Things I Don't Care About: The New Roseanne - Updated

Original post:
Seriously. Is there really an audience for a reboot of this show, which originally ran from 1988-1997? It starts tonight, we'll know soon if anyone is actually watching.

Wednesday morning update: I don't care about this show but a lot of people do, or at least a lot of them watched. Ratings were through the roof:

The first two episodes of Roseanne, a full hour at the top of the ABC lineup, won the night by both adults 18-49 and total viewers. The show averaged a 5.1 rating in the key demo and 18.1 million viewers, rising from the first half hour to the next. The first number alone is enough to make Roseanne the highest-rated regularly-scheduled scripted show of the last few seasons, since Empire at its peak, as well as the highest-rated sitcom broadcast in over three years.

That's an incredibly strong start for the sitcom, thus far only committed to nine episodes. The easiest comparison is another revival, NBC's Will & Grace. The other reboot, one that helped jumpstart Roseanne and the current trend, premiered with a 3.0 rating in the key demo and just over 10 million viewers at the start of the season. (From The Hollywood Reporter, read the entire story here.)