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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?
PLEASE RENEW RENEW RENEW….GREAT FUN WATCHING SUCH WONDERFUL ICONS AND REAL MEN, HAVING FUN TRAVELING THE WORLD AND SHOWING US PARTS AND CULTUERS OF THE WORLD AND GIVING US SUCH A “REAL” INTERACTION AND REACTIONS TO SOMETHING NEW. DIFFERENT
CULTURES ALL WHILE TRULY LOVING AND APPRECIATING EACH OTHER FOR WHO THEY ARE…..IT WOULD BE SUCH A LOSS…..PLEASE RENEW…..
I absolutely want to see more of “Better Late Than Never”! I can’t remember the last time I laughed as hard or enjoyed a program as much as this one.
I love this show! Great cast and fun, fun, fun!!!
YES,YES,YES. ALL THE STARS ARE GREAT. YOU GET TO SEE DIFERENT COUNTRIES AND THEIR TRADITIONS AND FOODS. JUST GREAT.
Yes, yes, yes!!! Renew for at least one more season. Please! I only discovered this show a couple of weeks ago and my 18 year old daughter and I have just finished bing-watching both seasons. Hilarious and touching. We’ve never guffawed so much in our lives.
Yes We are still watching it and we love it, they are such crazy group and funny love Terry Bradshaw, we love to watch it again on Tuesdays on NBC.com, my kids have such a fun time and we cant wait for the following week to continue watching what will happened next time, also you get to see places you only dream of and not in a boring way but a fun way. Please renew you don’t get to see this kind of shows anymore. Love it LOve it Love it.
We love the show, extremely funny, and in good taste. We have friends now watching it too. We want, need more seasons of this show
Renew renew renew!!! Love this show it is a stress reliever!!!! They are so awesome!!! Please renew!!
Love the guys, love the show.please renew!
RENEW. Refreshing and funny.
RENEW the show. It is hilarious!!! Love the combo of these guys and you actually get to know a little about the places they go. The biggest fun is watching them eat foods they would never consider at home.
I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!! I love the actor and the places they go and most importantly that you can grow older but you don’t have to grow up. Please renew!!!
Best show on TV in a long time. RENEW
Please please please renew this!
Please renew the wonderful show. Looking forward to a season 3. Love this show and the cast is fantastic.