Primetime Ratings: Mighty ‘AGT’ Leads NBC
NBC won top prize in Tuesday prime, with the America’s Got Talent semifinals leading the Peacock to a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. ABC was next at 0.8/4.
America’s Got Talent, with Queen Latifah as guest judge, did a 1.4. Bring the Funny scored a 0.7. Both shows were flat with last week.
The AGT season finale happens September 18.
On ABC, Bachelor in Paradise was up 10% for a 1.1 and led into repeat comedies.
Univision scored a 0.5/3 with the U.S. versus Uruguay soccer match across its prime.
CBS, Fox and Telemundo did a 0.4/2.
On CBS it was repeats. Fox had a repeat of The Resident and the First Responders Live finale at a level 0.4.
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Telemundo had Exatlon Estados Unidos up 25% to 0.5, El Final Del Paraiso at 0.4 and Preso No. 1 at 0.3, the latter two level with last week.
The CW did a 0.1/1. Pandora had a 0.2 and Mysteries Decoded a 0.1, Pandora up a tenth and Mysteries down a tenth.
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.