Last May, CBS announced a bold move, to take their hit The Big Bang Theory off of the Monday night schedule and shift it to Thursdays, to take on NBC’s traditional night of comedy. In its place, the programmers put another show co-created by Chuck Lorre, the creator of Two and a Half Men. On paper, it sounds like a brilliant move. Now that the Mike & Molly’s premiered, how do things look?
Mike & Molly follows Officer Mike Biggs (Billy Gardell) and Molly Flynn (Melissa McCarthy), a fourth grade teacher. They meet at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting and soon fall for one another. Others in the cast are Reno Wilson, Nyambi Nyambi, Katy Mixon, and Swoosie Kurtz.
The new sitcom debuted to a 3.9 rating in the prized 18-49 demographic and 12.2 million total viewers. That was enough to tie with NBC’s The Event for second place in the demo and have the second most number of viewers.
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Historically, the CBS sitcoms who get the post-Two and a Half Men timeslot have done very well. CBS has high expectations however and has ended up cancelling several sitcoms that performed okay on this night. While the sitcom has good initial numbers, it’s not a positive sign that Mike & Molly lost 20% of the lead-in’s demo audience. Last year, Big Bang Theory was building on the lead-in and frequently outperformed Men in the demo.
There was a loss of about 7% of the audience midway through the Mike & Molly first episode so its seems likely those people won’t be back next week. It remains to be seen how many people will. This is a show whose fate will likely be decided over the next several weeks. Right now, things could go either way. Some critics and viewers have wondered how long it will be before the show runs out of material.
What do you think? Is Mike & Molly worth watching? Did you find the fat jokes offensive? Would you cancel or keep it?
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LOVE IT!!! Can’t wait until next week to see what else happens. Very Funny!!!
me and my family love this sitcom on tv. I got some other pepole hooked on it.so can you please keep it on they are all funny especially the pot head sister.we laugh for the hole time it is on.we think that the show is hillarious.
My husband and I think this is a very funny new sitcom and we want it to continue so please keep the show going as we are looking for more good things to come for Mike and Molly. They are so cute together and the shows characters along with them make it great!
Keep this show , please! It’s the best sit-com on television!
MY FAMILY AND I LOVE, LOVE THE SHOW! IT IS HILLARIOUS!!!
love love it it’s fresh and funny!!!
I likes the pothead sister…keep
I love this show. Please keep it. It’s hilarious.
I say KEEP IT! My wife and i LOVE this show…CBS should get rid of Two & a Half men…it’s done it’s time!
Then again, CBS has made Stupid Decisions all along like Getting rid of “Still Standing” and shows like that who have STRIVED in reruns.
My husband and I laugh all the way through the show. We really love Mike’s mother. I don’t know who she is but she is hillarious!!!! Love it!
KEEP KEEP KEEP Mike and Molly. So funny and so cute!!!
My husband and I love Mike and Molly.
I don’t know who the writers are on this series but they are the funniest in the business. This show NEEDS to stay on the air.
I think it should be kept on,my wife and I both enjoy it.
I VOTE KEEP! I LOVE MIKE AND MOLLY AND I GOT MY HUSBAND LIKING IT TOO. UNFORTUNATELY I DON’T WATCH IT ON MONDAY NIGHTS BECAUSE IT’S ON THE SAME TIME AMERICAN PICKERS IS ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL, SO I ND UP WATCHING IT ONLINE. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM GET MARRIED AND HAVE KIDS. EACH CHARACTER MAKES THE SHOW, MUCH LIKE FRIENDS AND SEINFELD DID. IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO CANCEL IT. I FELT THAT SAME FOR GHOST WHISPER, I LOVE THAT SHOW AND OWN ALL EPISODES ON DVD, NOW IT’S GONE.