A lot of people who work in or write about the television industry were, to put it mildly, surprised when CBS scheduled the premiere of “Undercover Boss” after the Super Bowl.
Well, it turns out that the folks at CBS knew what they were doing. “Undercover Boss” is the surprise hit of the season.

On Sunday, the fourth episode was the second-most-watched show of the night, trailing only the final night of the Winter Olympics. And the second half-hour of “Boss” actually beat the Olympics among the all-important 18-49 demographic.

The biggest question at this point is: How will the producers be able to keep this going? Now that “Undercover Boss” is a hit, how will they be able to keep up the pretense?

Now that tens of millions of people have seen the show, you’d think it would be far more difficult for the boss to show up, trailed by a camera crew, and not be instantly identifiable.

“That will be something that we have to address,” said executive producer Stephen Lambert. “We’ve got a number of ideas how we’re going to deal with that, which aren’t necessarily ideas that I think are good for me to articulate now.”

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The show, which averaged 15.1 million viewers, actually topped the Olympics in the demo from 9:30-10PM with a whopping 5.6. On the whole, though, the Olympics still gave NBC a victory for the night, averaging a 5.4 demo rating with 20.5 million viewers.