Ratings Report: ‘All of Us Are Dead’ Continues To Bloom, ‘Grown-ish’ Experiences Decrease In Viewers

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Broadcast: Based on the 2017 Argentinian television series La Chica Que Limpia, Miranda Kwok’s The Cleaning Lady premiered on Fox on January 3, 2022. It centers on Thony De La Rosa, portrayed by Élodie Yung, a former Filipina medical doctor who is currently settled in Las Vegas on an expired visa. The reason for her prolonged stay is her five-year-old son Luca, who has a rare and life-threatening medical disorder. He needs a cutting-edge bone marrow treatment only available in Las Vegas. Because she can’t legally work in the US, she makes a living as a cleaning service worker alongside her sister-in-law, Fiona. After witnessing a serious crime, she’s offered a job both as a cleaner and doctor within a criminal organization that could aid in her son’s treatment. In this new position, Thony lives a double life, cleaning up murder scenes, dodging the law, and keeping secrets from her family. The development of this series started on October 22, 2019, when Warner Bros. Television Studios acquired the remake rights to La Chica Que Limpia. With Kwok, Melissa Carter, and Shay Mitchell slated as executive producers, Fox gave the project a pilot order, making it the first for the network’s 2020-2021 television season. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was ultimately pushed back to the 2021-2022 season with the series receiving a greenlight for ten hour-long episodes on May 7, 2021. Originally, Shannyn Sossamon was cast as the series lead but left the project after the pilot’s table read. With Yung taking over the lead role, the ethnicity of the character changed to Cambodian, but the aspects of Filipino culture would be included. The rest of the cast includes Adan Canto, Oliver Hudson, Martha Millan, Sebastien and Valentino LaSalle, Sean Lew, and Faith Bryant. The series premiered to 3.65 million U.S. viewers but has decreased to 3.12 million on its February 14th episode. While Yung has been praised for her performance, the critic’s consensus on Rotten Tomatoes states that “[it] needs to polish its clichés into something more substantial if it wants to truly sparkle.” The Cleaning Lady marks the first time a Fox primetime series has been produced by and starring an Asian female. Its season finale is set for March 7, 2022.

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Cable: Introduced as a backdoor pilot in 2017, Grown-ish is an American sitcom series and spin-off of the ABC series Black-ish. Using the single-camera model, it follows Johnson's eldest daughter Zoey, portrayed by Yara Shahidi, as she goes to California University of Liberal Arts beginning her journey to adulthood. However, she quickly discovers that not everything is in her favor when she’s left to fend for herself. Deon Cole, Trevor Jackson, Francia Raisa, Emily Arlook, Jordan Buhat, Chloe Bailey, Halle Bailey, Luka Sabbat, Diggy Simmons, and Chris Parnell make up the rest of the cast. The series is created by Kenya Barris and Larry Wilmore, known for the creation of Black-ish, and is produced by Khalabo Ink Society, Cinema Gypsy Productions, and Principato-Young Entertainment. Anthony Anderson, Brian Dobbins, and Helen Sugland serve as executive producers. Freeform ordered 13 episodes in May of 2017 and has subsequently renewed it for 3 more seasons. The fourth season premiered on July 8, 2021, with the second half premiering on January 27, 2022. James Poniewozik of the New York Times wrote in 2018 that the show “[resembled] in tone and style to please old fans, but not yet as different as it will need to be in the long run.” Now in its fourth season, it seems to have paved a voice for itself without relying too heavily on the original series. It sits at the 10:00 PM spot on Thursday and recorded 170,000 U.S. viewers for its February 17th episode. Competing with shows such as Jeopardy! College and The Winter Olympics, it seems as though its audience took a hit when compared to the first half of season 4, which recorded numbers over 200,000 U.S. viewers. With the final episode of season 4 set to release on March 24, 2022, time will tell if it will be picked up for a fifth season.

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Streaming: On January 28, 2022, Netflix released the South Korean coming-of-age series titled All of Us Are Dead. Based on the Naver webtoon Now at Our School by Joo Dong-geun, it stars Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young, Cho Yu-hyun, Lomon, Yoo In-soo, Lee Yoo-mi, Kim Byung-chul, Lee Kyu-hyung, and Jeon Bae-soo. It centers on a virus outbreak at Hyosan High School, turning those infected into human-eating zombies. To survive, high school students must fight for their lives and find a way outside. While this is happening, the Korean military works to isolate the outbreak and protect the country from an epidemic. Created by Lee Jae-kyoo, Chun Sung-il, and Kim Nam-su, this zombie apocalypse series consists of one season with twelve episodes that has a run time of 53 to 72 minutes. In an interview at Naver TV Entertainment, Director Lee Jae-kyoo stated that he chose actors that were less known to the public because he believed that it would add to the immersion of the series. Matt Fowler of IGN wrote that the series does not offer up anything new in this genre, however, it succeeds in its use of action and survival horror. At its core, the series creates enough humanity to bring the audience in. It currently is still sitting on Netflix’s top non-English television series at number 1, with a total view count of 113.240 million hours. As Netflix’s most popular Korean series since Squid Game, many viewers are hoping for a second season due to the many questions that remained unanswered after the season finale.

International Series: Toy Boy is a Spanish drama produced by Atresmedia and Plano a Plano. It centres on a young, handsome stripper named Hugo Beltrán, portrayed by Jesús Mosquera, in the Costa del Sol. After a night of partying, he wakes up on a sailboat next to a burned corpse thought to be his lover’s husband. While he does not remember anything of the night, he does know that he is not the murderer but instead a part of a set-up. After a trial, he is sentenced to fifteen years in prison and seven years later, is visited by a lawyer who offers to help him reopen his case. Triana Marín, portrayed by María Pedraza, gets Hugo released from prison pending the holding of a new trial to prove his innocence. Together, they try to unravel what happened that night. It premiered on FesTVal and Atresplayer Premium in September 2019 before its premiere on Antena 3 on September 25, 2019. It is created by César Benítez, Juan Carlos Cueto, Rocío Martinez and stars Mosquera, Cristina Castaño, and Pedraza. In its domestic run, season one received mediocre viewership figures but has enjoyed a better reception on Netflix. Due to this, Atresmedia and Netflix decided to bring back the series for a second season in July 2020. The second season aired on Netflix on February 11, 2022 and has been in the Global Top 10 for TV (Non-English) for the past 2 weeks.