Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins Amidst Repeats
It was a big Tuesday for NBC, as America’s Got Talent scored a 2.7 in adults 18-49, per Nielsen’s overnights, and Better Late Than Never notched a series high at 1.7. AGT was up 13% over the previous week, while Better Late crept up 6% in setting a series high. NBC noted that AGT's 13.7 million total viewers was the show's highest mark in five years.
NBC weighed in at 2.3 for the night, with a 9 share.
CBS did a 1.1/4, ABC a 0.7/3, Fox a 0.4/2 and CW a 0.3/1.
Big Brother did a flat 1.8 on CBS, with repeats filling out the prime grid.
ABC had comedy reruns before a repeat of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fox was in repeats too, as was The CW.
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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.