Primetime Ratings: Curious Pearson Kids Lead NBC to Win

NBC won big in the Tuesday prime ratings, as This Is Us led the net to a 1.5 in viewers 18-49, and a 7 share. In second was CBS at 1.0/4.

Ellen’s Game of Games did a 1.6 and This Is Us, with the Pearson siblings paying a visit to their father’s long lost, definitely not deceased brother, scoring a 1.9. New Amsterdam rated a 1.0. All three shows were down a tenth of a point from last week.

On CBS, Big Brother: Celebrity Edition got a 1.2, down 14% from its premiere the night before, and FBI fell 20% to 0.8. NCIS: New Orleans too got a 0.8, which was flat with last week.

ABC did a 0.9/4. The Conners finale went up 15% to a 1.5 and The Kids Are Alright grew 13% for a 0.9. Black-ish rated a level 0.8 and Splitting Up Together lost 14% for a 0.6, before The Rookie posted a flat 0.7.

Fox got a 0.5/2 with a repeat of Lethal Weapon and a new The Gifted at a level 0.5.

The CW also was at 0.5/2 with The Flash at 0.6 and Roswell, New Mexico at 0.4, both shows flat.

Telemundo and Univision both rated 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.