This past week on September 24th, at 10pm, The Player premiered on NBC. There were plenty of skeptics who didn’t think the show was enough of a powerhouse to compete against How To Get Away With Murder, and others who believed it would be just absurd enough to draw The Blacklist‘s audience to itself. However, when this first week of ratings came through, they fell flat.

TV By the Numbers showed the incredibly stacked line-up on Thursday, and told us who grabbed the audiences. Spoiler alert, it wasn’t The Player. In the adults 18-49 range, The Player had a rating of 1.2, in comparison to How To Get Away With Murder‘s 2.6. This still seems to be low, so we look to CBS and Thursday Night Football (8pm-11pm) as intruding on the 10pm-11pm time slot with a rating of 4.0 in adults 18-49. The audience I assume The Player wanted to grab, was the overflow from NBC’s Heroes Reborn at 8pm-10pm. Unfortunately, the show to show change was sizable drop from a 1.9 to a 1.2. I’m curious to see if The Player‘s ratings will rise as the season goes on, or continue to drop until it’s dropped.