A scene from Monday night’s series premiere of “Life in Pieces” starring Dianne West and James Brolin.

On Monday night, CBS debuted its newest comedy, Life in Pieces, immediately following the season premiere of The Bing Bang Theory. According to TV by the Numbers, Life in Pieces drew in 11.28 million viewers for a 2.6 rating and a 9% share in the 18-49 demographic. Life in Pieces retained a good portion of The Big Bang Theory’s audience of 18.20 million for overall strong premiere numbers.

Life in Pieces was only completely outperformed by one of its competitors. The season premiere of The Voice pulled in 12.37 million viewers for an 18-49 rating of 3.5 and 11% share. On ABC, the second week of Dancing with the Stars didn’t fair very well in the 18-49 demographic with a 1.8 rating and 6% share, even though it pulled in 11.46 million viewers. Life in Pieces completely outperformed the season two premiere of Gotham on FOX, which had 4.57 million viewers and a 1.6 rating and 5% share among 18-49 viewers.

Early reviews of Life in Pieces have been mostly favorable, so it will be interesting to see how much of the audience will return next week for episode two.