Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With ‘Millionaire’
‘Blindspot’ opens soft on NBC
ABC had the top score in Thursday’s primetime, with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire leading the Alphabets. ABC’s 0.7/4 squeaked by CBS’s 0.6/4.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire went up 13% to 0.9 and Station 19 lost 11% for a 0.8. How to Get Away With Murder lost 17% for a 0.5.
It was a soft night for ratings.
CBS had a Young Sheldon rerun, then Man With a Plan tallied a flat 0.7. After a Mom repeat, Broke got a 0.6 and Tommy a 0.5, both shows flat.
Univision was next at 0.5/3. Te Doy La Vida got a 0.5 and Amor Eterno a 0.6, both flat. Como Tu No Hay 2 went up 20% to 0.6.
Fox, NBC and Telemundo all posted a 0.3/2. The premiere of Celebrity Watch Party got a 0.4 on Fox and was followed by a Mental Samurai repeat.
NBC had two Council of Dads at 0.4 and 0.3, after last week’s 0.3. The season starter for Blindspot got a 0.3 and led into a Law & Order: SVU rerun.
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Telemundo had Cennet at a flat 0.4. 100 Dias Para Enamorarnos did a 0.3 and La Reina del Sur 2 a 0.2, both off a tenth.
The CW rated a 0.1/0. Katy Keene and In the Dark both rated a level 0.1.
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.