Freeform’s ‘Single Drunk Female’ Series Premiere Draws More Than 2.4 Million Multiplatform Viewers In Live+7
deadline.comFreeform’s comedy series Single Drunk Female got off a promising ratings start. The January 20 launch has amassed over 2.4 million multiplatform viewers in Live+7, according to Nielsen and Freeform, marking the network’s biggest comedy premiere since the Jan.
3, 2018 debut of grown-ish more than four years ago.The opening episode also was the most-watched Freeform comedy series premiere on Hulu, and the second-best performance overall for a Freeform series premiere on the platform, behind only Cruel Summer, which averaged 3.81 million multi-platform viewers in its first week.There is a caveat.
Freeform has only launched one comedy series since grown-ish, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, plus the pandemic-themed 2020 entry Love in the Time of Corona.
Still, Single Drunk Female‘s performance is respectable for a comedy on basic cable which traditionally are hard to launch. It complements the show’s critical success with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.Written and created by Simone Finch (The Conners), Single Drunk Female sees 20-something alcoholic Samantha Fink, played by Sofia Black-D’Elia, seize the only chance she has to sober up and avoid jail time: moving back home with her overbearing mother, Carol (Ally Sheedy).
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