“The Good Doctor” is off to a pretty great start on ABC. The freshman medical drama is the fifth-best entertainment series of the fall season among adults 18-49 (so, not counting sports) — fourth if you ignore “Young Sheldon,” which has only aired its series premiere thus far.
The Sony/ABC medical drama’s 3.2 demo rating, which includes a week’s worth of delayed viewing where available, places it just two-tenths of a Nielsen point behind ABC’s top-rated show, “Grey’s Anatomy” (3.4). NBC’s sophomore powerhouse “This Is Us” (4.4) is the only broadcast network drama that does better than those two in the age-range most attractive to advertisers.