Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With Growing Dramas
CBS posted the top score in Tuesday prime ratings, NCIS leading the Eye to a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That squeaked by the 0.9/5 that NBC tallied.
NBC won the previous Tuesday, when it had This Is Us.
NCIS got a 1.1, FBI a 0.9 and NCIS: New Orleans a 0.8. All three were up a tenth of a point.
On NBC, The Voice fell 15% to 1.1 and special Dolly Parton: 50 Years at the Opry got a 0.8.
ABC and Fox both rated a 0.6/3. ABC had The Conners at 1.1 and Bless This Mess at 0.7, both up a tenth of a point. Mixed-ish did a flat 0.6 and Black-ish fell 17% to 0.5. Emergence posted a level 0.5.
On Fox, The Resident and Empire both tallied a 0.6. Resident lost 25% and Empire dropped 14%.
Univision scored a 0.5/3 and Telemundo a 0.4/2. Univision had La Rosa de Guadalupe up 25% to 0.5. The Cuna de Lobos finale was 0.5 and El Dragon did a 0.4, both flat.
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For Telemundo, film Escape Plan scored a 0.3, El Final Del Paraiso a 0.4 and El Senor de los Cielos did a 0.4. The series were flat.
The CW scored a 0.3/2. The Flash lost 20% for a 0.4 and Arrow picked up 50% for a 0.3.
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.