{"id":269466,"date":"2026-02-05T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269466\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:38:08","slug":"high-potential-season-2-ratings-hit-their-highest-level-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269466\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018High Potential\u2019 Season 2 Ratings Hit Their Highest Level So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe breakout ratings performance of ABC<\/a>\u2019s High Potential<\/a> shows no signs of slowing down midway through its second season.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series delivered its biggest seven-day audience to date with the Jan. 20 episode, drawing 12.98 million viewers after a week of streaming and other delayed viewing. That\u2019s more than double its first-night total of 5.93 million viewers. The episode\u2019s 2.17 rating among adults 18-49 (equivalent to about 2.95 million people in that demographic) is a fivefold increase from its starting point of 0.41.<\/p>\n

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\n\tCounting only linear delayed viewing (i.e., DVR playback), the High Potential episode drew 9.07 million viewers \u2014 the best seven-day total for any ABC series since Grey\u2019s Anatomy in November 2020 \u2014 and a 0.76 rating among adults 18-49. That means it added 3.91 million viewers and 1.41 ratings points (65 percent of the cross-platform total) to its 18-49 rating. \u00a0 <\/p>\n

\n\tHigh Potential\u2019s Tuesday companions The Rookie<\/a> and Will Trent<\/a> also put up strong ratings on Jan. 20. The Rookie\u2019s 9.65 million viewers were the most for the show in more than 5 1\/2 years \u2014 since May 2020 \u2014\u00a0and it drew a 2.08 rating among adults 18-49 (about 2.79 million of those viewers). It also had the largest percentage growth of the three shows from its initial airing, increasing by 161 percent in total viewers (from 3.7 million) and by nearly 600 percent in adults 18-49 (from 0.3).<\/p>\n

\n\tWill Trent climbed to 9.14 million viewers (from 5.67 million to start) and a 1.08 rating in adults 18-49 (about 1.47 million people). Both of those figures are on par with the show\u2019s cross-platform, seven-day averages for the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The breakout ratings performance of ABC\u2019s High Potential shows no signs of slowing down midway through its second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6761,156,22196,111,139,69,107002,437,5067,152931],"class_list":{"0":"post-269466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-high-potential","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-the-rookie","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-tv-ratings","17":"tag-will-trent"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}