The second week of The Player airing did not prove very promising for the new show. It dropped from an adult age 18-49 rating of 1.2 to a 1.0. Its number of viewers also dropped from 4.68 million to 4.58 million. On the whole, this does not bode well for The Player. It was fighting against its ABC competitor in How To Get Away With Murder, who surprisingly also fell this week. Starting out on its air date on September 24, it decreased from an adult age 18-49 rating of 2.6 to a 2.3. This means a viewer decrease from 9.06 million to 7.53 million.

I would have initially blamed The Player‘s drop on its ABC counterpart, but now I’m not convinced. My money is now on CBS’s Thursday Night Football which airs from 8pm-11pm. This cuts right into the showtime of both programs, 10pm-11pm. Conversely, Football increases its ratings from week one to week two. Beginning on September 24, it started out with an adult age 18-49 rating of 1.4. October 1 brought that rating up to a 1.6, so I predict that the viewers of both shows went to CBS.