Four weeks into its 34th season, Dancing With the Stars is on a ratings roll.
The ABC show has grown its first-night audience every week since the season premiere on Sept. 16, hitting a high of 5.88 million viewers for Tuesday’s Disney-themed night . That was up a tick from 5.83 million same-day viewers a week earlier and marks the first time in the show’s long history that the same-day audience has grown for three consecutive weeks after a season premiere.
DWTS is also hitting with younger viewers at a level not seen in several years — not just compared to its own past, but for any network show that isn’t live sports. The show has topped a 1.0 rating among adults 18-49 (equivalent to about 1.36 million people in that demographic) in each of its first four weeks. With most shows