FOX is sticking with the old folks of The Cool Kids. The network has given a back-nine order to the freshman comedy which will raise its count to 22 episodes for its first season.
It joins its Friday companion, the breakout Last Man Standing revival, which had a full-season 22-episode order from the start. The series has done a respectable job holding onto a significant part of its Last Man Standing lead-in. The Season 7 premiere of the Tim Allen comedy drew a 2.7 Live+7 adults 18-49 rating and 13.4 million multi-platform viewers to date to rank as the most-watched Friday regular comedy telecast on any network in 15 years, and FOX’s most-watched comedy on any night in 4 1/2 years. Leading out of that, the debut of The Cool Kids (2.1, 10.2 million) was the most-watched Friday broadcast comedy debut in almost six years. While both shows slipped in Week 2, Last Man Standing‘s ratings actually ticked up in Week 3 while The Cool Kids stabilized with a very small dip.
The Cool Kids revolves around three guy friends in a retirement community who are the top dogs until they’re blown out of the water by the newest member of the community, a female rebel whose ready to challenge their place. Vicki Lawrence, Martin Mull, David Alan Grier, and Leslie Jordan star.
