Marshals, a Yellowstone spinoff focused on Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes), drew the biggest premiere audience for a scripted show of the 2025-26 season — and quite a few seasons before that. Excluding shows with football as a lead-in, Sunday’s debut episode had the largest same-day audience (9.52 million viewers) for a broadcast scripted series premiere since FBI topped 10 million viewers in September 2018. (One caveat: Nielsen has changed its ratings collection methodology a few times since 2018.)
The 9.52 million viewers also puts Marshals ahead of most episodes of its parent show. While the season 5B premiere of Yellowstone accumulated 16.4 million viewers on its first night in November 2024, that number includes an eight-network simulcast on cable, replays on Paramount Network and a special showing on CBS.
Marshals edged ABC’s Dancing With the Stars…
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