Ratings: Arrowverse Crossover Opener Lifts Supergirl, Arrow to 1-Year Highs
Sometimes more is more, The CW‘s Arrowverse crossover event proved, as it does each year, with its “super”-sized ratings.
Kicking off Night 1, Monday’s opening hour drew 2.65 million total viewers and a 0.9 rating, surging 40 and 80 percent from Supergirl‘s previous episode to mark that show’s biggest audience since Jan. 23 and its best demo number since last November’s crossover launch (3.5 mil/1.1).
Part 2 aka the ostensible “Arrow episode” followed with 2.54 mil and a 0.9, nearly doubling that show’s most recent Thursday outing to mark its best numbers since last November’s crossover installment/Episode 100 (3.6 mil/1.3). Last year’s “Heroes v Aliens” crossover averaged 3.7 mil with a 1.3.
All told, The CW enjoyed its most-watched Monday since Jan. 12, 2009 and its highest-rated one in more than six years (since April 25, 2011).
Elsewhere….
ABC | Pending adjustment due to NFL preemption in Houston, the CMA Country Christmas special (8.2 mil/1.2) rose 20 percent from last year to mark its best numbers since 2014. The Good Doctor (9.5 mil/1.8) dipped to its smallest audience yet while steady in the demo.
NBC | The Voice (9.8 mil/2.0) rose from last Monday’s season lows, while the Pentatonix holiday special (5.8 mil/1.2) slipped 23 and 14 percent versus last year.
CBS | Man With a Plan (5.7 mil/1.1) and 9JKL (4.6 mil/0.9) each ticked up, with the latter hitting 4-week highs. Kevin Can Wait (6.3 mil/1.2), Superior Donuts (5.1 mil/1.0) and Scorpion (5.4 mil/0.9) all held steady in the demo, with the latter drawing its best audience since the season opener.
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And next week I go back to not watching Supergirl, sorry, was only there for the crossover.
And that reply is why cross overs are just a stunt because most don’t follow the other shows. All be way down next week or whenever they air next. CBS still not doing great but ok and The Good Doctor still strong but dropping a bit
Crossovers are stunts, but they are extremely satisfying for those who regularly watch all of the shows involved. Since I follow all of the Arrowverse shows, the crossovers are must-see events, because they bring together characters who rarely or never interact. Since I only watch one #OneChicago show, the Chicago crossovers are meaningless to me. I don’t even watch the entire thing, just the one episode of the one Chicago show I usually watch.
I watch all of them regularly except for SG. I loved s1 but it just got bad from there IMO. Last season I quit about half way through.
Same here.
Yet it’s fascinating that the audience actually went down from Supergirl to Arrow, which would seem to indicate 100,000 people were only interested in watching Supergirl, and tuned out rather than continue with the crossover. I would have expected the opposite.
or 100,000 gave the crossover a shot watched an hour and decided they didn’t want to watch the rest. It can have nothing to do with Supergirl vs Arrow.
No surprise there in terms of viewers Arrow is the least watched show out of the four. Its been like that the last 2 years. And Supergirl is second to the Flash.
or that after Supergirl aired some turned instead to Monday night football not because there was an issue with the crossover but because they can dvr Arrow.
Liberal garbage
best crossover ever!
move arrow back wednesday or monday after supergirl
Glad Supergirl and Arrow got good ratings. Both crossover episodes was really good last night. I can’t wait to watch the last 2 parts of crossover tonight!
Very enjoyable crossover episodes last night – looking forward to the final 2 tonight. Geoff Johns should consider putting Berlanti in charge of the movie side of DC….considering the smaller budget they did a better job than their big brothers on the movies lately.
I agree with you.
Considering Berlanti was in charge of the Green Lantern movie…I’m pretty sure they’re in no rush to have him touch the movies again.
Berlanti had almost no involvement in the Green Lantern movie that was shown in theaters.
WB basically threw his script in the trash can but left his name attached to the movie to
sucker people in that had read his excellent Green Lantern comic books thinking the movie
would be based on his Green Lantern.
Pentatonix are a fail. They appreared on closing credits — last 2 minutes — of KC Undercover a couple seasons ago, & that’s what I think of when someone mentions them. Like when The Scissor Sisters appeared on NBC’s Passions AFTER it was announced the soap was cancelled. Ah, the dog days of post-November sweeps.
Mediocre comfort food Kevin Can Wait actually has ratings ever-pretentious (!) Blackish should be jealous of.
Super girl has gotten to the point where all they show are cheesy relationship segments, not enough action.But I thoroughly enjoyed the two cross and shows last night.looking forward to tonight’s enstallments .Hope they keep going at the same pace. Almost as fun as the JL movie.
A few of us cw fans don’t even watch on tv. We are tablet junkies. I was all of my cw faves on terrarium tv app
your main way of viewing is a tablet? Don’t you find it small?
Haha, that’s what I was thinking. I have a 64″ flat screen. I could never watch TV on a tablet, it would drive me nuts :-)
The only time I watch something on a tablet is one a plane. And never something with action scenes. I guess we part of an “older” generation lol
The only time I watch something on a tablet is one a plane. And never something with action scenes. I guess we part of an “older” generation lol
I loved the first half of the crossover last night, it had so much action, and a well balanced story IMO. Looking forward to the second half tonight. ;)
I tuned in. But as I don’t follow the Arrowverse, a lot of the characters were beyond me. Though the Arrowverse Wiki was a big help.
The first part of the crossover had Barry and Iris’s wedding which suggested that it would draw more people from those who only watch The Flash to it which is another reason why the show ratings dropped. Too bad for those who skipped part 2. It is clearly a movie for which they took real effort to make it seamless so far. And since the wedding was interrupted, we will either see it again in part 4 as the conclusion or saved for another week which should draw more eyeballs.
Interesting thought: Supergirl does not exist in Barry’s universe. Does that mean that she didn’t get to this earth or maybe she never left if Krypton did not explode.. Sort of hoping for the later and I hereby renounce all claims to the idea. Hopefully the writers might play with this concept.
Not sure if the crossover is a one shot since the Earth 10 characters are interesting and would like to see them defeated but not destroyed for use in another year.
And kudos for Tommy. A hidden treat which worked perfectly.
Of course but “Arrow’ still needs to end after S7. That’s a great run and BL can take the place of “Arrow.” I’m hoping it’s a hit
I watched the first part of “ crisis on earth x” and it was fine. Part two sucked. The marvel characters went to Doucheland and came back as massive tools. I couldn’t even watch part three as I’d rather have a root canal then bother with the rest of this story line.
This has been the best crossover since the first one with just Arrow and Flash. I’m glad the numbers are good.