It’s time for our annual off-topic discussion of who will watch the Super Bowl’s lead-out program. NBC has the broadcast rights to Super Bowl 52, and the last time they had an opportunity to air something, they chose to air The Blacklist in 2015, which got 25.724 million viewers.
This year, NBC is airing an episode of This is Us, a drama in its second season that has become one of the most popular shows on television. The fact that this is a Super Bowl episode, plus the added notion that viewers will finally get to learn what happened to Milo Ventimiglia’s character Jack, could call for the biggest rating for a lead-out Super Bowl drama in years.