Hollywood Reporter:
Dr. Ken, a surprise hit on ABC‘s Friday block, is now the fourth broadcast freshman of the 2015-16 (and the second at ABC) to score a full season. The network has ordered a back nine episodes be produced, bringing the multicam sitcom’s order to a full 22.
Starring Community vet Ken Jeong, and loosely based on his own life, Dr. Ken is among the strongest first-year comedies of the fall. Often building on its lead-in from fellow broad comedy Last Man Standing, the series is averaging an impressive 6.6 million viewers and a 1.5 rating among adults 18-49. This past Friday, averaging a night-of 1.3 rating in the key demo and 5.8 million viewers, it also proved to be immune from comedy competition from NBC — which is airing its own comedy block in Friday’s 8 p.m. hour this fall to far less success.
Dr. Ken joins NBC’s Blindspot, Fox’s Rosewood and ABC’s Quantico as one of the few series to get a full season — and that comes as we enter the fifth week of fall TV.
