Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With ‘Jeopardy! GOAT’
ABC won Wednesday prime thanks to Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time. The network got a 1.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That topped NBC’s 1.1/5.
Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time features Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter and James Holzhauer competing. It did a 2.3, down a tenth from the night before. Modern Family got a 1.5 and Single Parents a 0.9 on ABC. Stumptown scored a 0.5.
NBC had its Chicago shows. Chicago Med and Chicago Fire got 1.1s and Chicago P.D. a 1.0. Those last aired in November and all three lost a tenth last night from those airings.
CBS did a 0.7/3 and Univision a 0.5/2. Fox and Telemundo got 0.3/2s and the CW scored a 0.1/0.
CBS had the Undercover Boss season premiere at 0.7 and the two-hour Criminal Minds premiere at 0.7. Undercover Boss’s last season premiere did a 1.1 and Criminal Minds’ prior season opener a 0.7.
Univision had Ringo and Amor Eterno at 0.5s, with Ringo up 25% and Amor Eterno flat with the night before. El Dragon went up 33% to 0.4.
Fox had Flirty Dancing and Almost Family at 0.3s. Flirty lost a tenth and Family was flat.
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On Telemundo it was Decisiones at 0.3 and La Dona at 0.3, then El Senor de los Cielos at 0.4. All went up a tenth.
The CW had reruns of Riverdale and Nancy Drew.
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.