"The game averaged 18.5 million U.S. viewers, peaking at 21.3 million between 9:30-9:45 p.m. ET. Among adults 18-34, it averaged 4.0 million viewers — the highest non-Christmas streaming number ever for a regular season game."
America Decides is a reimagined version of the show that currently airs in that timeslot on the streaming platform, Red & Blue, which debuted six years ago.
CNN has previously tried to bolster its Friday evening programming by adding the Overtime segment from Real Talk with Bill Maher in the 11:30 PM ET timeslot.
"I don’t have a fear that this doesn’t work. My fear is that I will hold on to pieces of that last experience — both good and bad — and that this works in an amazing way, and I’m still not content."