{"id":502756,"date":"2026-03-04T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502756\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:21:07","slug":"marshals-premiere-draws-9-52m-viewers-biggest-ratings-since-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502756\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Marshals&#8217; Premiere Draws 9.52M Viewers, Biggest Ratings Since &#8216;FBI&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTaylor Sheridan\u2019s Yellowstone universe has successfully expanded to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>, bringing to the broadcast network the big linear viewership the mothership series was known for on sibling Paramount Network. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Sunday, March 1, debut of the series starring <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/luke-grimes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_luke-grimes\" data-tag=\"luke-grimes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Grimes<\/a> reprising his Yellowstone role as Kayce Dutton drew 9.52 million viewers (Live+SD Panel + Big Data), making it the most watched new series premiere of the 2025-26 broadcast season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThat is CBS\u2019 biggest scripted premiere without a direct or indirect football lead-in since FBI debuted with 10.09M viewers on Sept. 25, 2018. Boding well for its prospects, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/marshals\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marshals\" data-tag=\"marshals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marshals<\/a> exhibited an impressive 99% retention from the first half-hour to the second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMarshals\u2018 delivery is up from the high mark set by the Season 5 premiere of Yellowstone on Paramount Network, which drew 8.8M L+SD viewers. It also eclipsed the strong September 2024 debut of CBS\u2019 Matlock, which averaged 7.74 million with a 60 Minutes lead-in that was boosted by a Steelers-Chargers NFL game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/gallery\/tv-cancellations-2026-photo-gallery-2\/\" data-type=\"pmc-gallery\" data-id=\"1236660389\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 TV Cancellations Photo Gallery: Series Ending This Year &amp; Beyond<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLike the Matlock opener, Marshals, which airs Sundays at 9 PM, built on its 60 Minutes lead-in, which is rare \u2014 and it did it by a wider margin than the legal drama, 9.52M to 7.21M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Yellowstone spinoff was the most-watched broadcast series of the week, followed by two other CBS Sunday programs: Marshals lead-out Tracker (8.29M) and lead-in 60 Minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMarshals stars Grimes reprising his role as Kayce Dutton as he joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana. The series is produced by Paramount Television Studios and 101 Studios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRELATED: <a data-id=\"1236664347\" data-type=\"pmc-gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/gallery\/2026-tv-series-renewals-photo-gallery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 TV Series Renewals Photo Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Sheridan\u2019s Yellowstone universe has successfully expanded to CBS, bringing to the broadcast network the big linear viewership&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[991,88,80681,223967,9611],"class_list":{"0":"post-502756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cbs","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-luke-grimes","11":"tag-marshals","12":"tag-tv-ratings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}