Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins on 'Grey's' Raise
ABC got the win in Thursday prime, with Grey’s Anatomy pacing the Alphabets to a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That squeaked by CBS’s 0.9/4.
Station 19 fell 8% to 1.1 on ABC and Grey’s Anatomy ticked up 8% to 1.4. How to Get Away With Murder scored a 0.6, up 50% over its last new episode late last year.
On CBS, Young Sheldon went up 18% to 1.3 and the season starter of Man With a Plan did a 0.9. Man opened at 1.1 last season. Mom grew 25% to 1.0 and the series premiere of comedy Broke posted a 0.6. Drama Tommy increased 20% to 0.6.
Univision was next at 0.6/3. La Rosa de Guadalupe and Amor Eterno did 0.7s, Rosa up 17% and Amor up 40%. Sin Miedo a la Verdad grew 25% to 0.5.
Fox got a 0.5/3 and NBC a 0.5/2. Fox had Last Man Standing down 13% to 0.7 and a Last Man rerun. A Mental Samurai repeat followed.
NBC had Superstore down 22% to 0.7 and Brooklyn Nine Nine off 29% at 0.5. A Will & Grace rerun led into Indebted at 0.3, mostly in-line with last week’s 0.4 and 0.3 double run. Law & Order: SVU slid 14% to 0.6.
Telemundo got a 0.4/2. Exatlon Estados Unidos got a 0.5 and La Dona a 0.4, both flat. Operacion Pacifico dropped 25% to 0.3.
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The CW did a 0.1/0 with reruns of Katy Keene and Legacies.
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.