Primetime Ratings: ‘Big Brother’ Drives CBS Win

CBS took the top broadcast prize Wednesday, with the season 18 premiere of Big Brother at a 1.8 in adults 18-49 across two hours, per the Nielsen overnights, and the debut of American Gothic at 0.7. That gave CBS a 1.5/6 for the night.

Big Brother debuted to a 2.0 last summer.

Next up was NBC at 1.0/4, then Fox at 0.9/3, ABC at 0.8/3 and The CW at 0.2/1.

NBC had two hours of American Ninja Warrior repeats at 1.0, then a new The Night Shift at 0.9, down 10%.

Fox featured MasterChef at 1.0, down 17%, and Wayward Pines at a flat 0.7.

ABC was in repeats, as was The CW.

Michael Malone

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.