is a cameo from Grant Gustin it will be a quick one. The rumor also suggests that other TV shows or DC franchises may appear as well, like Smallville. We strongly believe this rumor is true, though our sources are just our eyeballs and brains.
The biggest moment of the CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths event came from its cameos. Burt Ward of Batman ’66 fame, Robert Wuhl of Batman ’89 fame, and Tom Welling’s Clark Kent all showed up. Yet, the biggest moment came towards the end of the event when while trying to jumpstart reality, Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen ran into Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen. The two had a conversation before Miller vanished suddenly. Yet, not before Grant’s Barry gave him the idea of the name “The Flash.” It was a great moment proving that every Barry Allen is a delight, no matter the universe.
Still, what makes us think this is relevant to The Flash movie is that the Grant Gustin meets Ezra Miller cameo came from on high in DC Films and Warner Bros. They asked producer Marc Guggenheim to shoot that scene at the last minute, and they clearly had a reason.
Is the Rumor About a Grant Gustin Cameo in The Flash Movie from a Credible Source?
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When it comes to these rumors and their sources, one always has to be aware of who is claiming what. Some people and sites just make things up using educated guesses. Other times they report what people tell them, but those sources are just making things up. This one, however, feels very credible. It comes from Mike Sutton of Geekosity.com, who posted one of the earliest versions of that “The Flash movie erases the DCEU” rumor that’s popping up again. However, as Sutton keeps track of which of his rumors end up confirmed, even he notes the merger of Warner Bros. and Discovery Media affects these plans in ways no leaker or insider could know. Discovery Media will likely be less keen to eradicate a very popular iteration of DC Films continuity.
Still, whether Sutton’s source is credible or not, that Grant Gustin would cameo in The Flash movie is not a huge jump to a conclusion. However, as Sutton says that Miller will see Gustin’s Flash “again,” I suspect it may not be something new nor will the cameo be as substantive as the previous Spideys in No Way Home. I suspect that we might see what we saw in Crisis On Infinite Earths, but just from the perspective of Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen. Of course, it’s also possible that he meets a different version of the Grant Gustin Barry, too. Really, anything is possible. Still, I suspect that neither Warner Bros. nor Andy Muschietti would make watching Hour 4 of the CW’s 2019 crossover event a prerequisite for their movie.
Is This DC’s Take on the Multiverse: Into the Flash-Verse: No Way Home?
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Personally, I think that Grant Gustin could definitely carry a larger cameo in The Flash movie. However, it took us nine movies to get our Spider-Verse moment in live-action, I can see them wanting to save some of that for future Flash movies. Though, it’d be nice to see Grant Gustin, John Wesley Shipp, and Ezra Miller all in the same scene. Yes, it’s pure fan service, but it also is a way to honor the actors, especially Shipp, who took risks on superhero projects long before they dominated pop culture. Still, the plot of this movie feels like it has enough heavy lifting to do, especially since it’s introducing a new Supergirl and re-introducing Michael Keaton as Batman. (And Keaton is returning for Batgirl!)
In the past, Warner Bros. and DC Films have shown they don’t necessarily have the patience that Marvel Studios has when it comes to building up an event. When they were released, the Zack Snyder movies were initially panned for trying to rush the shared universe connections that the MCU built over multiple years and multiple movies. Yet, for the back quarter of the 20th century, DC comic book movies were the only superhero game in town. How Marvel ended up lapping DC at the box office is a story worthy of season 2 of the Slugfest documentary.
As Warner Bros. changes parent companies for a second time this decade, we can hope that Discovery Media doesn’t fear the mingling of TV and feature film properties like the old executives. So, while Grant Gustin will almost certainly cameo in The Flash movie, it’s possible that the two Barry Allen actors will unite on-screen multiple times in the future.
The Flash movie debuts in theaters November 4, 2022.
What do you think? Did you expect Grant Gustin to cameo in The Flash movie? Do you think it will be a quick “run through,” or do you think he might play a sizeable role? Share your thoughts, theories, and hopes for the DC Multiverse in the comments below.
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UPI Almanac for Friday, Jan. 14, 2022
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On January 14, 1969, a series of explosions aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise off Hawaii killed 27 men. File Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy
Today is Friday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2022 with 351 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mars and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Advertisement
Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. They include Roman general Mark Antony in 83 B.C.; American turncoat Gen. Benedict Arnold in 1741; painter Berthe Morisot in 1841; Thornton Waldo Burgess, author of Peter Rabbit, in 1874; philosopher/medical missionary/Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer in 1875; novelist John Dos Passos in 1896; photographer/designer Sir Cecil Beaton in 1904; 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney in 1919; drag racing driver Don “Big Daddy” Garlits in 1932 (age 90); singer Jack Jones in 1938 (age 84); civil rights activist Julian Bond in 1940; actor Faye Dunaway in 1941 (age 81); astronaut Shannon Lucid in 1943 (age 79); actor Holland Taylor in 1943 (age 79); evangelist/actor/singer Marjoe Gortner in 1944 (age 78); journalist Nina Totenberg in 1944 (age 78); musician T. Bone Burnett in 1948 (age 74); actor Carl Weathers in 1948 (age 74); filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan in 1949 (age 73); Washington Post columnist Maureen Dowd in 1952 (age 70); film director Steven Soderbergh in 1963 (age 59); television news anchor Shepard Smith in 1964 (age 58); actor Emily Watson in 1967 (age 55), rapper/actor LL Cool J, born James Todd Smith, in 1968 (age 54); actor Jason Bateman in 1969 (age 53); rock musician Dave Grohl in 1969 (age 53); actor Kevin Durand in 1974 (age 48); rock singer Caleb Followill in 1982 (age 40); actor Emma Greenwell in 1989 (age 33); actor Grant Gustin in 1990 (age 32).
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On this date in history:
In 1794, Dr. Jesse Bennett of Edom, Va., performed the first successful Caesarean section.
In 1907, an earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, killed more than 1,000 people.
In 1935, a semi-official check of voters in the Saar plebiscite indicated that nearly 80 percent were in favor of reunification with Germany. A victory for Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
In 1943, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opened a 10-day World War II strategy conference in Casablanca, Morocco.
In 1952, NBC’s Today premiered. It was the program that started the morning news show format as it is now known.
In 1953, Josip Broz Tito was chosen president of Yugoslavia. He would serve until May 1980.
In 1954, Marilyn Monroe married baseball star Joe DiMaggio. The two would divorce less than a year later.
In 1963, George Wallace was inaugurated as the governor of Alabama, promising his followers, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
In 1969, a series of explosions aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise off Hawaii killed 27 men.
In 1993, David Letterman accepted a multimillion-dollar deal to move his late-night talk show to CBS in August after his NBC contract expired.
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In 2005, a U.S. Army reservist, Spc. Charles Graner, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for abusing detainees at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Graner, who said he didn’t regret his actions, was released from prison after 6 1/2 years.
In 2007, Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and the judge who approved the 1982 killing of 148 Shiite men and boys were executed by hanging in Baghdad. Saddam was hanged two weeks earlier.
In 2011, anti-government protesters forced the ouster of Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
In 2020, Ken Jennings won the Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time competition, taking home a $1 million cash prize. He beat out other record-setting Jeopardy! contestants James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter.
In 2021, former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder pleaded not guilty to two charges related to the Flint water contamination crisis.
A thought for the day: “Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle around every individual and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.” – Scottish writer Jane Welsh Carlyle
January 14: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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ON THIS DAY IN 1919, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “A special committee of the American Public Health Association, having made a careful investigation and study of the epidemic of so-called influenza, has made a report to the association. Referring to the nature of the epidemic, the report says, among other things: ‘There is no known laboratory method by which an attack of influenza can be differentiated from an ordinary cold or bronchitis or other inflammations of the mucous membranes of the nose, pharynx or throat. There is no known laboratory method by which it can be determined when a person who has suffered from influenza ceases to be capable of transmitting the disease to others.’ In other words, it is purely a matter of the attending physician’s judgment whether the illness shall be dubbed ‘influenza’ or not. And it is purely a matter of the attending physician’s judgment whether the individual who has recovered from the ‘flu’ may or may not be safely permitted to mingle with susceptible persons.”
ON THIS DAY IN 1923, Eagle columnist Frederick Boyd Stevenson wrote, “The kings and the presidents and the premiers and the politicians have fallen flat. There is no question as to that. The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. That is three years and seven months ago. The world financially, physically and morally is in a worse state today than it was on the day that war was formally declared at an end. The kings and the presidents and the premiers and the politicians have been trying to run the world. To use perfectly good English, they have balled up the whole shooting match. And, as a result of this mismanagement, what confronts the whole of the world today? No man can give the answer. Central Europe, with the exception of England, is on the verge of financial, commercial and industrial collapse. If the final collapse comes, even England and America cannot escape the consequences. For three and a half years the present units of world power have striven in vain to adjust the affairs of the world. Instead of moving the world away from war, they have brought it to the very edge of a war — possibly more terrible than the last. Why not have a new world management? Why not put the business affairs of the world in the hands of businessmen, and run the world on a business basis? Running the nations on a business basis may sound like an anomaly; and yet the whole world has advanced solely on the basis of business.”
DAILY TOP BROOKLYN NEWS News for those who live, work and play in Brooklyn and beyond Leave this field empty if you’re human:
ON THIS DAY IN 1923, the Eagle reported, “When completed, Brooklyn’s Municipal building will stand 12 stories high in the center and 10 stories high in the east and west wings. It will occupy a site 270×170 feet on Court St. between Joralemon and Livingston Sts., and ground will be broken in early spring. The structure will cost in the neighborhood of $6,000,000 and all of the city, boro and county bureaus and departments that now have offices here will be housed in the building, with one floor to spare. The old plans provided for a hip and valley roof, but this feature has been eliminated and three additional floors substituted. It will be a modern type of office building, with 400,000 feet of floor space. It is expected that the structure will take care of the needs of the boro for the next 25 years.”
ON THIS DAY IN 1934, the Eagle reported, “A ‘lunch room war’ raged yesterday between the students and principal of New Utrecht High School, 79th St. and 16th Ave., with not much prospect for an armistice in sight. The first skirmish resulted in a victory for the principal, Dr. Harry A. Potter, and one casualty for the students. The casualty is Morris Oshatz, 17, who suffered a suspension at the hands of the principal. He will have a hearing, however, in Dr. Potter’s office Tuesday morning, when the suspension may — or may not — be lifted. … Charges were made by the students that the food prices in the school lunch room were too high but that they were compelled to patronize it or bring their own lunches; that they didn’t want to do either; that their protests had been ignored, and that they had been ‘tyrannically’ dealt with.”
NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include actress and singer Carole Cook, who was born in 1924; blues and soul singer Clarence Carter, who was born in 1936; Oscar-winning actress Faye Dunaway, who was born in 1941; astronaut Shannon Lucid, who was born in 1943; “The Practice” star Holland Taylor, who was born in 1943; musician T Bone Burnett, who was born in 1948; “Rocky” star Carl Weathers, who was born in 1948; director and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, who was born in 1949; Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, who was born in 1963; “Angela’s Ashes” star Emily Watson, who was born in 1967; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dave Grohl (Nirvana), who was born in 1969; rapper and actor LL Cool J, who was born in 1970; former N.Y. Jets tight end Kyle Brady, who was born in 1972; former N.Y. Mets pitcher Mike Pelfrey, who was born in 1984; and “The Flash” star Grant Gustin, who was born in 1990.
IT’S OFFICIAL: On this day in 1784, Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the American Revolution, established the U.S. as a sovereign power and fulfilled the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776.
MORNING IN AMERICA: “Today” premiered on NBC on this day in 1952. Captained by Dave Garroway, the show was segmented with bits and pieces of news, sports, weather, interviews and other features that were repeated so that viewers did not have to stop their morning routine to watch. The segments were brief and to the point. Sylvester Weaver devised this concept to capitalize on television’s unusual qualities. It is the fifth longest-running TV series in U.S. history.
Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.
Quotable:
“I don’t live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you’re bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere.”
— rapper and actor LL Cool J, who was born on this day in 1970
Batwoman’s Nick Creegan speaks out on being DC’s first Black Joker
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In November last year, Batwoman welcomed one of DC’s most iconic villains into the fold, as it revealed that Marquis Jet, the half-brother of titular hero Ryan Wilder, is the Joker.
Now, actor Nick Creegan, who plays Marquis, has spoken out on what it means to bring the comic book franchise’s first Black Clown Prince of Crime to life, admitting that it’s “still surreal” to him all these months on.
“It’s crazy. It’s wild, actually. Yeah, I’ve done a lot of processing the past few weeks, months, you know?” he said in a new interview with The Wrap. “You know, the reception of the new Joker, being the first person of colour to play this role – the messages and the love I’ve been getting has just been overwhelming. It’s been a fun ride.”
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Related: The Flash’s Grant Gustin says Batwoman team-up isn’t “what everybody would expect”
Talking about how he was influenced by those who have played Batman’s arch-nemesis before him, Creegan revealed that he took “edgy” fashion tips from Jared Leto’s Suicide Squad iteration, and the “maniacal laughter” from Heath Ledger’s Dark Knight take. He also said that he made sure to include a little “craze in the eyes” a la Joaquin Phoenix.
“The laugh is actually my own laugh,” Creegan giggled. “People are like, ‘Oh this Joker laugh is so good!’ I’m like, ‘Don’t think I’m actually crazy, but this is how I laugh whenever something’s really funny.’
“So I have a really weird, interesting – I call it my auteur laugh. That’s mine. But yeah, there are bits and pieces from other Jokers. It’s very much an over-exaggerated version of what Nick would be like in this situation.”
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Related: Batwoman’s Ruby Rose speaks out against show bosses over mistreatment and working conditions
Teasing the “total fking chaos” that’s to come from Marquis and Nicole Kang’s newly naughty Poison Mary, Creegan added: “There’s a moment where the Joker and Poison Ivy meet and the aftermath of that meeting is fking mind-blowing.
“There’s a lot of evil, evil stuff that happens. And I can guarantee, after Marquis and Mary meet, that fans of the Bat Team are going to be very stressed out. Extremely stressed out.”
Batwoman airs on The CW in the US and E4 in the UK.
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Does Sophia Bush’s Good Sam Need A New Time Slot? Plus More 2022 TV Ratings Questions
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Television is now a couple of weeks into 2022, with some of the biggest shows on the broadcast networks already getting back into swing after paying off on midseason finale twists . By now, fans have had the chance to both tune in to their returning favorites as well as check out the shows like Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star that are launching new seasons, and series like CBS’ Good Sam that are premiering for the first time. So, we have a couple of weeks of ratings data by this point to look at and raise some questions about 2022 moving forward.
For these questions for the week of January 9, let’s look at the Live+Same day numbers in the 18-49 age demographic, which are the totals for ratings and audience size one day after the live broadcast. Even though delayed data after three and seven days is quite valuable, the Live+Same give away just how much of a priority viewers are giving to particular shows over others. And on that note, let’s start with a show that isn’t quite crushing its competition!
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Does Good Sam Need A New Time Slot On CBS?
CBS got into the medical drama game in 2022 with the premiere of Good Sam, starring Chicago P.D. veteran Sophia Bush as the titular Sam. Although CBS gave the new show a big push before its premiere and medical dramas reliably deliver solid numbers in primetime, it’s not holding up compared to the competition in the 10 p.m. ET time slot on Wednesdays, which includes Bush’s former NBC show. ABC, CBS, and NBC all aired new episodes on January 12, and these were the Live+Same totals (via SpoilerTV ):
Chicago P.D./NBC: 0.7 rating and 5.8 million viewers
The Chase/ABC: 0.3 rating and 2.15 million viewers
Good Sam/CBS: 0.2 and 2.4 million viewers
In the previous week, Good Sam beat The Chase in both ratings and viewership, but came in second this week in the ratings, and the ABC show is closing the gap in audience size. Good Sam is unlikely to topple Chicago P.D. short of a P.D. rerun , and it’s possible that airing up against Sophia Bush’s old show isn’t ideal for the medical drama. CSI: Vegas, which is a crime drama that held CBS’ 10 p.m. time slot against P.D. in the fall, got off to a stronger start in October with its 4.12 million and 0.46 rating.
Good Sam had a less impressive launch on January 5 with an audience of 2.7 million and 0.3 rating, and didn’t pick up Live+Same steam in its second week, indicating that it won’t be serious competition for P.D. on NBC and may remain neck and neck with The Chase, which is a game show. I can’t help but wonder if Good Sam simply doesn’t pair well The Amazing Race, which airs on CBS at 9 p.m. ET. It could theoretically do better paired with a drama, and perhaps airing earlier than 10 p.m.
As somebody who was surprised at the start of the 2021-2022 TV season to see CBS lead into NCIS’ new time slot with a pair of comedies, I could see a switch of Good Sam to Mondays at 8 p.m. ahead of NCIS, with The Neighborhood and Bob Hearts Abishola moved to Wednesdays. Both comedies are already strong performers and viewers could potentially follow the shows to Wednesdays, while Good Sam might stand a better shot on a night of dramas in an earlier slot. Medical dramas are hits on other networks, so there may be a way for CBS to pull it off as well.
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Does The CW Really Need More Superhero Shows?
News broke this week that The CW is developing another superhero TV show , this time starring Arrow alum David Ramsey as John Diggle. As a former Arrow loyalist , I was happy to see that one of the heroes who help establish the entire Arrowverse could get his own show; upon looking at the ratings for The CW’s four superhero series that aired this week, however, I find myself doubting that the network really needs more superhero shows. Sorry, Digg!
The first superhero series to hit the network this week was Superman & Lois with its Season 2 premiere on Tuesday at 8 p.m., which (according to SpoilerTV ) scored a rating of 0.23 and audience of slightly over 1 million. Those are actually pretty solid numbers for The CW, but also likely to drop off in non-premiere episodes. New series Naomi followed at 9 p.m., with a 0.14 rating and audience of 0.8 million, which is more on par with what solid CW shows deliver regularly. But again, that was a premiere, and numbers will likely drop next week.
And that brings us to the other two CW superhero shows of the week, which aired on Wednesday night. Legends of Tomorrow’s Season 7 midseason premiere hit a rating of 0.11 and audience of 0.56 million at 8 p.m., with Batwoman’s return at 9 p.m. faring worse (albeit not by much) with 0.08 rating and audience of 0.52 million.
Admittedly, these totals do leave off The Flash, which is currently the Arrowverse’s longest-running show with a Season 8 that averages a SpoilerTV rating of 0.17 and audience of 0.72 million. The Grant Gustin series won’t be back until March, but unless it gets a big boost, it won’t have the totals to give much of a ratings boost to the Arrowverse.
In the grand scheme of things, the Arrowverse’s current slate just isn’t hitting the same kinds of numbers that it did in its heyday, and I’m not convinced that the solution is adding another show. Admittedly, Superman & Lois is one of the newest shows and also consistently among The CW’s higher-rated series, but can we expect less of a show starring the Man of Steel that doesn’t require an immense knowledge of the other shows?
I’m also not so sure that The Flash has many more seasons left, and the end of Flash after Supergirl and Arrow would mark the end of arguably the Arrowverse’s most prosperous era. A new show anchored by a series regular from the very first season of the Arrowverse with John Diggle has a shot, but I’m just not sure that The CW needs more superheroes.
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Would it really be a ratings discussion without bringing up television’s biggest franchises? As of the beginning of 2022, we have NCIS (three shows), FBI (three shows), One Chicago (three shows) Law & Order ( soon-to-be three shows ), and Grey’s Anatomy/Station 19 (two shows). I’m leaving out The CW’s Arrowverse as a franchise because… well, see above. Grey’s and Station 19 aren’t back yet in the new year, but the other numbers paint a picture of franchise supremacy.
The NCIS franchise is comprised of NCIS: LA, which won its most recent Sunday night in both ratings and viewership with 0.5 rating and 5.3 million viewers; NCIS, which had the largest audience size and some of the highest ratings in its most recent Monday night with 0.47 and 6.9 million; and NCIS: Hawai’i, following NCIS on Mondays to win the 10 p.m. time slot with 0.38 and 4.9 million.
All three FBI shows were new on Tuesday, January 11, and two of the three won their time slots. FBI started the night on CBS with 0.7 rating and 8.4 million viewers to easily beat the competition; FBI: International was the second-highest rated drama at 9 p.m., with its 0.5 rating falling beyond This Is Us on NBC, but International easily won in audience size with 6.2 million; and FBI: Most Wanted, taking CBS back to the top at 10 p.m. with 0.5 rating and 5.56 million, topping NBC’s New Amsterdam and ABC’s Queens.
And this brings us to NBC’s One Chicago on Wednesday nights, which is by far my favorite franchise block of primetime when it comes to ratings consistency. On January 12, Chicago Med dominated at 8 p.m. with 0.8 and 7.3 million; Chicago Fire crushed its competition at 9 p.m. with 0.8 and 7.4 million; and Chicago P.D. finished the night strong with 0.7 and 5.8 million.
And what of the two Law & Order shows on Thursday nights in the final weeks before the original returns? Law & Order: SVU got the night of January 13 off to a dark start even by SVU standards at 9 p.m., but was the top drama of the night with 0.6 rating and 4.1 million; Law & Order: Organized Crime followed at 10 p.m. to win its own slot with 0.5 and 3.1 million.
So, what does all of this mean? While NCIS is proof that a show that dominates in audience size won’t necessarily come out on top in the Live+Same ratings, and there are exceptions to the rule of franchises winning, shows with spinoffs (or that are spinoffs) tend to do very well for their networks.
The Law & Orders may be shaken up when Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 return to ABC in February, but the revival of the original Law & Order could bolster the NBC series’ numbers. And what’s not to admire about One Chicago’s consistency? Franchises tend to deliver some of the most reliable numbers across primetime, and that could mean more and more spinoffs.
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NBC has had a hit in This Is Us from the very beginning, but the end is nigh with the the current sixth and final season. With current averages of 0.9 rating and 5.24 million viewers, it’s probably safe to say that it will continue dominating Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. until the end. But what does network TV have that could become the next This Is Us-sized hit?
Back when A Million Little Things premiered, it struck me as ABC’s answer to This Is Us, but never gained the same kind of ratings foothold. Currently in its fourth season, I can’t see A Million Little Things becoming the next This Is Us. I’m also not sure that I can see any current TV show filling that void.
The franchises that are slowly taking over primetime don’t fit into the same genre as This Is Us with its focus on character and family dynamics, and I’m not sure that any of the standalones can pick up enough steam. So, I think it’s time to start keeping an eye on news for new pilots and shows in development that could be the next biggest hit on television.
NBC is reportedly working on a revival of Quantum Leap , which would be a high-profile premiere, although even farther from the This Is Us genre than the likes of NCIS, FBI, and the Law & Orders. It’s worth also keeping an eye on the ratings in Live+Same day to show just how much fans continue to prioritize watching This Is Us.