Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With ‘Last Man Standing’ Return

Fox won the Thursday ratings race thanks to the premiere of Last Man Standing. On a night replete with reruns, Fox’s two premieres led to a 0.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. In second was ABC at 0.7/3.

Two episodes of Last Man Standing did a 0.9 and the premiere of cop drama Deputy a 0.7. It is season eight of Last Man Standing.

ABC had special What is Jeopardy! at 0.9 and two hours of The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition at 0.6, better than last week’s 0.5 and 0.4.

Univision scored a 0.5.3. Ringo went up 20% to 0.6 and two hours of El Dragon posted a 0.5 and 0.4, mostly consistent with last week’s 0.5.

CBS rated a 0.4/2 and NBC a 0.3/2. CBS had repeats.

NBC had comedy reruns, then The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU at 0.3. An SVU repeat naturally followed.

Telemundo scored a 0.3/1. Decisiones lost a tenth for a 0.2 and La Dona was up a tenth from the night before at 0.3. El Senor de los Cielos also gained a tenth for a 0.4.

The CW did a 0.1/1 with reruns of Supernatural and Legacies

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.