Primetime Ratings: CBS Comedies Win Night
CBS won a lackluster Thursday ratings derby with a 1.9 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That was just ahead of Fox’s 1.8/6 and ABC’s 1.7/6, then NBC’s 0.7/3 and CW’s 0.6/2.
The broadcasters were up against yet another Republican debate, on CNN.
The Big Bang Theory did a 3.5 for CBS, down 5% from its last original airing, and Life in Pieces a 2.1, up 17%. Mom grew 6% to 1.8 and 2 Broke Girls was a flat 1.7 before Elementary did a flat 1.1.
Fox’s American Idol rated a 1.8, down a tenth from the previous week, with two young hopefuls sent home.
ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy rated a 2.1, down 9%, and Scandal was down 6% at 1.6, before How to Get Away With Murder did a flat 1.4.
On NBC, You, Me & the Apocalypse rated a flat 0.6. After a Law & Order: SVU repeat, Shades of Blue did a 1.0, same as last week.
On The CW, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow slipped 22% to 0.7, and The 100 was off 20% to 0.4.
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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.