“24” and “Homeland” producer Howard Gordon returned to FOX with the crime anthology drama series “Accused” on Sunday night, and the premiere drew record ratings.
The show pulled in a 2.0 rating among the advertiser-friendly 18-49 demographic as well as 8.4 million viewers in Live+Same Day Nielsen data.
That makes it the highest-rated and most-watched debuts across broadcast or cable in the last three years, excluding the 2021 Super Bowl lead-in to “The Equalizer”.
It’s also more than double FOX’s other new drama series “Alert: Missing Persons Unit” which managed 3.8 million and a 0.8 rating in Live+Same Day earlier this month. Both FOX series had fooball lead-ins which helped their numbers.
It’s also now the top-rated scripted telecast of the 2022-23 television season to date for both broadcast and streaming.
Based on the BBC series, the series chronicles ordinary people with each episode opening in a courtroom introducing the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial. We are told the events that lead them here from the defendant’s point of view.
Rachel Bilson, Whitney Cummings, Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin, Michael Chiklis, Margo Martindale, Molly Parker, Rhea Perlman, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Wendell Pierce and Jack Davenport star.
Source: TV Line
