Primetime Ratings: CBS, Fox Split Soft Night

CBS and Fox were the winners in Thursday prime ratings, on a night when no network exceeded a 0.7. Both CBS, in repeats, and Fox, with The Four, scored a 0.7/3. ABC and NBC were just off the slow pace at 0.6/3.

CBS had comedy reruns until 10 p.m., then a SWAT repeat.

Fox had The Four across its prime, level with last week’s 0.7.

ABC aired the season premiere of The Gong Show at 0.5, down 44% from last year’s premiere, and Match Game at 0.7, then the premiere of drama Take Two at 0.5.

On NBC, Little Big Shots fell 13% to 0.7 and a Marlon double run did twin 0.6s after last week’s 0.7 and 0.6. A Law & Order: SVU repeat closed out prime.

Telemundo did a 0.5/2 and Univision was at 0.4/2.

The CW rated a 0.2/1 with repeats.

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.