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. It’s hilarious!
This is one of the few really fun and entertaining series, hope it will return for a third season.
My family loves the show! Renew!!!
RENEW!!!! AWESOME SHOW!!!!
Love ❤ this show! It really makes me laugh! I love how they get along so good and the fun they have.
My husband and I just LOVE LOVE LOVE this program and we looked forward to our Monday nights to watch it! We always have the best laughs watching it. Please renew it!
Well ok show. HW is a egomaniac.Show about him
Renew, please. Finally a show that I don’t want to miss! It’s good enough to DVR it, and I’m constantly telling people about various scenes, like some kind of missionary. LOL
The show is awesome. Watch via demand mostly, vice Monday night. However watch with 6 others. We love it!! I know my friends love it also. We are not that old, late 40s.
This show makes you feel great. With all the rest of the garbage that is found on this thing we’ve use to call the Boob Tube this show makes you feel when you first met Henry Winkler Bill Shatner on there old shows it feels like their our friends and family same as the rest of the gang we grow up with these guys except Jeff who I’m sure all of us would like to be him
I love the show (especially William Shatner), even thought we have to wait a few months to watch it in the UK. More please.
Renew it! It’s definitely a winner. One of the best shows on t.v.
Hell Yes! Renew it. It is one of my favorite shows.
Yes Renew!!!
RENEW!!!! OMGosh I LOVE these guys!!!!