Primetime Ratings: Football Falls on Fox

Fox won Thursday prime Nielsens by a mile, with football setting the winning pace despite dropping from last week. Thursday Night Football led Fox to a 3.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. In a distant second was ABC at 0.9/4.

Giants-Patriots took up Fox’s prime. Last week’s game, Seahawks versus Rams, got a 3.7.

ABC had Grey’s Anatomy at a flat 1.3, A Million Little Things down 11% to 0.8 and How to Get Away With Murder at a level 0.5.

CBS got a 0.7/3 and NBC a 0.6/3.

On CBS, it was Young Sheldon at a flat 1.0 and The Unicorn off 13% at 0.7. Mom got a flat 0.8 and Carol’s Second Act slid 14% to 0.6. Evil rated a level 0.6.

On NBC, Superstore did a flat 0.8 and Perfect Harmony dropped 20% to 0.4. The Good Place rated a 0.6 and Sunnyside a 0.3, both flat, then Law & Order: SVU slid 14% to 0.6. Univision scored a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/2.

On Univision, La Rosa de Guadalupe rated a level 0.4 and La Usurpadora dropped 17% to 0.5. El Dragon got a flat 0.5.

On Telemundo it was Exatlon Estados Unidos and El Final Del Paraiso at 0.4, Exatlon down a tenth and El Final flat, then No Te Puedes Esconder off 33% for a 0.2

The CW posted a 0.3/1. Season premieres for Supernatural got a 0.4, down a tenth from last fall’s opener, and Legacies a 0.3, level with last year’s premiere.

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.