Great news, guys! Midnight, Texas had a great start ratings-wise. It has been labeled as the highest-rated drama series premiere this summer. Congratulations to the entire cast and crew!

DEADLINE – NBC made a seamless transition in the Monday 10 PM slot, with new supernatural drama Midnight, Texas drawing a 0.9 adults 18-49 rating and 3.6 million viewers for its premiere, on par with the Season 2 debut (and Season 2 average) in the hour for the unscripted Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge earlier this summer.

Midnight, Texas easily topped the 10 PM preview of new ABC drama Somewhere Between, which debuted to a lackluster 0.6 in the demo and 3.07 million viewers, just a tenth higher in 18-49 than the premiere of the short-lived Still Star-Crossed in the time period earlier this summer.

In Live+same day adults 18-49, Midnight, Texas ranks as the highest rated drama series premiere — new or returning — this summer and ties NBC’s recently canceled The Carmichael Show as the highest rated scripted summer series opener this summer.

Deadline has reported that NBC is bringing Midnight, Texas to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con on July 22nd! Executive producer, Monica Owusu-Breen and the major cast are all likely to attend. It’s more exciting as the panel will be held just two days before the series premiere.

The network is bringing the July 24-debuting series based author Charlaine Harris’ book trilogy to the San Diego confab, I’ve learned. No world on the location at the convention center, but the Universal TV- and David Janollari Entertainment-produced drama will be showing up for a panel July 22. That’s just two days before the show executive produced by Niels Arden Oplev, Monica Owusu-Breen and Janollari premieres on the Comcast-owned net.

From what I hear, Owusu-Breen as well as the major cast of Midnight are likely to be in attendance for the panel. For those of you who like to name check, that cast includes François Arnaud, Dylan Bruce, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Ramos, Peter Mensah, Yul Vazquez and Jason Lewis.