{"id":332487,"date":"2026-03-10T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332487\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:39:09","slug":"r-j-decker-scores-abcs-top-10-pm-drama-premiere-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332487\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;R.J. Decker&#8217; Scores ABC&#8217;s Top 10 PM Drama Premiere In 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/abc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abc\" data-tag=\"abc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>\u2018s new crime drama <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/r-j-decker\/\" id=\"auto-tag_r-j-decker\" data-tag=\"r-j-decker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R.J. Decker<\/a> starring Scott Speedman is fitting right in with the network\u2019s Tuesday lineup of light character-based procedurals. R.J. Decker\u2018s premiere drew 3.69 million Live+Same day viewers behind Tuesday 8 PM anchor Will Trent and 9 PM\u2019s High Potential to post ABC\u2019s most watched 10 PM drama debut in over five years, since the premiere of Big Sky on Nov. 17, 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThat is above the L+SD premieres of High Potential and Will Trent, which both launched in the 10 PM hour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAdditionally, R.J. Decker, which shares DNA with High Potential as both are comedic dramas about a civilian solving crimes with the help of observation, is proving to be a compatible lead-out for the Kaitlin Olson starrer, logging the best lead-in retention to date, 73%, higher than any episode of The Rookie has been able to hold onto behind High Potential. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThrough six days, the premiere of R.J. Decker has amassed 11.64 million multiplatform viewers across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+, digital platforms and two linear encores and has held onto the top daily spot on Hulu\/Disney+ for days. For comparison, the High Potential 2024 debut reached that viewership mark in three days. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStarring Speedman as a former newspaper photographer and ex-con starting his life over as a private investigator, R.J. Decker also logged 5.25 million viewers in Live+3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEpisode 2 airs tonight on ABC, streaming next day on Hulu. In it, Wish enlists R.J.\u2019s help on a bizarre case when his late cellmate\u2019s son is wrongly accused of murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC\u2018s new crime drama R.J. Decker starring Scott Speedman is fitting right in with the network\u2019s Tuesday lineup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[10046,146,85,46,163755,411],"class_list":["post-332487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-abc","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-r-j-decker","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}