Lately, it seems like everything Steve Harvey touches turns to gold, even botched Miss Universe announcements, and that doesn’t appear to be different with his latest venture, Little Big Shots.

The show, which is like an America’s Got Talent for kids, opened strong in a special preview behind NBC’s winter premiere of The Voice at a 2.9 rating/10 share, according to preliminary national estimates from Nielsen on Wednesday.

That makes Little Big Shots the highest-rated opening episode of a reality series among adults 18-49 since Fox’s The X-Factor premiered in September 2011. Little Big Shots also averaged 12.7 million viewers overall in the 10 p.m. hour, notching NBC’s best numbers in the time period since The Voice’s fall finale on Dec. 15.

Little Big Shots crushed its broadcast network competition for the night, particularly ABC’s premiere of Biblical drama Of Kings and Prophets, which opened at a 0.8/3 among adults 18-49 and probably isn’t a good bet to even finish out the season.

Little Big Shots also scored the fourth-highest premiere among adults 18-49 of any new show this season, behind Fox’s reboot of The X-Files, NBC’s Blindspot and CBS’ Supergirl. The show tied ABC’s The Muppets’ premiere among adults 18-49, and was beat only by Supergirl among total viewers.

The show moves to 8 p.m. on Sundays, starting this week. Leading into its premiere, Harvey said in interviews that he had a gut feeling the show was going to be big.

Little Big Shots is executive produced by Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Harvey, Jeff Kleeman, Gerald Washington and Robin Ashbrook, and Alison Holloway is the co-executive producer. The series is produced by Warner Horizon Television, East 112th Street Productions and a Very Good Production.

Brief Take: Steve Harvey + talent + kids = of course this show did well.

Read more: Variety

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