In terms of its demo average, the first season of Kevin James’ Kevin Can Wait TV show was a top three performer for CBS. The comedy also ranked in 10th place in terms of total audience size, during the 2016-17 television season. That doesn’t tell the whole story, though. The numbers dwindled after it lost The Big Bang Theory as its lead-in. In the second season they’re shaking things up, by killing off Erinn Hayes’ character, Donna Gable, and bringing on James’ King of Queens co-star, Leah Remini, to reprise her season one turn as Vanessa Cellucci. Can reuniting this comic duo further build upon this successful series’ ratings? Will Kevin Can Wait be cancelled or renewed for season three on CBS? Stay tuned.
A multi-camera sitcom, Kevin Can Wait stars Kevin James, Taylor Spreitler, Ryan Cartwright, Mary-Charles Joes, James DiGiacomo, Gary Valentine, Leonard Earl Howze, and Leah Remini. The CBS TV series centers on Kevin Gable (James). In the first season, this former police officer yearned to revel in his retirement. The second installment opens a year after the events of the season one finale. Now, in the wake of Donna’s death, Kevin finds himself working for his old rival, Vanessa, at her security firm. **Status update below.
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For comparisons: The first season of Kevin Can Wait averaged a 1.61 rating in the 18-49 year old viewer demographic and a total audience of 7.63 million viewers.
Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.
What do you think? Did you enjoy the Kevin Can Wait TV series? Should it have been cancelled or renewed for a third season on CBS?
**5/12/2018 Status Update: Kevin Can Wait has been cancelled by CBS. Details here.
cone up with new ideas kevin can waitbis nothing but a remake of king of queens and young sheldon nothing but another big bang
dont know whats worse kevin can wait or young sheldon both shows are stupid
so very stupid cancel this idiotic show already the first season was good this year i cant describe how terrible this show is
worst show ever all its nothing but a king of queens remake only kevin can wait is stupid and king of queens was hilarious get rid of this show
Didn’t agree with the way they took the wife of the show but she was not that funny Kevin n son n law are hallarous season 2 is the best Kevin and Lia are a great pair I can’t get enough of them I laughter after laughter especially episode 14 and 15 oh and wait love the British tall bald man he’s also very funny really hope they make a season 3
Kevin can wait can be canceled now that they fired Kevin’s wife. She was the funniest part of the show.
meant to say why dont you just make it a king of queens reunion
awful show its nothing but a king of queens remake and you want to bring in Patton Oswalt (played spence) why dont you just make it a king of queens remake and get Nichole Sullivan (played Holly) and Victor Williams (played deacon)
The show gets worse every week and he constantly repeats unfunny jokes. The kids are strange in that they don’t gel very well. Tired of the glutton, clumsy overeating fat guy routine and Remini looks like a phony. Not funny enough for me but I really wanted to like it. This show doesn’t deserve another year. Kill it CBS and show you have some taste.
I personally love Leah and KJ however lets just say I personally know one of the writers and because of him ALONE I will never watch this show again. All of my friends and family are behind me on this. I hope the show continues for years with out HIM.
I no longer watch because Leah Remini is a Trump basher and can’t stay out of politics. Has the show started bashing Deplorables’ yet?
Leah never talks about politics. Erinn Hayes is the loudmouth liberal. Go visit her Twitter page. You’ll see what I mean. I follow Leah and she never talks about politics.
I love Kevin and Leah, and I’ve been watching every episode since the show started. But, this show is dumber than the Paul Blart movies. Every week I hope it gets better and every week it gets dumber. It’s gone down hill since the last two episodes of last year. They turned him into a babbling idiot since Leah started appearing on the show. I keep trying to give the show a chance but the writing totally sucks! I don’t really see how anyone thinks this crap is funny. It’s not even stupid funny, it’s just down right stupid. It… Read more »
Update: Still watching and it still sucks! Time to CANCEL! Ratings way down, too.
I think that I am burned out on KJ. Would rather have seen him killed off and Erin and Leah run the show.
Kevin can wait and man with a plan can both be cancelled. They are two of the dumbest shoes on tv. Kevin James is just not funny.
Who wants to watch our dougie being a cop…don’t think so.