ABC recently introduced a new sitcom to its popular Wednesday night, Mr. Sunshine. Will Matthew Perry’s new show find as much success as his former Friends castmate Courteney Cox’s Cougar Town?
On Mr. Sunshine, Perry plays Ben Donovan, the Manager of Operations at San Diego’s Sunshine Center sports arena. As he turns 40, Ben finds himself navigating though a seemingly never-ending series of bizarre requests, curious mishaps, and employee screw ups. It doesn’t help that he has a crazy boss (Allison Janney), sleeps with his marketing director (Andrea Anders), has a crazy new assistant (Portia Doubleday), and must put up with his boss’ less-than-skilled son (Nate Torrence). Ben’s best friend (James Lesure) works with him as well but also has a relationship with the marketing director.
The ABC sitcom debuted on February 9th to a healthy 3.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 10.52 million viewers. That was an improvement of 37% over the last original episode of Cougar Town in the timeslot.
Unfortunately, the following week, Mr. Sunshine’s ratings dropped by nearly 30% in the demo to a 2.6 rating an 6.93 million viewers. In week three, they dropped by 15.4% to a 2.2 rating and 6.12 million. Last week, they came back up to a 2.4 rating and 6.87 million.
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Right now, Mr. Sunshine is averaging a 2.7 rating and 7.61 million viewers. Based on the current ratings, it looks like the season will end up averaging about a 2.4 rating. That’s not great but puts the series in the middle of the pack. With the exception of Better with You, all of the ABC sitcoms are performing better (and have been renewed for next season).
ABC could go either way on this one but a renewal looks fairly likely. In the past, the network has renewed one or two shows that were on the bubble. This one would seem like a good choice if they still want to do that.
Cougar Town is averaging a 2.9 rating so, if ABC does decide to renew Mr. Sunshine, it probably won’t be back in the same timeslot — or maybe it could. However, at the recent TCA Winter press tour, ABC Entertainment Group President Paul Lee indicated that he’s interested in the network starting a second night of comedies. Mr. Sunshine could certainly help fill one of the timeslots, either on Wednesday or on a second night.
What do you think? Is Mr. Sunshine worth renewing or would you rather it be cancelled? Cancel or keep it?
Keep it PLEASE!!! It just started!!! KEEP MR SUNSHINE!!!
I love this show. There’s so little out there that’s good. Please don’t cancel!
Yes, keep it. It’s such a clever show adn real good humor
I love this show. Don’t cancel.
KEEP IT or suffer the wrath of the television God!
KEEP MR. SUNSHINE!
yay.
But seriously, keep it. It’s amazing. And I would cry. No lies. Do not make me cry. Why would you do that? That’s just cruel.
it MUST keepit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Matthew perry is the best!! C’on you guys, everybody know that Mathhew could make this serie, the best show ever !!!!!! Please vote and let’s renew Mr.Sunshine!!!!!!!!
keep keep
keep it it is one of the best shows on television
KEEP IT!
It’s for sure one of the best new TV shows this season!
It’s getting better and funnier episode by episode!
I really want to like this show but the writing isn’t very good and you can see the jokes coming from a mile away. It’s just a little too “over-the-top” most of the time.
I hope they drop it – I suffered through it three times, and found it awful.
Keep it!! Every episode has gotten more and more funny. I’d be pretty sad not to see it around for another season, and I would mosdef watch even if they did change time slot.
Keep it, definitely!!! It’s getting stronger episode by episode, it’s really good writing and the acting is superb. Keep it, please :))).
Keep it. It’s a hoot. Always leaves one with a smile and a good feeling.