Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Potent ‘This Is Us’

NBC cruised to the primetime win Tuesday, as a hot This Is Us led the network to a 1.9 score in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That beat the 1.3/5 put up by CBS.

Ellen’s Game of Games was off 18% at 1.8 and This Is Us, providing a peek at how Jack Pearson might perish, did a flat 2.5. Chicago Med closed out prime down 13% at 1.3.

On CBS, NCIS scored a flat 1.5 and Bull grew 17% to 1.4, then NCIS: New Orleans rated a flat 1.0.

Fox did a 1.0/4. Lethal Weapon rated a level 1.2, LA to Vegas a flat 0.9 and The Mick fell 13% to 0.7.

ABC and The CW were both at 0.7/3. On ABC, it was repeats.

On The CW, The Flash slipped 13% to 0.7 and Black Lightning lost 25% of its premiere score for a 0.6.

Univision was at 0.5/2 and Telemundo at 0.4/2.

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.