Primetime Ratings: Gordon Ramsay Shows Grow on Fox
Fox won a tight ratings race in Wednesday prime, its Gordon Ramsay shows bringing the network a 1.0 rating in viewers 18-49, and a 5 share. That topped the 0.9/4 that ABC and NBC put up.
MasterChef grew 11% to 1.0 on Fox, then Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back went up 29% to a 0.9.
On ABC, the CMA Festival, showing the brightest lights in country music, took up all of prime. Its 0.9 was a 25% drop from last year.
On NBC, which won the race last Wednesday, World of Dance did a flat 1.1 from 8 to 10 p.m. and the Reverie finale a level 0.4.
CBS rated a 0.8/4. Big Brother scored a flat 1.5 and was followed by SEAL Team and Criminal Minds reruns.
Telemundo was at 0.5/3, aided by El Senor de los Cielos’ 0.7.
Univision did a 0.3/1.
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CW was at 0.1/1. Burden of Truth lost a tenth of a point for a 0.1 and was followed by a Supergirl repeat.
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.