Primetime Ratings: 'Big Brother' Drives CBS to Win

CBS won Thursday ratings with repeats of The Big Bang Theory followed by a new episode of Big Brother. The network did a 1.0 and a 5 share, per the Nielsen overnights, and averaged 4.86 million total viewers.

Fox came in at 0.8/4, with 2.57 million total viewers.

Big Brother averaged a 1.4, down a tenth of a point from its June 27 premiere. A SWAT repeat finished up prime for CBS.

Fox's The Four grew 14% to 0.8 from 8 to 10 p.m.

ABC and NBC tied at 0.6/3. On ABC, The Gong Show did a 0.5 and Match Game a 0.7, then Take Two scored a 0.5. All three shows were flat with last week.

NBC had Little Big Shots at a flat 0.7. Back-to-back Marlon episodes rated a 0.6, same as last week, and a repeat of Law & Order: SVU aired 10-11 p.m.

Univision and Telemundo were both at 0.5/2.

The CW did a 0.2/1 with repeats.

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Chelsea Anderson has been with Future for two years. She started as an intern with NewBay Media/Multichannel News in 2015. During her time she wrote bylined articles and program reviews as well as helped with research graphics for the magazine. She later became News Assistant for Broadcasting & Cable in 2017 until 2020 when she became Assistant Content Producer. Chelsea graduated from Niagara University in 2016 with a Bachelor's in Communication Studies and a double minor in Writing Studies and Sociology.