The Tick Will Continue to Fight Evil for Another Season
Amazon announced today that its superhero comedy The Tick, based on the Ben Edlund comic book of the same name, will be getting a second season. That news comes as no surprise as the series has received warm reviews and good buzz thus far in its first season on the streaming service. The second season will consist of ten episodes as did the first and is scheduled to debut at some point in 2019. That show returns for the second half of its first season on February 23rd.
The Tick follows the invulnerable but bumbling titular superhero along with his partner / sidekick Arthur who try to protect their city from the super-villain The Terror. It stars Peter Serafinowicz, Griffin Newman, Valorie Curry, Brendan Hines, and Jackie Earle Haley.
Ratings Results of Interest: Black Lightning Strikes with Its Premiere
On Tuesday, The CW’s newest superhero series Black Lightning had its debut and pulled a 0.8 rating based on same day viewing for the 18-49 demographic with 2.3 million total viewers (according to the preliminary numbers). That is a strong start for the show, especially on the fifth place network, and those are the best debut numbers that network has seen since Supergirl bowed in Fall 2016 (moving over from CBS the prior season). Since The CW is the happy network and likes to renew its shows, consider Black Lightning in good shape unless it completely tanks in the ratings in subsequent weeks (unlikely). In the lead-in hour, The Flash had a 0.8 rating with 2.4 million total viewers. That has been the network’s top-rated show and it will be interesting to see the competition it gets from Black Lightning in that respect for the rest of the season.
On Monday, FOX’s The Gifted posted a 1.0 rating with 3.4 million total viewers (based on the preliminary numbers) for its season finale. That show has been renewed for a second year. On Saturday, USA’s Falling Water slipped to a 0.08 rating with 413K total viewers for its second Season 2 episode. That show’s numbers are down year over year and I will be moving it to Bubble status. On Friday, CBS’s MacGyver improved to its best numbers of its second season as it posted a 1.0 rating with 8.1 million total viewers. At this point, that show is on track for a third year renewal.
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