Archer and others succeeded after initially seeing terrible ratings (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
star signs
'archer and others' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.
'succeeded after initially seeing terrible ratings' is the wordplay.
'succeeded' becomes 's' (genealogical abbreviation).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'initially' suggests taking the first letters.
'terrible' indicates an anagram.
The initial letter of 'seeing' is 's'.
'ratings' is an anagram of 'tarsign'.
's'+'tarsign'='starsign'
's' put after 'starsign' is 'STAR SIGNS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for star signs that I've seen before include "guidance from the heavens" , "Areas into which the zodiac is divided" .)