Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With ‘Chicago’ Dramas

NBC earned the top spot in Wednesday prime, the Chicago shows leading the Peacock to a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That easily beat the 0.7/4 that CBS scored.

Chicago Med and Chicago Fire did 1.2s and Chicago P.D. rated a 1.1. All three were up a tenth over last week.

On CBS it was Undercover Boss and Criminal Minds at 0.7s and SWAT at 0.6. All three were flat.

ABC got a 0.6/3 and Univision a 0.5/3.

ABC had The Goldbergs down 13% at 0.7 and Schooled at a flat 0.6. Modern Family got a 0.9, off 40% after last week’s hefty Jeopardy! lead in, and Single Parents lost 33% for a 0.6. Stumptown dropped 20% to 0.4.

On Univision it was 0.5s for Ringo, Amor Eterno and El Dragon. Ringo and Amor were level and Dragon gained a tenth.

Fox and Telemundo both scored 0.3/2s. Fox had Flirty Dancing at 0.4 and Almost Family at 0.3, Flirty up a tenth and Family flat.

On Telemundo it was Decisiones and La Dona at 0.3 and El Senor de los Cielos at 0.4. All three were flat.

The CW scored a 0.1/0. Special The CW Dog Honors and Nancy Drew both had a 0.1. Nancy lost a tenth. 

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.