25 Million Viewers for The Office Post Super Bowl Episode?
According to TV By The Numbers, the February 1 episode of The Office, which airs right after the Super Bowl will roughly earn about 25 Million viewers. This would definitely be a big boost for the series! Here’s hoping it does happen, and perhaps even surpass it.
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From TV By The Numbers:
The episode of NBC’s The Office following the Super Bowl is likely to be seen by 25 million viewers if the recent past viewership of the “Program After The Super Bowl” is any indication. The viewership numbers for the “Program After The Super Bowl” are pretty crazy, hardly the relatively smooth increase shown by the Super Bowl itself, but I feel pretty good about a 25 million viewer guess.
Looking at the viewership of recent post-SB shows has last year’s House at 29 million, 2007’s Criminal Minds at 26 million, 2006’s Grey’s Anatomy at 37 million, the Simpsons at 23 million, but those shows were all somewhat more mainstream viewership shows, The Office is not quite the mainstream viewer magnet, so I think something a bit on the low side of those recent numbers is likely. NBC hasn’t had the Super Bowl in 11 years, so their recent history is no particular use.

January 10th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I can’t wait for this show to come back on January 15 with the episode called The Duel. It’s going to be awesome!