Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Growing ‘Thursday Night Football’

Fox won Thursday prime ratings, with Thursday Night Football leading the way. Fox got a 2.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 14 share. In second was ABC at 0.7/4.

It was Halloween.

Fox had 49ers versus Cardinals. The rating was up a tenth over last week’s Redskins-Vikings encounter.

ABC had Grey’s Anatomy down 15% at 1.1 and A Million Little Things off 22% for a 0.7. How to Get Away With Murder slid 20% to 0.4.

NBC did a 0.6/3 and CBS a 0.5/2. NBC had Superstore down 13% to 0.7 and Perfect Harmony up 25% to 0.5. The Good Place shot up 17% to 0.7 and Will & Grace grew 20% to 0.6. Law & Order: SVU got a flat 0.7.

On CBS it was comedy reruns before an Evil repeat at 10.

Telemundo posted a 0.5/2 and Univision a 0.4/2. Telemundo aired Exatlon Estados Unidos, which fell 20% to 0.4 and El Final Del Paraiso was a level 0.5. El Senor de los Cielos lost 33% for a 0.4.

On Univision it was 0.4s for La Rosa de Guadalupe, Cuna de Lobos and El Dragon.La Rosa lost a tenth and the other two were flat with last week.

The CW rated a 0.2/1. Special The 13 Scariest Movies of All Time got a 0.2 and the Mysteries Decoded finale a flat 0.1. 

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.