Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With ‘Big Brother’

CBS won a tight Wednesday ratings race, Big Brother leading it to a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That beat the 0.9/4 that Fox tallied.

Big Brother did a 1.5, up 67% from last week, when it was up against July 4th fireworks on NBC. The premiere of TKO: Total Knock Out scored a 0.9 while Code Black grew 33% to a 0.8.

On Fox, MasterChef lost 10% for a 0.9 and Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back fell 18% to 0.9.

Next was NBC at 0.7/4. An America’s Got Talent repeat went from 8-10 p.m., then Reverie climbed 33% for a 0.4.

ABC was at 0.5/2 with repeated comedies and a Shark Tank rerun.

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

The CW did a 0.2/1. After a repeat of The Outpost,The Originals slipped 33% for a 0.2.

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.