Primetime Ratings: Fox Grabs Title With Robust ‘Empire’
Fox won the Wednesday ratings race, riding Empire to a 1.3/5. That was a little better than NBC’s 1.2/5.
Most shows were up, compared with their Halloween-impacted ratings a week before.
Empire climbed 25% to a 1.5 and Star grew 22% to 1.1.
On NBC, Chicago Med grew 9% to 1.2 and Chicago Fire went up 8% to 1.3, before Chicago P.D. was a flat 1.1.
ABC and CBS did 1.1/5s.
On ABC, The Goldbergs shot up 30% for a 1.3 and American Housewife went up 22% to 1.1. Modern Family escalated 17% for a 1.4 while Single Parents went up 11% for a 1.0. A Million Little Things went down 13% for a 0.7.
CBS had Survivor up 23% to 1.6 and SEAL Team up 13% to 0.9, then Criminal Minds north 14% to 0.8.
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The CW was at 0.4/2. Riverdale slipped 20% to 0.4 and All American was a level 0.3.
Telemundo and Univision both had a 0.4/2.
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.