Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Hearty ‘New Amsterdam’
NBC won a soft night for ratings, taking the Tuesday title with an assist from New Amsterdam. NBC’s 0.8 in viewers 18-49 and 4 share, per the Nielsen overnights, bested the 0.6/3s put up by ABC, CBS, Fox and Telemundo.
The CW and Univision both rated a 0.4/2.
On NBC, The Village did a flat 0.6 and The Voice slid 10% for a 0.9, then New Amsterdam went up 33% for a 0.8.
On ABC, American Housewife got a flat 0.8 and was followed by a Bless This Mess repeat. Black-ish lost 13% for a 0.7 and a new Bless This Mess dropped 22% from its premiere for a 0.7. The premiere of docu-series 1969 did a 0.4.
CBS had NCIS reruns before NCIS: New Orleans was down a tenth at 0.6.
Fox had MasterChef Junior at 0.7 and Mental Samurai at 0.5, both series flat.
La Reina del Sur did a 0.7 on Telemundo, off from its 0.9 premiere.
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On The CW, The Flash lost a tenth of a point for a 0.5 and the Roswell, New Mexico finale scored a level 0.3.
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.