Not So New Girl Anymore

With two months now under it's belt and the World Series now long-since passed, New Girl is settling in and finding its permanent audience.  The nearly one month hiatus through October makes New Girl still feeling like a new premiere with only 6 episodes having already aired.  Consequently, there was no Halloween episode, though a Thanksgiving show aired last week.

The month off is also evident in the declining ratings that I expect many FOX sitcoms have experienced in the past few weeks. "Thanksgiving" carried a 6.91 rating, a slight increase over the previous week's 6.84.  Both of these are a drop from my birthday late September when the series carried a rating in the low 9's.  Regardless, this still seems like healthy viewership for a sitcom, at least to me when it is competing on a network full of reality and content shows, which also happens to represent FOX's primary audience.  That being said, we already know New Girl has an order in for a full season, so it's looking as though the series could easily pick up a second season if ratings stabilize over the next few months.