Fireplace Nation rode the coattails of the AFC Championship to pink sizzling rankings for its January 29 episode.
The episode, which moved from its standard Friday primetime spot on CBS to Sunday after the matchup between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Cincinnati Bengals, tallied 12.22M complete viewers in seven-day viewing, which is up about 20% from the 10M that tuned in same-day.
The episode’s delayed viewership marks the second greatest seven-day viewers for a scripted collection this season, coming in simply behind the season premiere of Yellowstone (which posted 12.68M viewers). It’s additionally one of the best seven-day viewers for a broadcast tv scripted collection for the reason that NCIS: Hawai’i episode that aired after final yr’s AFC Championship.
It’s pretty typical for exhibits on any community with an NFL lead-in, particularly a playoff recreation, to get a lift in rankings. This yr’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs vs. Cincinnati Bengals matchup earned CBS the most-watched NFL convention championship recreation in 4 years with 53.1M individuals tuning in.
For reference, this season of Fireplace Nation is at the moment averaging an viewers of about 6M individuals per episode. The episode that aired this previous Sunday noticed 6.4M individuals tune in.
In accordance with CBS, the January 29 episode of Fireplace Nation additionally earned the biggest streaming viewers of any CBS collection up to now throughout Paramount+ and CBS digital platforms. When tallied throughout all platforms (stay, playback, VOD and streaming), the episode is the most-viewed CBS scripted unique since NCIS on April 6, 2021.
Fireplace Nation stars Max Thieriot as Bode Donovan, a younger convict looking for redemption and a shortened jail sentence by becoming a member of a jail launch firefighting program in Northern California, the place he and different inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish huge, unpredictable wildfires throughout the area. It’s a high-risk, high-reward task, and the warmth is turned up when Bode is assigned to this system in his rural hometown, the place he was as soon as a golden all-American son – till his troubles started. 5 years in the past, Bode burned down every thing in his life, leaving city with a giant secret. Now he’s again, with the rap sheet of a legal and the audacity to imagine in an opportunity for redemption with Cal Fireplace.
The drama, from Jerry Bruckheimer Tv and CBS Studios, is impressed by Thieriot’s experiences rising up in fireplace nation and stems from an unique concept by the actor, who additionally co-penned the story for the pilot with its writers, Tony Phelan and Joan Rater.
Fireplace Nation airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
