Sunday Night Ghost Town: Soft Launch for ABC’s Red Widow

No quick fix for troubled 10 p.m. time slot

Like a strip mall that houses an endless succession of failed take-out restaurants, some time slots are seemingly doomed to failure. And unfortunately for ABC, its Sunday 10 p.m. hour appears to be one of the more haunted slots on the dial.

According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day ratings, ABC’s special two-hour premiere of its midseason crime drama Red Widow failed to scare up much of a crowd last night, delivering 7.13 million viewers and a 1.5 in the adults 18-49 demo.

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