Decent Start for Dads, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Fox Tuesday night comedy block returns to encouraging numbers

Fox’s second stab at a two-hour Tuesday night comedy block got off to an encouraging start, as three of the four sitcoms outperformed the year-ago time slot occupants.

According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, the new Seth MacFarlane comedy Dads earned decent sampling at 8 p.m., drawing 5.76 million viewers and a 2.2 rating among adults 18-49. That marked a 29 percent improvement over the 1.7 rating notched by the season premiere of Raising Hope.

Building on the Dads lead-in was the new Andy Samberg comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which drew 6.17

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