Primetime Ratings: NBC Scores With Growing ‘AGT’

NBC had the top score in Wednesday prime ratings, as the America’s Got Talent results show led to a 0.8 in viewers 18-49 for the night, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. Close behind was Fox at 0.7/4.

America’s Got Talent went up 9% to 1.2. Past standouts Darci Lynne Farmer and Preacher Lawson performed. Songland grew 14% to 0.8 and Hollywood Game Night rated a flat 0.4.

On Fox, MasterChef did a flat 0.8 and BH90210 slid 14% to 0.6. Fox won the Wednesday race the week before.

CBS got a 0.6/3. Big Brother posted a flat 1.1 and led into repeats.

ABC did a 0.4/2 with repeats across prime.

Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.4/2. Telemundo had Exatlon Estados Unidos and El Final Del Paraiso at 0.4 and Preso No. 1 at 0.3. All three were level with last week.

On Univision, La Rosa de Guadalupe, Juntos and Sin Miedo a la Verdad all got a 0.4. All three were up a tenth of a point.

The CW rated a 0.2/1. Bulletproof got a 0.2 and Hypnotize Me a 0.1, Bulletproof up a tenth and Hypnotize Me flat.

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.