Primetime Ratings: ‘Chicago Fire’ Helps NBC to Win
NBC took the Tuesday ratings title with a 1.5 in viewers 18-49, according to Nielsen’s overnights, with a 5 share. CBS trailed at 1.1/4, then The CW, driven by a strong performance by The Flash, at 1.0/3. Fox posted a 0.9/3 and ABC a 0.8.3.
Ratings points were hard to come by. On NBC, Hollywood Game Night registered a flat 1.2, then Chicago Med was also flat at 1.6, before Chicago Fire rated a 1.8, up 6% from last week.
CBS had a repeat of NCIS before NCIS: New Orleans at 1.2, down 33% from last week, and Limitless at 0.8, also down 33%.
The Flash was up 8% to 1.4 on CW, before a repeat of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.
On Fox, New Girl rated a 1.2, down 8%, and Grandfathered a flat 0.9, then Brooklyn Nine-Nine at 1.0, down 9%, and The Grinder was down 13% at 0.7.
ABC had repeated comedies leading into Marvel’s Agent Carter, which was flat at 0.9, then What Would You Do? at 0.7.
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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.