As renewal season grows nearer and nearer I thought it would be interesting to compare the ratings of Ap Bio, a new comedy, with the ratings of a more seasoned NBC 30min comedy to see how the two compare. The show that I decided to compare AP Bio with was Superstore as it airs just before AP Bio on Thursdays.

AP Bio appears to have been struggling in the ratings world even for an NBC comedy. Since the show has settled into a “regular” schedule it has been averaging around a .8 rating each week. Meanwhile, Superstore in its third season is averaging a rating of 1.07 so far in its season, with generally ~1,000,000 viewers more each week than AP Bio.

While this difference of almost 0.3 in ratings does seem significant the question is how big this difference really is for NBC and if potentially 0.3 could be the difference between a show getting renewed and a show getting cancelled. This will be important to keep an eye on as we are in the home stretch of announcing renewals with April upon us.