The ratings for the “Roseanne” premiere last Tuesday have jumped from the previous number of 18.9 million viewers to a whooping 25.4 million, according to the Hollywood Reporter Monday.
The ’90s reboot broke a record for Nielsen’s live-plus-three day ratings growth with 25.4 million viewers and scored a 7.3 among adults ages 18-49 for the March 27 premiere. The live-plus-three day number measures the DVR playback between the initial night the show aired and the next few days after.
Executive producer/actress Roseanne Barr, actors John Goodman, Lecy Goranson and Sarah Chalke of the television show Roseanne speak onstage during the ABC Television/Disney portion of the 2018 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 8, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
The additional 6.6 million viewers who have since watched the program, made it the largest total viewer three-day DVR increase for a show on any network ever.
Those numbers don’t even include another 4.3 million people who tuned in on Sunday for the encore telecast.
Days after last week’s premiere, ABC announced that they had signed on the cast for a second season of “Roseanne.”
Just as promised, the premiere didn’t shy away from the political divide in families over the results of the 2016 election and portrayed President Donald Trump supporters in a more favorable light than other programs have in the past.
Trump even reached out to the star of the show, Roseanne Barr, and congratulated her on the huge ratings.
“Look at Roseanne. Look at her ratings,” Trump declared. “I got a call from Mark Burnett… He said, ‘Donald, I called just to say hello and to tell you, did you see Roseanne’s ratings?’ I said, ‘Mark, how big were they?’ ‘They were unbelievable! Over 18 million people! And it was about us!'”