The Equalizer Renewed for Second Season on CBS
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The pickup comes as the Queen Latifah-led reboot has put up strong viewing numbers in the weeks after its Super Bowl Sunday debut.
CBS is sticking with
The Equalizer.
The network has renewed the Queen Latifah-led reboot of its 1980s series for a second season in 2021-22. The pickup comes just four episodes into its first season, which began with a post-Super Bowl premiere and has put up solid ratings since.
The Equalizer has proven more than equal to the task of engaging viewers and racking up wins on Sunday night,” said CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl. We re extremely proud to see this outstanding broadcast drama, led by Queen Latifah, punch through the competitive landscape and return for a second season.
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CBS has renewed the Queen Latifah-led reboot of “The Equalizer” for a second season.
The series debuted following last month’s Super Bowl LV to 23.8 million viewers. Though it was the lowest-rated post-Super Bowl show ever (thanks to a 14-year low for the game), “The Equalizer” had the best retention for any show that premiered out of the big game in eight years. Through four episodes, the series has averaged 14.6 million viewers and ranks No. 1 for scripted series in the key adults 18-49 demo, partly due to its big Super Bowl number.
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Season in and season out, the Super Bowl is the most-watched broadcast across all of television for the calendar year. (Yes, even this year, when Super Bowl LV posted relatively unimpressive numbers.) That means it’s also the best lead-in of the year the kind that can propel the latest reboot of “The Equalizer” north of 20 million total viewers.
The Queen Latifah-led drama an adaptation of the Denzel Washington movies, which themselves were an update of a 1980s CBS series drew a 5.1 rating in the key demo and 20.4 million total viewers. Those Nielsen numbers were down from 2020’s post-Super Bowl “Masked Singer” Season 3 premiere episode and are pretty poor, historicall
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Queen Latifah has evidently been staying busy over the past few months. On January 9th, a promotional trailer for her upcoming series The Equalizer was released to the series Twitter account.