Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins Despite ‘Voice’ and ‘This Is Us’ Drops
NBC earned the top spot in Tuesday ratings, riding a consistent New Amsterdam to a 1.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That beat the 1.0/5 that CBS posted.
On NBC, The Voice slid 13% to 1.4 and This Is Us, featuring six different Thanksgivings, fell 10% to 1.8. New Amsterdam scored a flat 1.1.
On CBS, NCIS was down 14% for a 1.2 and FBI was off 9% to 1.0, then NCIS: New Orleans dropped 11% to 0.8.
ABC was next at 0.9/4. The Conners got a 1.4 and The Kids Are Alright a 0.9, both comedies losing a tenth of a point, then Black-ish slid 20% for a 0.8 and Splitting Up Together lost 14% for a 0.6. The Rookie scored a level 0.7.
The CW did a 0.4/2. The Flash got a 0.6 and Black Lightning a 0.3, both dramas flat.
Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.4/2.
Fox did a 0.3/2 with reruns.
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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.