Primetime Ratings: Fox Rocks With Pre-Season Football

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Fox was the big winner in Thursday ratings, riding pre-season football a gaudy 1.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 8 share. That beat the 1.0/5 put forth by CBS.

Fox had Eagles versus Browns throughout its prime.

CBS had comedy reruns, then Big Brother down 6% at 1.6, followed by a SWAT repeat.

ABC and NBC did a 0.5/2. ABC had The Gong Show at 0.5, off 38% from its last airing, and The Story of the Royals at 0.5 from 9 to 11 p.m.

NBC showed an Ellen’s Game of Games repeat, then a Trial & Error double run, including the finale. Both Trial & Error episodes did a 0.4, down from last week’s 0.5 and 0.4. A Law & Order: SVU repeat closed out prime.

Telemundo rated a 0.5/3 and Univision a 0.4/2.

The CW did a 0.2/1 with repeats.

Michael Malone
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.