An NBC reality TV series, Better Late Than Never follows Henry Winkler, William Shatner, Terry Bradshaw, and George Foreman as they travel the world, with both help and misdirection from tech-savvy comedian, Jeff Dye. In the second season, the celebrities journey to Munich, Berlin, Lithuania, Sweden, Barcelona, Madrid, and Morocco. There, they’ll meet up with dozens of natives and guest stars including David Hasselhoff and Al Roker, as well as Björn Ulvaeus, of ABBA.
In its first season, Better Late Than Never aired over the Summer of 2016 and averaged a 1.58 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 7.31 million viewers. Those were pretty healthy numbers, especially for a summer series.
This time around, NBC decided to order twice as many episodes and aired them around the holidays and as filler leading up to the Winter Olympics. That scheduling didn’t work out too well for the boys and the ratings have seen a big drop. Compared to the first season, season two is averaging a 0.89 demo rating with 4.75 million. That’s down by 44% and 35%, respectively. It’s currently one of the network’s lowest-rated shows of the 2017-18 season.
It’s unclear if NBC will cancel or renew Better Late Than Never for a third season but the numbers aren’t looking good. What is clear is that a healthy percentage of the first season’s audience isn’t watching the show on Monday nights (our readers seem to still love it).
What do you think? Are you still watching this NBC series? Would you like to see a third season of Better Late Than Never or, do you think the series should be cancelled instead?
RENEW the show. i enjoyed every minute!!! Twice!
Please don’t cancel this show! Better Late Than Never is great! It’s a funny entertaining show that the whole family can watch! Keep it and get rid of some of those dark murder shows!
I LOVE watching these guys OMG they are great I wish their show was on longer I watched them from the very first show and I really enjoyed them and the chemistry is awesome. GREAT TELEVISION SHOW!!!! RENEW RENEW RENEW
We love the show, my whole family, sisters, brother, parents, grandparents watch ed, and we have seen the episodes over and over, they are soo fun to watch, RENEW
Best show on Tv! Pease renew!!
YES! YES! YES! HILARIOUS SHOW. LOVE IT!!!
Please, Please, Please Renew! So funny and refreshing in our complicated world. It’s just what we need right now!
PLEASE RENEW!! I’ve never had such happy hysterical laughing fits. Henry Winkler has never ridden a motorcycle – are you kidding?! I agree with Ester, I did not know when it was scheduled to show. A little advance advertising would be helpful
Please renew
PLEASE, PLEASE RENEW!!!
Definitly renew. It is hilarious, I laughed so hard I as crying . We watch the show every week, plus watch the reruns on demand. The cast is great and the show is the funniest one on tv. It would probably get better ratings if it wasn’t on at the same time as “The Bachlor”
We love this show and definitely want it back!
Please renew! This show reminded me that NBC exists and I really don’t want to forget again. We have three generations that sit and laugh together for each episode!
My whole family loves this series. Hope there’s a 3rd season. Funniest show on TV
I literally cannot eat when I watch the show. I laugh so hard I choke on my food! My wife and I stumbled upon it by looking for things on demand. And then to our great pleasure there was a season 2, now we’re hoping for season 3. we think it’s one of the funniest shows on TV, please renew