Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With Strong ‘NCIS’

CBS won top spot in Tuesday ratings, the network riding a robust NCIS to a 0.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That beat the 0.8/4 that NBC posted.

NCIS did a flat 1.1 and FBI was off a tenth of a point at 0.8, then NCIS: New Orleans went up 17% to 0.7.

On NBC, The Village grew 17% to 0.7 and The Voice was a flat 0.9. New Amsterdam scored a 0.8, also flat.

NBC won the Tuesday title the week before.

Fox did a 0.7/3 and ABC a 0.6/3.

MasterChef Junior rated a level 0.7 on Fox and Mental Samurai went up 20% to 0.6.

American Housewife grew 13% to 0.9 on ABC and The Kids Are Alright was a flat 0.7. Black-ish did a 0.7 and Bless This Mess a 0.7, both comedies flat, then 1969 rated a level 0.4.

Telemundo did a 0.6/3, with hit drama La Reina del Sur at 0.7, same as last week.

The CW scored a 0.4/2. The Flash got a flat 0.5 and the premiere of The 100 a 0.3, down a tenth from its season premiere a year ago.

Univision scored a 0.4/2. 

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.