Primetime Ratings: Fox’s ‘Star’ Debuts Well

Fox took top honors Wednesday with a 2.4 rating in adults 18-49 and a 9 share. Empire, trying out a different time slot to lead viewers to Star, rated a 2.7, up from last week’s 2.5. The premiere of Star did a promising 2.2.

According to Nielsen’s overnights, CBS did a 1.8/6, ABC a 1.5/6, NBC a 1.5/5 and The CW a 0.3/1.

CBS’ Survivor finale scored a 2.0, up 18% from last week, before the reunion special tallied a 1.4. The spring finale rated a 2.1, and that reunion show a 1.5.

ABC’s comedies, up against NBC’s Hairspray Live! a week before, mostly rebounded Wednesday. The Goldbergs grew 13% to 1.7 and Speechless climbed 23% to 1.6. Modern Family fell 9% from two weeks ago to 2.0 and Black-ish increased 33% to 1.6, before the Designated Survivor winter finale grew 9% to 1.2.

NBC’s A Pentatonix Christmas Special, featuring the vocal group crooning Christmas chestnuts, scored a 1.4, while the two-hour A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special rated a 1.5.

On CW, Top 12 Greatest Christmas Movies rated a 0.3, as did a re-airing of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

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.