Primetime Ratings: CBS and Fox Win With Unscripted Stuff

Fox and CBS were tops in Thursday prime ratings, both networks riding unscripted hits a 0.6 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That beat the 0.5/3 put up by NBC and Telemundo.

It was a pretty weak night for broadcast ratings.

ABC did a 0.4/2. Univision got a 0.3/2 and The CW a 0.1/1.

On Fox, MasterChef rated a 0.7 and Spin the Wheel a 0.5, both shows flat.

On CBS, it was Love Island at 0.5 and Big Brother at 1.0, then Elementary at 0.4. All three were level with last week.

NBC had a repeat of The Wall and then Hollywood Game Night at a flat 0.5 and a Law & Order: SVU repeat.

Telemundo had Un Poquito Tuyo at 0.3, Betty en NY at 0.5 and La Reina del Sur at 0.7, all three shows flat.

ABC had Holey Moley at a flat 0.6 and Family Food Fight up 33% at 0.4, then Reef Break at a level 0.3.

On Univision, La Reina Soy Yo did a 0.4 and La Rosa de Guadalupe and Por Amar Sin Ley both a 0.3.

The CW had iZombie at 0.2 and The Outpost at 0.1, both shows 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.