CBS' Much-Anticipated MacGyver Reboot Off To A Good Start
CBS' MacGyver reboot came on top last week drawing 10.9 million total viewers with a 1.7 rating among adults aged 18-49 on Friday. This rating was the best ever in 11 years for CBS in that timeslot.
The action-adventure show's ratings surpassed the ratings of the previous show that held the Friday slot owned now by MacGyver. The Amazing Race got in 5.8 million viewers and held a rating of 1.2.
Ratings for MacGyver was higher than the other premier for the week, Fox's The Exorcist, which received a rating of 1.0 and had 2.9 million viewers. It in fact outdid all other shows for the night among total viewers and adults 18-49.
MacGyver is a remake of the iconic 1985 TV series that ran for seven season on ABC which saw the lead Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) use simple hacks and ingenuity rather than guns to solve problems. CBS owns the rights to the show as a result of its acquisition of the original Paramount Television.
The reboot stars Lucas Till as Angus "Mac" MacGyver a secret agent operative of a clandestine U.S. government organization called the Department of External Services (DXS), created by him.
A trained scientist MacGyver uses his scientific knowledge and special powers to create extraordinary objects out of ordinary items for "unconventional problem-solving". The show also stars George Eads as Jack Dalton a former CIA agent who accompanies him in high risk missions across the world. Patricia Thornton (Sandrine Holt )is the director of operations while Riley Davis (Tristin Mays) is a computer hacker par-excellence. Wilt Bozer (Justin Hires) is his blissfully unaware roommate.
CBS had put MacGyver for the fall schedule banking on its impressive recall. It had rejected a previous pilot made last year opting to hire Peter Lenkov of Hawaii Five-0's earlier this year to rewrite the script completely for the show.
