On September 15th, 2015 Neil Patrick Harris premiered his first show of Best Week Ever on NBC and the ratings favored in decently well. The first show of the 22 that will air over this fall followed the season finale of “America’s Got Talent” which may have led to the precursor of folks at home continuously watching and not flipping channels after the premiere to stay tuned for this new unexpected show and to see what it was all about. The hour long variety show averaged a 1.9 rating/7 share in adults from 18-49 and 6.8 million viewers overall in the 10 o’clock hour according to national estimates from Nielson, which led to their win of their overall time slot in each category. The show went from a 2.0 in the demo at 10:00pm to a 1.7 at the 10:30pm marker which Variety concludes as a fairly low drop for a show in the late hour coming out of a higher rated program.

The show itself consisted of seemingly random segments that consistently had no common thread such as a random couple whom NBC had been following for months, showing old clips of them and old photographs, Reese Witherspoon casually guest MCing from a high rise booth above the audience, Nicole Scherzinger’s 15 second strip tease to the audience to her own PussyCat doll song “Dont Cha.”  The 90s commercial icon Carrot Top held his own guest appearance, while Gloria Gaynor belted “I will Survive” with audiences participating in the SingAlong segment in their own homes. One audience member at the end played a questions and number game and won prizes and trips, as a trip to Paris and Jeep give away were on the table for her to win. NPH even challenged Reese to a obstacle course suspended in the air that fed into a zipline. But even with all of the “seemingly exciting” fast paced movements from the list above the show itself was slow moving and lots of mundane dialogue but Neil Patrick Harris. Looking forward to next week’s show and what new surprises they whip out!