Episode 3, Season 2 of ‘Will Trent’ Draws Biggest Delayed Viewing Audience
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Episode 3, Season 2 of “Will Trent” drew its biggest viewership of the series in delayed viewing, TheWrap can exclusively reveal.
The episode, which originally aired on March 5, has been viewed a total of 11.23 million times in 35 days across ABC, Hulu and other digital platforms, according to Nielsen and internal metrics. It’s the show’s largest multiplatform audience to date.
The same episode of “Will Trent” also scored a 1.63 rating in the key broadcast demographic of adults 18-49 — marking the highest rating the Ramón Rodríguez-led show has achieved in more than a year since the fourth episode of its first season in January 2023. Not only was the episode the highest rating ever for Season 2, it was also up 7% from last week’s 1.53 rating, as well as up 10% when compared to the Season 2 premiere, which scored a 1.48 rating when it aired on February 20. “Will Trent’s” delayed rating was a significant increase — up 353% — from the episode’s original rating plus its day-of rating of 0.36.
“Will Trent’s” ratings followed a strong Season 2 debut in February, when the season premiere—which debuted back-to-back with “The Rookie” and “The Good Doctor”—earned 7.68 million viewers and a 0.80 live-plus-three-day multiplatform rating. At the time, the Season 2 premiere marked the show’s highest viewership to date, with the premiere’s attention up 5% from the series premiere, which drew 7.34 million viewers.
After initially debuting in ABC’s Tuesday 10 p.m. time slot, “Will Trent” was moved to 8 p.m. for its second season to lead the primetime slot, followed by “The Rookie” at 9 p.m. and the final season of “The Good Doctor” at 10 p.m. At the start of the season, Ari Goldman, ABC’s senior vice president of programming and content strategy, told TheWrap that the schedule change helped the network build its Tuesday drama lineup around the “engine” of “The Rookie,” giving “Will Trent” a chance to attract more viewers.
“Ramón is fantastic, and when you look at the entire cast, we saw that you could see this as a real ensemble and get a lot of story from our characters,” Simran Sethi, ABC and Freeform’s senior vice president of programming and content strategy, added. “We really believe in this show and the creative team behind it and wanted to invest in it.”
