Primetime Ratings: ‘Big’ Night for CBS

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CBS scored top honors among broadcasters Thursday with a 1.2 rating in 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. A repeat of The Big Bang Theory led into unscripted staple Big Brother at 1.8, up 6%.

Next up were ABC at 0.9/4 and NBC at 0.9/3, then Fox at 0.5/2 and The CW 0.2/1. ABC’s BattleBots scored a 0.9, down 10%, and music special Greatest Hits a 1.1 before a Match Game repeat.

On NBC, Olympic swimming trials did a 1.2, then Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge grew 25% to 1.0, while Aquarius was a flat 0.4.

Fox had a Bones repeat before Home Free drew a 0.5, level with last week.

On The CW, a repeat of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow gave way to Beauty and the Beast at a flat 0.2.

Michael Malone
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.