Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With 'This Is Us’ Return

NBC won Tuesday’s ratings race, with This Is Us putting up a healthy number to pace the Peacock to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That squeaked by the 1.0/5 tallied by ABC.

Ellen’s Game of Games got a flat 1.0 on NBC and This Is Us a 1.4, down a tenth from its last time out in November. New Amsterdam scored a flat 0.8.

ABC had Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time at a 1.9, down 21% from the week before. Mixed-ish lost 36% for a 0.7 and Black-ish slid 38% for a 0.5. Emergence dropped 20% to 0.4.

CBS got a 0.9/4 and Fox a 0.6/3.

CBS had NCIS at a flat 1.0 and FBI down 11% for a 0.8, then FBI: Most Wanted at a flat 0.8.

Fox had The Resident at a level 0.7 and Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back off 14% at 0.6.

Univision did a 0.6/3 too. Ringo shot up 20% to 0.6 and both Amor Eterno and El Dragon got 0.5s, Amor flat and El Dragon up a tenth.

The CW posted a 0.5/2. Arrow shot up 67% to 0.5, and the premiere of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow got a 0.5, also up 67% from its previous season starter.

Telemundo scored a 0.3/2. Decisiones, La Dona and El Senor de los Cielos all got 0.3s. Decisiones and La Dona were flat and El Senor 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.