Primetime Ratings: ABC, CBS Share Thursday Title
Not much of a rating for ‘Star Trek: Discovery’s broadcast premiere
ABC and CBS shared the Thursday prime win, ABC with its game show premieres and CBS with Big Brother. Both got a 0.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share.
Celebrity Family Feud got a 0.7 on CBS and Press Your Luck a 0.6. Match Game posted a 0.5. All were season premieres.
On CBS, Big Brother grew 10% to 1.1 and Love Island rated a level 0.5. Star Trek: Discovery, which CBS borrowed from CBS All Access, got a 0.2.
NBC posted a 0.4/3. The premiere of The Wall got a 0.4 and two hours of Dateline a flat 0.4.
Fox, Telemundo and Univision all scored a 0.3/2. Fox had reruns.
Telemundo had Exatlon Estados Unidos and Todo Por Mi Hija at flat 0.3s. Falsa Identidad fell 33% to 0.2.
On Univision it was Medicos down 25% to 0.3 and Imperio de Mentiras at a flat 0.4. Dulce Ambicion got a level 0.3.
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The CW clocked a 0.1/1. Mysteries Decoded got a flat 0.1 and a Penn & Teller: Fool Us rerun followed.
Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.