Idol’s premiere scored a 2.3 demo rating, which is very solid, if not overwhelmingly impressive for a revival like this.
Like the viewer totals, the demo ratings dropped with successive episodes, and its most recent Sunday/Monday scores were 1.5 and 1.6, respectively.
(ABC is happier with Roseanne’s ratings, for sure.)
And ABC no doubt hoped that younger viewers would tune in to see pop star Katy Perry shaking things up on the judge’s table alongside Lionel Ritchie and Luke Bryan.