TV Ratings: ‘Marshals’ journey to big No. 1 showing on CBS

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the first YellowstoneThe -verse series that premiered on the streaming network has maintained the franchise’s winning success record.

MarshalsA Yellowstone The spinoff focused on Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes), and attracted the largest premiere audience for a scripted show for the 2025-26 season — and several seasons before that. Excluding shows with football as a lead-in, Sunday’s first episode received the largest same-day audience (9.52 million viewers) for a scripted series premiere since. FBI It surpassed 10 million viewers in September 2018. (One caveat: Nielsen has changed its ratings collection methodology several times since 2018.)

It also puts in 9.52 million viewers Marshals Before most episodes of the original show. During the season 5B premiere Yellowstone The series garnered 16.4 million viewers on its first night in November 2024, a figure that includes simulcasts on eight cable networks, reruns on the Paramount Network and a special on CBS.

Marshals ABC rose Dancing with the stars The finale (9.43 million viewers) had the largest same-day audience for a series on the network (excluding live sports and news) so far this season. The previous record for a scripted show this season was 8.85 million for CBS. Tracker In early November.

Marshals Follows Kayce Dutton as he joins an elite team of US Rangers in Montana [spoiler alert] The (off-screen) death of his wife Monica (played by Kelsey Asbell in… Yellowstone). Showrunner Spencer Hodnut said Hollywood Reporter After the premiere on Sunday, he and Grimes came up with the idea after learning that Asbille would not be available for the spinoff. “It wasn’t like Luke and I were sitting there saying, ‘We should kill Monica,'” Hudnut said. “It was like, ‘If she’s not available for this, what’s the best way to transition out of that character in the least exploitative way?'”

In addition to Grimes, L Marshals The cast includes Logan Marshall-Green, Ariel Kebbell, Ash Santos and Tatanka Means as well as returning Yellowstone Actors Mo brings a lot, Brecken Merrill and Jill Birmingham.

Paramount Television Studios and 101 Studios produce Marshals. Hudnut executive produces with Yellowstone creators Taylor Sheridan, John Linson, David Glaser, Art Linson, Ron Burkle, David Hotkin, Bob Yari, Michael Friedman, Grimes and Greg Yaitans.

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