Ratings Are In 6/1/15: FOX toon reruns lead to soft Golan premier

In a statistic that should surprise no one, when you air a bunch of cartoon repeats on Sunday Night leading into a brand-new series, it’s hard to as for a stellar premier. That said, Golan the Insatiable did a good job of keeping their lead-in audience which was comprised mostly of Family Guy rerun. Couple in the fact that FOX did almost no press for this show mostly due to the fact that the PR people responsible for Golan suck at their jobs, and you’ve got yourself a rather soft start.

Variety had this to say about the numbers:

Fox aired encores of “Bob’s Burgers” at both 7 (0.4/2 in 18-49, 1.2 million viewers overall) and 7:30 (0.5/2 in 18-49, 1.3 million viewers overall), “The Simpsons” (0.8/3 in 18-49, 2.1 million viewers overall), and “Family Guy” (0.9/3 in 18-49, 2.1 million viewers overall). Closing out the night was the premiere of “Golan The Insatiable” (0.6/2 in 18-49, 1.6 million viewers overall), which had been launched as part of Fox’s latenight Animation Domination HD block about 18 months ago. “Golan” retained about 70% of the “Family Guy” repeat in most categories, and held all of the veteran’s teen 12-17 audience (0.5 rating).

So yea, the Golan ratings are soft, but I think it’s encouraging that the series kept a majority of the audience that tuned in for the night on FOX. Furthermore, I think this should ignite a fire under FOX’s ass to green light some more original shows to surround Golan with so that this way it gives more people reason to tune-in.

Read our review for the premier episode of Golan the Insatiable.