It has taken a few years to get to air, but finally “Community” and “Rick and Morty” co-creator Dan Harmon’s new adult animated comedy “Krapopolis” premiered on FOX on Sunday night.
The results were good – an average 3.6 million viewers tuned in to the first episode in Live+Same Day data from Nielsen with the show pulling in a 1.2 rating among adults aged 18-49.
That makes it the highest-rated entertainment program of the week, the first time an animated series has achieved that since “Family Guy” in 1999. It’s also the highest-rated telecast for an original comedy in 2023, beating the 1.0 record of NBC’s “Night Court” revival.
The second episode, which aired directly afterwards, fell to 1.8 million viewers on average and a 0.5 among adults 18-49. The series premiere benefitted from airing directly after FOX’s NFL telecast of the Kansas City Chiefs-Chicago Bears game.
“Krapopolis” marks the first new scripted series of the Fall as the strikes have forced broadcasters to use unscripted programming and repeats.
Fox also says that this was the most-watched animation series premiere in the past ten years.
Source: Variety
