Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With ‘Thursday Night Football’

Fox won Thursday prime ratings by a mile, Thursday Night Football leading the net to a noisy 3.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 17 share. In second was ABC at 0.9/4.

Rams-Seahawks took up all of Fox’s prime, the Seahawks winning by a point. A week before, Eagles-Packers got a 3.9.

ABC had Grey’s Anatomy down 13% at 1.3, A Million Little Things off 18% at 0.9 and How to Get Away With Murder down 17% at 0.5.

CBS got a 0.8/4 and NBC a 0.6/3. Both had comedy blocks.

Young Sheldon did a 1.0 and The Unicorn a 0.8 on CBS, both level with their premieres, and Mom got a 0.8 and Carol’s Second Act a 0.7, those two flat as well. Drama Evil fell 14% to 0.6.

On NBC, it was Superstore at 0.8 and Perfect Harmony at 0.5, both flat. The Good Place got a 0.6 and Sunnyside a 0.3, both down a tenth of a point. Law & Order: SVU rated a flat 0.7.

Univision rated a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2. On Univision it was La Rosa de Guadalupe at a flat 0.4 and La Usurpadora up 20% to 0.6. El Dragon grew 67% to 0.5.

On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos climbed 25% to 0.5 and El Final Del Paraiso posted a flat 0.4. No Tu Puedes Esconder went up 50% to 0.3.

The CW scored a 0.2/1 with IHeartRadio Music Festival on across prime. Night one did the same number the night before. 

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.