EXCLUSIVE: Dancing with the Stars: The Subsequent Professional is proving to be a fierce new addition to the summer season tv lineup.
The brand new sequence, which chronicles the seek for the franchise’s subsequent skilled ballroom dancer forward of Dancing with the Stars Season 35, debuted to a complete viewers of 5.33M after three days of viewing throughout ABC, Disney+, Hulu and digital platforms, in accordance with Nielsen Large Knowledge + Panel. The episode additionally scored a 0.86 ranking amongst adults 18-49.
For context, the premiere viewers for Season 34 of Dancing with the Stars final fall was 5.5M stay + same-day viewers, and the sequence approached 10M L+SD viewers by the finale. It was the highest-rated and most-watched DWTS finale in 9 years, due to the franchise’s gorgeous resurgence over the past two years.
The launch of The Subsequent Professional is the primary main growth of the DWTS because it premiered in 2005. Over time, the sequence has gone by means of dozens of professional dancers, lots of whom returned for final season’s twentieth anniversary celebration. The early success of The Subsequent Professional bodes fairly effectively for the upcoming season of the flagship sequence, indicating that its newest cultural resonance is poised to proceed.
Per Nielsen, The Subsequent Professional, hosted by DWTS Season 34 champ Robert Irwin, is ABC’s strongest summer season sequence debut throughout all genres since July 2020. On linear alone, the episode was the highest program of the evening each in whole viewers with 4.42M and within the 18-49 demo with a 0.47 ranking.
Presently, it stands because the finest various sequence premiere this tv season throughout broadcast and cable excluding these fortunate sufficient to get NFL lead-ins.
Dancing with the Stars: The Subsequent Professional is produced by BBC Studios. The sequence airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on ABC and streaming subsequent day on Disney+ and Hulu. Subsequent week, the remaining dancers face one of many hardest Dancing with the Stars challenges: a bunch efficiency. Mentored by Britt Stewart, they need to grasp a high-intensity routine in simply hours, placing teamwork, timing and resilience to the check.