Primetime Ratings: ‘Big Brother’ Leads CBS to Thursday Win

CBS earned the top score in broadcast ratings Thursday, riding a robust Big Brother to a 1.1 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That was just ahead of ABC’s 1.0/4.

CBS had repeated comedies The Big Bang Theory and Mom, then Big Brother at a 1.8. Drama Zoo scored a 0.5. Both new episodes were flat with last week’s performance.

On ABC, a Celebrity Family Feud repeat led into Truth and Lies: The Murder of Laci Peterson at 1.0.

NBC did a 0.9/4, with repeats of American Ninja Warrior and Chicago Fire.

Fox was at 0.7/3, the Beat Shazam finale dropping 13% to a 0.7 and the Love Connection finale at a flat 0.6.

Telemundo rated a 0.7/3, with El Señor de los Cielos at a flat 0.9. Univision was at 0.5/2 with Enamorándome de Ramón and Mi Marido Tiene Familia at 0.6.  

The CW scored a 0.3/1. Penn & Teller: Fool Us did a 0.4 and Whose Line Is It Anyway? a 0.3. Both shows were flat.

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.