NBC may have a cult hit on its hands.
The Event premiered this week to so-so ratings. Why the brain trust at the Peacock network chose to launch their most hyped new series opposite
Monday Night Football is a question for more savvy ratings analysts. All I know is that the prototype fan of shows like
Lost and
24 – the exact target audience for
The Event - also loves him some football on Monday nights.
Questionable scheduling choices aside,
The Event has all the ingredients in place to become the next must-watch-every-minute-of, endlessly-debated-in-Internet-chat-rooms, obsessively-analyzed-show in the mold of
Lost.