Primetime Ratings: ABC, CBS Tie on Weak Night
ABC and CBS tied for the win in Thursday prime ratings, both putting up a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That beat the 0.9/4 that NBC posted.
For ABC, Grey’s Anatomy lost a tenth of a point for a 1.4 and A Million Little Things was a flat 1.0, then How to Get Away With Murder scored a level 0.6.
For CBS, it was comedy repeats, then Mom down 15% to 1.1, Fam off 20% at 0.8 and drama SWAT up 13% to 0.9.
NBC had The Titan Games up 10% to 1.1 and Brooklyn Nine-Nine down 11% to 0.8, then Will & Grace down 13% at 0.7. Law & Order: SVU got a flat 0.8.
Fox got a 0.7/3. Gotham fell 14% to 0.6 and The Orville was a flat 0.7.
Univision did a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/2.
The CW rated a 0.2/1 with TheTop 14 Greatest Valentine’s Day Movies at 0.2, same as last year, and a Legacies rerun.
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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.